mlsstl wrote: > Science is a whole 'nother issue and it seems many in the audiophile > world is drifting further and further from the concept.
Sometime around 1980 the high end audio discovered that the once lowly cable could be magically transformed in a glorious cash cow, a cash cow that never stopped giving. Of course even back then there were many people who pointed out the so called "science" behind expensive cables was not being used correctly, i.e. that once the proper cables were installed in a given audio system any further cable upgrades were just not worthwhile, but the money was just too good to ignore and so the real science was replaced with glossy ads filled with guys in white lab coats, pretty women and "white papers" filled with pseudo science. Then came digital, which BY DESIGN does not behave the same as analog, especially when it comes to cables but, as stated above, the "cable" money was just too good to ignore and so more pseudo science was cooked up to justify spending money on non-existent "problems". So now we have a high end audio world that is almost completely filled with worthless pseudo science and which has been feeding audiophiles this nonsense for quite some time. However the money is still too good and so the nonsense just continues to snowball, growing ever bigger with more and more misinformation. A truly sad state of affairs. 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=101584 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
