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In the Thread: Disregard the industry participants.
Post Subject: Re: Why just the industry, why not everyone?Posted by guy sergeant on: 4/24/2005
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Ok why be so specific. I don't want to be seen defending participants in the audio industry. However, why stop there? What about the morons who are interested in audio and whose money keeps the industry morons in employment. 99% of those people are also misguided fools as well. I get to talk to alot of them. And why stop there? The rest of the human race who know little of and care less about sound reproduction. They're even worse. Don't ever go to them for advice. In fact don't talk to anyone about it. If they disagree with you they are simply trying to mislead you and therefore they should be avoided. If they agree with you they are simply sheep.
Back in the real world, I find that the majority of people do enjoy music but don't care much what they listen to it on. They certainly aren't usually interested in spending large amounts of money on equipment on which it can be replayed well. Most, when exposed to supposedly superior 'high end' audio aren't able to discriminate much difference between that and well designed budget components. The premium usually doesn't seem worth paying. This is why there is a continued decline in the fortunes of the so called 'serious' manufacturers. Most people would rather spend their money on a plasma tv, a better computer, a new SUV.
I agree with this site's ambition to advance the knowledge and understanding of sound reproduction. However I think you're being a little naive if you think that "the concept of “constraints and competition" hasn't been applied to much if not all of the manufactured audio equipment you use. Your chosen CD player, Turntable, arms, cartridges, speaker components were all produced under the constraints of cost. All could probably been improved had more money been lavished on their development and manufacture. Budget loudspeakers are no different. Nothing I know of, that is commercially manufactured, is perfect and therefore unimprovable. The only way to escape this 'industry thinking' is to build all of your own components to your own specification regardless of cost. Where I can, this is what I try to do. This is what you are also doing with your speakers and now amplification. Many users of this site also seem to be doing the same. The only problem I can see in the long term is that as each customises their own system to their own particular tastes discussion of person X's speakers will be increasingly irrelevant to person Y while person Y's amplifier means nothing to person Z. Unless two people are using the same component (or tasting the same wine) their discussion of its merits has little worth.
Most people don't care enough to do this. I don't care enough about wine to grow my own grapes and make my own. (I do make my own beer though!) I don't understand why the audio industry fills you with such venom. It's no worse than the car industry or the fashion industry. It supplies product at a wide range of prices and if a manufacturer is clever enough to produce an enjoable sounding cd player or pair of speakers at a reasonable price they should be congratulated not despised. If you really want to get angry with the audio industry have a go your homeboys, Bose, the ultimate triumph of marketing over content/quality.
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