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I have writhen about it on a past and I would not go over it again:

http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=976

However, in the thread that enumerates the most appalling audio types I could not do not mention the DIY type.

To make the long story very short: a progress in audio could be determined ONLY by deepening of musical evolvement of the individual who does Audio. Audio DIY movement (as a structured generality) and the 95% of DIY individuals have no distinct interest in musical advancement. DIY audio is VERY simple and everything that you do “works”. How to assess the worth of that “working”? Here is where “something else” should come to the picture and unfortunately most of the DIY people do not have that “something else”…

I have seen many well experienced DIY people who would go into unspeakable death pontificating about the screen currents,   biasing methods, nature of transmission lines in cable and inner-molecules interaction is speaker’s diaphragms. However, in most of the cases all of their techniques are bounded to their underdeveloped understanding of sonic consequences and not bound to their ability/desire to USE the advances of their audio for something more then audio itself.

So, most of the DIYers, probably the 95% of all among those that I have seen, are juts too primitive listeners and have too dull musical interests. Sure, some of them can micro-solder with their eyes shot and holding the solder guns in their left toe. However, all those DIY-only skills have zero value within my coordinate system of the things that are absolutely essential for Real Audio. DIY people do not make better audio because DIY concept does not include definition of superiority of real audio accomplishments (that might viewed ONLY in context of musical evolvement).

There is a difference between building Sound and building a DAC, building a speaker or building a listening room. DIYers do not look at Sound as a Tool for something else but rather they look at sound as an Article of Trade, sort of a variable that might be played with in order to justify their audio self-amusement. There is nothing wrong with DIY audio as hobby. There is nothing right with Sound in the rooms of the DIY people who understand audio just as hobby….

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