Julf wrote: > 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.
While that may be true I don't agree that there is any noticeable effect of audiophile silliness on the consumer audio marketplace. Only the high audio consumer marketplace sees the effects of audiophile silliness. About the worst effect that audiophile silliness has had in the consumer audio marketplace is the sales of Monster cables (all the other high end audio cable manufacturers have no presence in the consumer audio marketplace) and surge protectors. Bluetooth speakers and Beats headphones dominate the consumer audio marketplace. 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
