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In the Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™
Post Subject: You got it all wrong.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/9/2006
 Antonio J. wrote: |
I agree with your thoughts. Current High End is to audio like Haute Couture is to fashion. You actually pay for something that a designer decided you may need (in fact he gives a damn if you need it or not always you buy it), and you take it as is, paying a high amount of money. Not the designer, nor the customer know if that thing is really worth that money regarding performance (sound for audio, wheather protection and good looks for clothes), and all you get is something others say is good, looks good and is above all very exclusive, but definitively is not worth its cost for the performance you get. The same way a "pret a porter" suit doesn't fit your body the same way a custom made suit or shirt would, a High End amplifier, speakers or DAC won't meet your objectives to have music sounding like music in your house.
Modern High End Audio is just a high status product, you pay for a brand, supposed high quality materials and manufacturing, and also to support an industry which is flawed from its conception. In this same way, as a mid-market product in audio may fit your needs as well or even better as a high end product, a mid-priced suit at Woolwart can fit you better and keep better your body heat than an Armani suit.
Are there any custom tailors in audio? Would Wilson produce for me something the size and price of the Sophias but without bass port, way higher sensivity and dead flat 8 ohm impedance to be driven with SET amps? I don't mean that would sound as I feel I need, but it would be a nice starting point hahaha. |
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Actually I was not talking about the “custom tailoring”, in fact I do not feel that it is necessary in a large scale. In fact, considering the primitive development lever of the cousins Audio-Morons the custom tailoring would be very bad thing to have. I was more referring to the utopian situation when the Inverted High End stops to produce anything. In the world when there is no audio beside just the “table radios” people are perfectly allowed to desire “more results”. The people’s objectives desire should be the motivation for High End evolvement not the vice versa.
If you list you opera broadcast on your table radio, have civilized reference popints and you have heard the idiocy that the audio propaganda have implanted in your then you naturally never will have desire for “faster bass”, “more air at highs” or “better micro-dynamics”. All this crap does not exist in real world and it explicitly comes to audio people along with primitivism or idiocy of the industry’s assholes who hijack audio from audio people.
The Real High End is not customization but the development of ABILITY of the audio users to profile their audio demands into structured and meaningful requirement. Also it is the existence of an audio industry infrastructure what able to embrace and render this requirement into targeted implantations.
I do not particularly blame the manufacturers that they are disables to make audio with predicable musical and sonic characteristics. They are impotent not because they are bad but because they are the hostages of the very same disease as the consumers are. However, I DO blame the consumers who inept, incompetent and drifty audio consumers who could not even ask common sense having questions about audio. Why do you thon I ordinary call the audio hoodlums the Audio-Morons ™?
Rgs,
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