GoodSoundClub - Romy the Cat's Audio Site

In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Rim drive?

Post Subject: The Fan groups!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/29/2011

Stitch wrote:
Today every Design (even the most stupid ones) will have - or have - a Fan group.

Actually I think the subject of forming those fan groups around some brainless ideas and inadequate results is a very interesting topic. That “family”, communion audio and the buildup of a communion, fake empathy in audio is something that I absolutely abhor. Interesting that marketing in audio is structured to seed those warm feelings of communion successes. In most of the fields BTW it does not work this way. If you go to doctor and he proposes you to implant some kind of metal rod into you bone then you most likely will ask about the material and technology. Most likely you will not be satisfied by a comment “do not worry, it is titanium alloy. Probably you will ask your doctor why this alloy use, want benefit for your implant it will have and how it compete with other type of alloys. Most like you will ask 5 other doctors and read a lot about it wherever you can.

In audio it is different. People tell to each other – it is good because it has silver foil or acrylic platter or aluminum former or gold amalgam cathode. Ironically this expansion itself serves as some kind assurance of wide audio success. I use to annoy audio Morons by asking them “why”. Do not ask them why one “why” but follow up with 3-4 times, asking “why” each of their answer. The point is that most of their “answers” are not based on reasons but are based upon correlation between fan group they chose to be and the literature that the industry pre-develop for them to enable them to join the fan groups. Thos people do not talk but just subconsciously recite the adopted “vows”. The good part is that the “quotations” were prepared to them by industry marketing whores, who in borderline between idiots and lightweight simpletons. So, the digging 2-3 layer “why” usually exceeds the depth of the “conviction”.

The Cat

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site