ralphpnj wrote: > 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.
I mostly agree, but then there are the vinyl hipsters (who will soon move on to cassettes), but also a significant group of young, clueful people who actually listen to flac and high-bitrate lossy formats, on reasonable gear, but would never dream of paying $100 for a cable. They are the ones who suffer from the effects of the audiophile silliness in the marketplace. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 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
