dwc Wrote: > I agree with the above, and I also think that a large aspect of > audiophilia has to do with status. Thus any enhanced product that > SlimDevices produces and labels "audiophile" is not going to be fancy > enough or expensive enough for some people. A lot of audiophiles are > just driven to spend more dosh than the next guy. You see the same > thing across many "gadget" hobbies - the guy with the lightest > expensive carbon bike, the guy with the hand-built custom tube guitar > amp and the '63 strat, the guy with the most expensive sports car or > motorcycle, the guy who buys the newest-latest golf driver every three > months, etc. Those folks aren't really in their hobby to enjoy the > activity, but rather to have the coolest gear. There are tons of > status-driven gear-heads out there, and they're not going to be > satisfied with something other people can also easily have. At some > point, "audiophile" becomes more about financial status than sound > quality.
Since you post this in the "Audiophile" section, I'll just treat it as a flame bait. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
