Mnyb;689206 Wrote: > One isolated example if you try to be hifi intrested you soon realise > all hardware is 5 to 10 times more expensive than it should be due to > uneccessary over engineering, and even more expensive due that normal > people are scared away from this hoby/cult add the wast amount of even > more bizzare rech that performs worse than a chinese wallmart dvd and > sells for 10000$ > so you are basically conned as soon as join the cult. > So ex cult members feels like they been had :) > > And in general pseudoscience is more harmfull to society than many > people credit, much more harmfull. > and cult are very harmfull to you. > > Audiophilia is an obscure and benign example it may ruin a fammily > economy and some relationships but not your health ( usually ). You > divert resources to crap instead of suporting a usefull industry with > your $ carbonfootprint for nothing anyone ? > > But as it is a subspeices of pseudoscience that are also an informal > cult, it worries me . > > I'm in genral against pseudoscience it is a menace and penetrate > society on all levels and do damage, llok at all the med quakery ! > And I'm also aginst cults as they destoy people . > > No audiophilia is not as bad as scientology or anthroposophy or > homeophaty, or my pet hate creationism or any of that ilk :) > > But it is the same kind of wideeyed uncritical flawed thinking at work > . > > Human decision making and society would gain a lot of you just take 5 > and think about things critically or > sceptically for a while now and then. > > The dark ages is a prime example , they burned people for heressy, we > can get there again really quick. > Imo religion have robbed humanity of at least 1000 years of development > and countless millions have suffered. How many suffers from HIV due the > catholics ban on condoms you tell me that BS is not harmfull :) > > Bs perverts the human mind thats the problem.
I must say that I agree with you wholehaeartedly. As Dilbert (comic strip) engineer is fond af saying; "when did ignorance become a point of view" -- Squeezed_Rotel John Marshall SqueezeCenter 7.3.4 running on a DIY PC, Windows 7 64 bit o.s., with Inguz Audio EQ/DRC. (1) Transporter, & (4) Booms connected through a Linksys WRT54gs router and Linksys WAP54g access point. Using an iPad with both SqueezePad & iPeng for controllers. Transporter => Rotel RC1070 preamp => Rotel RB1080 2 channel amp => Bowers & Wilkins 805 Speakers. Headphone setup: Transporter => Woo Audio WA22 balanced headphone amp => Sennheiser HD800 headphones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Squeezed_Rotel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30002 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93479 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
