drmatt wrote: > Personally I am ambivalent about this. I don't much care if people want > to buy esoterica that offers whatever improved X or Y or in fact nothing > at all but a sense of style, or who want to tweak all day long. No one > got hurt, no one went broke, and worst case scenario if someone woke up > with a pile of esoterica and decides they really can't tell, actually, > after all, it only takes a few hours with eBay to liquidate the lot and > you've lost a few quid and had some fun and then got bored and moved on. > Just like most hobbies. > > Each to their own.
I totally understand where you are coming from, and you are of course right on many levels. Unfortunately I still naively believe our civilization (for whatever is is worth) has gotten where it is thanks to science and rational thinking. Giving in to the "my subjective opinion is just as valuable as any expert opinion, and I think it is magic and unicorns that make things work" is kind of stepping back to the Middle Ages. Yes, hifi really is a silly hobby that has no impact on what happens to the world, but it is also not rocket science, so there is no reason to entertain superstition and pseudoscience. I know that makes me a grumpy old man - Hey! Get off my lawn, kids! "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106252 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
