It would greatly benefit our hobby if equipment where designed with more science and less woo .
Ity would not cost so much probaly 1/10 , most ultra high end stuff would be obsolote , once reasonable build quality is reached the deciding factors will be features and conectivity integration output power software etc . Audiphiles would not give such a crazy impression listening to cable lifters and seruisly consider the sonic diffrences in AC wall outlets . This would take us back to the golden days before 10000$ speaker cables ,where we talked speaker placements amp power and other sensible things . The hobby would once again be accesible to reasonable people :) So suddenly the field is widened and a whole lot more people could join . Win Win Then we could start to talk about music and actually listen to music and comune about our hobby . A good example is the squeezebox as a digital transport , they are all ok ,we have a lotjfun from its extensive features discovering our music . and its based in its software . I think todays high end is suicide , it getting more expensive each year and atracts less people and is less science based for each year, it turned itself into a cult. Heck just reading about the brand "Audio Note" have probably scared more people away (and their money ) than the sales that brand ever made :) An example of nutty design in high end imo . The mere existence of 10000$ speaker cables probably hurt the hobby more than it gains and scares people away . I do want the old times back when this hobby made sense . I think its time for a reboot :) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
