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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™
Post Subject: I can't really dissagreePosted by Dominic on: 10/15/2006
It can be a bit difficult to get across the full breadth of one's meaning. I had a few perspectives in mind when i wrote the last paragraph, one being the (i don't want to sound too pretentious, but for lack of a better word) enlightened audio consumer, and the other being the, as you so succintly put it: "the audio users who generally are not really audio-intelligent", but i spoke only to one of them, the former. In the case of the latter i was thinking that discouraging interest mightn't be such a bad idea because the dynamic of the unwashed customer and the oily system leads to crap product, as we know. We can't very well eliminate the audio market as it stands, mostly due to size, but there are socio-economi-political reasons that would make it difficult as there are a lot of minds to change at a very basic level.
The flipside is that one could just plain ignore the whole crappines and focus on doing the best one can.
tell me though, how is the high end's idea of better audio different from say the car industry's idea of
the car you need? It would be nice if audio could be a beacon of sanity in the world of consumerism but it's no island as far as that goes.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site