Julf wrote: > To quote one of my smarter friends: "People engage with music for a huge > spectrum of reasons, some more consistent with the artist's motivations > and intentions than others. There absolutely is a "wacko nosebleed > contingent" of "audio enthusiasts" for whom reason has long-since left > the building and who are engaged in delusional imaginings about things > and effects which cannot possibly exist in either this world or the > next. This behavior is strongly encouraged by a relatively small segment > of the equipment suppliers whose guile and cunning would make PT Barnum > die of envy. But "disgustibus non disputantum" - those two communities > have agreed as consenting adults to reciprocate with each other to their > apparent mutual satisfaction, and as long as they don't scare the horses > and exhibit a modicum of decorum, the hyperventilated ravings in the > audio rags can be quite amusing. To the degree, however, that the > success of this market manipulation flows downstream such that it > impacts the availability of high-quality, rationally-priced audio kit > for those of less blingful means, that becomes a real problem."
I think that this is good time to once restate how the world of consumer audio and the world of high end consumer audio revolve around completely different suns. While the high end audio world wrings their collective hands over things like DSD vs. PCM, standard resolution vs. high resolution, USB vs asynchronous USB, flac vs. wav, etc. the consumer audio world listens to mp3s of dynamically compressed music on their smartphones streamed via Bluetooth to a set of Beats headphones, that is when their not listening to low bit rate mp3 streams from Pandora. Once the gray haired middle aged old farts who are the present day high end audio consumers die off so will high end audio. Consumer audio long ago won the war it's just that no one has informed the high end audio world of this simple fact. 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=104401 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
