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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Audio critique – open your mind!
Post Subject: Re: Different question – different answers.Posted by yoshi on: 6/24/2006
 Romy the Cat wrote:

What is the difference in audio? You spend day of you live in your listening rooms trying to make that cable elevator between your phonostage and cartridge to “sound better” and someone after listening your setup inform you that your cartridge loaded insultingly sharp or your loudspeakers have midrange driver that does not fire up. Does it mean that your ego hurt so hard hat you should put in your will a vendetta obliging you children to kill all me children? Doesn’t it mean that you should take advantage of learning something and do not waste your time in the unfruitful actions?



In case of fake stamps or self-contradiction in a story, it is rather easy to point out how it is so by introducing an evidence.  In case of audio, usually there's only his system/result that is present.  When one points out what's wrong with the system/result, most likely the owner doesn't get what that criticism means until he actually listens to another system/result that doesn't have that particular problem.

Same thing with your website or your opinion.  If the reader has some experience and understanding of audio, he may realise it's not a bogus but a serious attempt to achieve a serious result, but unless he is already deep into a similar pass, it is almost impossible for him to realise what can be achieved without actually listening to your system/result. 

So unless you can actually show him a better result, your criticism is pretty much wasted.  I agree there are cases that their mind is so fixated on their own system/result, they won't accept any criticism even after being presented with a better system/result, but that's their own problem.

Yoshi

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