Anybode else concerned about the high pseudoscience and BS content in all these magazines ?
The gullible readers buy's this wholesale, thus the lost focus of the whole hi end business . Some manufacturers is as guilty, building very expensive crap with golden handles and tubes that of-course gets a positive review. I wish *real* sound quality could be a factor again, hi end audio is not an effective way to get good audio quality, the system design is wrong from the getgo in many cases. The stuff in my sig is probably 5 times as expensive for it's soundquality as it *should* be for many reasons . The normal brands don't do sound quality as it is not a factor, normal consumers the buy "brands" sometimes they get sq accidentally as it's seems like the op-amp and dac manufacturers is driving the development, it's becoming hard to source crap component's ;). Sadly hi end hifi is status boutique stuff, just like a Porsche or Ferrari the price is a part of the product,everybody want's to be a premium brand . The general design is technically obsolete passive speakers etc. The typical audiophile *want's* stuff to be designed this way audio jewelry rather then performance ;) 5000$ power cords . The future of audio is in streamed PC audio and Networked music players. Combined with active speakers with digital crossovers and digital inputs. Can someone have the guts to tell that story instead of yet another tube amp review please. Off topic sorry for more ramblings: Digital active speakers for home use (there are studio monitors of-course) Has it's flagship brand Meridian, but they are practically alone hence the prices ouch, and no competition if you don't like their house sound. But look at the logitech BOOM it's is technically a similar beast(digital x-over dsp eq)but at different end of the price scale :) so it can be done for very little money. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81346 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
