Surely their agenda is so blatant that a 4 year old can see through it? Unless they can convince a sizeable portion of their readership of these untruths, they will cease to exist as a money making publication.
What amazes me is that so many otherwise rational people can be persuaded by this stuff. One of the big problems facing the industry is that the problems that CAN be realistically fixed already have been... There's nowhere really left to go. I'm not saying that everything is perfect - far from it... But realistically anyone can walk into a hifi store, handover a reasonable but not excessive amount of money and walk out with a very nice system that is much better in every respect than a system you could have bought 20 years ago. if I can use a photography analogy, the next big thing there is to produce a true HDR camera... 16-bit (or even 32-bit) sensor with enormous dynamic range... Equal to the human eye.... We all know it WILL come one day. As far as I can see, there's no equivalent for audio? No game changers... Just incremental nibbling at the periphery of the problem... And this In turn in my view has lead to the proliferation of snake oil vendors... All promising the earth and delivering precisely nothing - because there is no REAL science behind any of them, merely sales spiel and an insecure/desperately unfulfilled consumer base. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
