andy_c wrote: > Archimago, this was a very well-written and well-reasoned article. > Thanks for posting it. > > However, if one were to write a letter to the editor about it, the > letter might be based on an assumption that the authors of the HFN & RR > article are behaving in an ethical fashion, and that the issue is just a > need on their part to be more forthright about the protocol used in the > tests they claimed to have performed. > > As I see it, these people are nothing more than fiction writers for what > amounts to a comic book. Due to various unfortunate turns the hobby has > taken over the years, the success of their business model depends on > their ability to lie to their readers about the efficacy of advertisers' > "solutions" to non-problems. That's what they do. So any belief that a > letter to the editor based on the assumption that they have any concern > whatsoever with the truth of the matter would be naive in my view. > > I wish this weren't true, as it's a cool hobby with many benefits for > its participants. But it is what it is, sad as that may be.
Thanks Andy, I could not have stated my very similar beliefs any better. What troubles me most about the various high end publications in light of their almost universal ignorance (I'm being VERY kind here) when it comes to almost all things concerning computer based digital audio is this: if these so called "experts" can get things so totally wrong with respect to digital audio, so wrong in fact that one cannot be blamed for assuming that they are just plain lying, then where exactly does one draw the line between what is "fact" and what is "fiction" with respect to ANYTHING written about ANY aspect of audio by these "experts". While I'm fully aware that many things written in the high end audio press are worthwhile, e.g. system setup advice, and I therefore don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, I'm now at my wits end when it comes to so many current audiophile beliefs (as given in the high end audio press). Over priced USB cables, 192kHz sampling rate, DSD versus PCM, etc. - the list is almost endless. Add to this frustration the fact that most high audio equipment truly does sound much better than most mass market audio equipment and one really can go mad. Thoughts, anyone? Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99008 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
