jh901 wrote: > Why are you here? > > In any event, how is that you have arrived at such a state where you and > you alone are in a position to tell us which speaker manufacturers are > legit? > > Have you read anything about the guys running Magico? Or YG? Or > Wilson? > > Your focus on the top of the hi-end, which you have no doubt never heard > in your own listening space (if ever), is misplaced. > > I do hope you feel better though.
A better question is why ARE YOU here? As I've stated before this a public forum and as such we (i.e. the members) are not beholden to anyone. Sure some of us can get a bit snippy every now and then but usually there are few personal attacks. You (jh901) react as if everyone is attacking you personally but that is not the case. For the most part many of us are just a bit puzzled as to why you accept all the audiophile BS hook, line and sinker. All we are trying to do is point out some of the shortcomings of the high end audio world. And many of us are doing so because of many years of experience playing the audiophile game. I'm quite certain that the $185,000 top of the line Magico speakers sound absolutely fantastic but I'm also quite certain that the $25,000 Vandersteen Model 5A Carbons sound 99.9999999999% as good. And if that 0.0000000001% improvement costs $160,000 than I, for one, don't much care about how much I'm missing. I'm also very aware that just about every enthusiast hobby, be it audio, wine, cars, bicycles, boats, etc., comes under fire for the outrageous prices at the high end of the hobby but that is the price one pays for being an enthusiast. What you see unfolding in the threads on this forum is just what happens when enthusiasm meets with some common sense. Even with that said there is a difference between high priced equipment and high priced rip-offs. To many of us here the Magicos walk a fine between being money well spend and just a rip-off. Unfortunately the high end audio world is structured so that it is very difficult to find out whether or not high priced products are really worth their asking price. Forums expose those shortcomings and have provided me with more useful information in a few short years than I ever learned in over 25 years of being an audiophile. So now for me "blind faith" is the name of rock band from the 1960s and not the way I approach audio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
