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clarkjohnsen wrote:

OK, sure -- but why do they "need" that? Mainly, to indulge readers, who demand a vocabulary and tangible numbers. You and me can go along merrily discussing what we hear and make ourselves understandable, but the vast majority of yokels out there seem to need fixed verbal pegs to hang onto. I don't blame the writers.

Unquestionably the writers address the demands and write for a lower possible consumer denominator. This is kind of the rule of mass-propaganda that even Adolph Hitler so brilliantly addressed in his “Mein Kampf”: “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.” Isn’t it ironic that when we talk about the audio industry we use Hitler as a methodology provider? So, from this prospective writers should not be blamed.

However, Hazrat Inayat Khan in his “Mysticism of Sound and Music” did suggested that while tasting food it is possible to detect what was in the head of the cook when he was cooking. So, looking at the INTENTIONS of the writers/reviewers and looking at thier strategic goals it is very simple to detect that the have no noble goals. Well, was the reason why they were hired - juts because they are able to writhe ONLY what they are writing? Have you seen alternative attempts by writers to introduce any alternative or more civilized “language”?  Few years ago Likhnitsky made the only public attempt by introducing his book “New methods of Audio Evaluation for Playback”. No mater how superficial the book was but it was 4345 light-years ahead of whatever the Stereophools writhe. Unfortunately he is an isolated Russian jerk who is going to nowhere besides exercising his restricted ego and his attempts went to nowhere.  Only because he is a jerk it went to nowhere? Not realy.

Could the Likhnitsky-like introduction of new semantic and new language to be successful in today’s Audio? I personally do not think so and should the book was available then it would not have any readers. I told before and I am saying again: the answers about Audio could not be found in Audio. Therefore the entire audio industry, as an organized social institution, is no only unnecessary by evillish.

So, blame the writers? Yes, Blame them! Anyone who becomes the Audio writer is a conformist to the industry's "rules of the engagement" and this is very much two way street…. the writers pollute the industry with their doodles and the industry provides to the writers the UNAVOIDABLE feedback of personal moronization.

Rgs.
Romy the Cat

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