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slowmotion wrote:

Alltough I understand both the scepticism against both the so-called DIY-movement and the audio industry (the industry is a many headed monster, tho - without the industry I/we wouldn't be here ) , I strongly agree with Guy's statement here; the main reason I and many others DIY is that 99% of the comercial equipment is of no use to me/us. I have a need for the music in all it's glory, varts and all, to be delivered to me in the living-room . I don't know of much commercial equipment that will help me have that. Some comercial tools are very helpful, but , lets face it, most comercial stuff is dead, if seen in a musical sense.

A “quality” of audio installation, would it be commercial or DIY, reflects only a level of the listener’s evolvement into audio demands and in music reproduction…. and NOTHING else. Audio might be only as good as the person can appreciate it. I know, a lot of people believe that “quality” of audio is restricted by exposure or finance but it is incorrect. We peruse in audio the virtual reflections of our perception how music should sound. What I learn was that it is not the capacities to accomplish the task but rather the totally absurd and primitive reference points of those virtual reflection prevent audiophiles to “get” sound in thier installations. I do not hate how most of the audiophiles’ system sound but I hate when audiophiles think or talk about audio and consequentially thier system sound according to what they have in their audio-empty heard…

An average DIY person spends huge amount of time and effort to conquest the technicality domain but it always happens with very sever compromise of that “virtual reflection reference point”. The commercial audio has own problems. Seemingly everything should be OK with the reference points among the professional manufacturers and they should be more progressed and developed audio thinkers, yes, sounds as it should be…. However, in reality the 99% of them are just accidental ignorant Morons who are completely clueless and with no real motives to do what they do (beside juts to keep their occupations). Furthermore, practically all commercial audio is preoccupied with prices, amount of sale, cut cost and the rest beauties of “business” where results, solutions and approaches are severally compromised, even it a person/company try to do something more or less “envelop pushing”. This all leads to a situation when neither commercial nor DIY audio has no answers by the means only of being just commercial or just DIY.

I personally observed in DIY the identical percentage of the negative results as I observed in commercial audio. I would even say that the commercial audio has a very slight higher successes ratio. Primary the successes in there derive from the exceptions or accidents. In DIY there are no exceptions or accidents and the successes derive from an evolvement of a particular person. Considering that most of home audio makers are just hobbyists it is not difficult to see what audio they are capable to build: it is not audio but juts Saturday hobbyist’s leisure. Also, some natural flows (there are certain rules) also removes the most interesting and capable DIY thinkers form the view of wide audio public and if a person do have some real home audio accomplishment, practical or theoretical, then you hardly would see the person in the audiophile circles as that circle become too primitive.

So, we are taking only about an audio solution that “fits a shoe”. Did it come from the commercial or from the DIY world is completely irrelevant, at least to me. I would personally prefer to deal with commercial “shoe fitting product”. Why? Because it leaves more time for the Real Audio. As far as I concern the Real Audio starts when the playback is done, up and running…

PS: there was my thread-rant about the DIYers with the name: “About moronity of DIY Audio movement.”

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