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In the Thread: Best of the HE2006!!!
Post Subject: How consistant is consumer happiness...Posted by Gregm on: 11/2/2006

 angeloitacare wrote:
romy
if a "wrong" approach does make a consumer happy, so (...) be it !!

I wouldn't expect anyone to argue against consumer happiness even with a "flawed" system. However, I'd say that this consumer happiness would last very little because:

1) the system's "flaws" are different than the previous system's flaws -- which, latter, the consumer had identified (since he moved to another system);
2) the consumer will ineluctably understand the new system has flaws and, with time, will be led to start looking for solutions;
3) If the consumer were "audio-educated" enough, he/she would be able to identify and express these "flaws" -- but more often than not, he isn't, so the perpetual search for "better bass, soundstage, removing veils, prat, etc ad nauseam" continues...

*Identify also leads to correcting, as far as possible, the set-up of the system itself. Express means to be able to communicate the problems to others in order to get coherent support and solutions. 

*Instead, what one usually gets is, "buy a new pair of the latest XYZ Grands; they are exactly what you;re looking for."

This is a very expensive way of educating the ear to proper sound -- or how sound reproduction could/should be.
And, I believe, it's frustrating because few audiophiles are really happy with their system; at best, they convince themselves that they are -- and for how long is this possible before they go out to search further???

after all, there are still a view guys out there, that do not just produce audio equipment only with money in mind, but first of all to get as close as possible to live music, and enjoy THAT !! 
angelo 
I don't know if simulating live music is the primary objective of a reproduction system...
Cheers

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