Archimago wrote: > > We just want enough of a presence that newcomers to hi-fi audio can be > at home with folks who don't embarrass their rational sensibilities and > allow their interest to grow.
+1000 I think thats it , the hobby has gotten so weird that it scares away people . Think about some very music interested person goes to a hifi store then starts to be feed all the BS about magical cables and then see the price tags , they probably back out slowly and then starts running when outside of the door . This leaves a steadilly shrinking group of hardcore placebophiles .. But the die away thats usually the solution . If more rational young individuals can be interested they slowly take over . If we are lucky that new demographic will reach a turning point when it's more money in cater for a more rational pow , Then advertisers magazines etc have to cater to that to make thier money . It will still be biased by advertising money of-course but with less fairy dust and unicorns . I'm not overly confident in IQ test, they only measure your ability to perform the tests if . I'm not convinced that they correlate to strongly to actual intelligence even the idea that it can be understood as one number is a simplification . The fact that it's very hard to isolate cultural bias and education from "base potential" says a lot people perform better after education than before and more than we think are learned skills . It's almost impossible to come up with test that not use ome some education for example they are written in a language or you have to talk to someone in a language that itselfs shapes the questions . Pictograms ? not really the concept of drawing and art has to be learned . Heck some nature people don't even understands 3D perspective on drawings they never familiarised them self with the concept . Some tribes has almost no maths, but we would not survive 5 minutes in the rainforest of Borneo for example . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, 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=103980
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