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When I wrote my article: “Disregard the industry participants”

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=930

my primary objectives were exactly the subject of  irreversible and unavoidable feedback-damage that the participants of the industry experience while they do audio professionally. It is inevitable and I have observed in with many people, including my friends, and even including those who come to audio even with their very better intentions.

I do not know who Fremer was in his beginning, I hope he was an insightful and a sensitive man, but nowadays he degraded and his today audio-state could not be characterized as nothing more then “being in a deep shit”. Nope, I am not trying to insult Fremer but rather give him a change to reconcile and then perhaps, who know, might be he can learn something about the “real audio”.

Let me to explain. I wrote 5 years ago at AA (now it all is vandalized by the AA cretins) that:
 
"in the contemporary audio world the audio reviewing process is nothing more then a creation of literature that brings a perception of prospective readers to the limited level of the reviewing components."

Since most of the products out there are juts plain garbage (regardless the price), made brainlessly juts because there was a time for a new model, then a reviewers deal most of his professional life with the very primitive audio. (Although there were some cases when the components were designed and released specifically for the given marketing presold campaigns that public was initially stuffed). Still, a reviewer should find within itself justifications to sell a new product to the public opinion. While this process is going on a person stop to recognize the actual sonic and musical benefits of the products and his/her awareness begin to acknowledge the only deference that might be enveloped into a wrapper of “external convinceabilty” and publishable/saleable evidences. The listening awareness of such a person  slowly begin to operate in a binary hierarchical mode because the person MUST name and express the auditable deference.

In the contemporary audio there is no established mechanism for the objective evaluation of subjective benefits. (The mechanism do exist but it is absolutely not know in industry and by own nature the mechanism is antagonistic to the industry processes) Therefore the “routine audio reviewer” creates for himself/herself a bogus evaluation pattern-surrogate and applies it for his weekly reviews. But here is the catch: the reviewer awareness does not see Sound anymore in it’s disconnection to audio products. Even Sound of the product (as it derives from the previous paragraph) begins to be viewed only in the prospective of applicable marketing reference talk-points.

So, what happens next – instead a person exposed to a machine in order to asses the machine’s humanity we have a machine that exposed to a complier of the algorithms of marketing absurdity. Furthermore, in the long time the person’s audio alertness is wipes itself out. The person stops to recognize audio Realty, substituting “living Audio” with own ego, loosing references to own relatively to audio, stop perceive Sound “as is” and replace Sound with the “sonic evidence of own correctness”. The most primitive of those people and particularly those who have under their “successful skin” the bone stricture of white trashes, self-place themes atop of the pyramid of consumer consumption and believe that anyone who question their sincerity juts jealous of them. The biggest problem at this point that at this stage the person loosing his interest and his references to what the “Truth“ is and spends all his efforts only for supporting his status-quo and the his position in the industry’s hierarchy…

In the Mike Fremer’s case, I relay do not know. Perhaps he is surrounded explicitly by the idiots in his normal live and no one can tell him that sometimes people are so way behind that they begin to feel that they are leading. Mike absolutely was not able to figure out what was the conversation in this thread - no one cared or spoke in here about the turntable and no one attacked Mike’s ownership of his turntable. Still, he feels necessary to jump around the silently observing him people, hit himself in his chest and to spin the stolen turntable like a lasso. Pay attention that if anyone I know see an idiot who run across a room, hitting the wall with his head, dropping the saliva on the carpet, rolling his eyes and screaming that he got a turntable but your do not got a turntable, assuring you that his magnifier glass through wish he looks at his penis has more magnification then anyone’s else magnifier glass, then the only one perception of this idiot could be: the idiots is comply lost his orienteer in audio.

Still, I hope Mike will take advantage of this little accident for sake of own education and would be able to make some self-beneficial conclusion about himself. Mike Fremer needs a serious revision of himself. The smartest audio writers nowadays have learned couple years ago that there is a saturation point of the expressed audio idiocy. They begin to pitch to their readers some “other views” and “other expertise”. I do not feel that they really know what and how to talk to reader yet. They just catch here and there some accidentally-correct phrases without really knowing what those phrases mean. To understand what those phrases mean and how to use them they need another 5-6 years of audio development and their efforts are too weak, steal the tendency is there.

Will that “new vision” (that would no be based on the ridiculousness that Parsons, Fremers, Fradels and Atkirsons have left as their disgraceful legacy) be something where the today reviewers would find themselves? I do not know, this is entirely up to them. Today, the “Mike Fremer as is” is dead and his reviewing intellect works only for the people who shares with him his audio-dead status. Does Mike have any chance? I do not know, but I hope. If Mike will not take advantage of his change to revise his Framers ways then he will die in his many years, surrounded with a small army of stolen audio goods without any realization of what Audio was all about. He will be placed into a casket made explicitly with demilitarized titanium, on a pillow covered by beryllium that was melted by NASSA on orbit and in his hands will be placed a rare staple along with an affidavit that there were only 8 staple like this ever produced in the world. I am sure that this Famamer will be a very peaceful man....

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