Julf wrote: > Unfortunately facts tend to be useless against faith. I think that it's more like facts just get in the way of making money.
audiomuze wrote: > I think you mean audiophools. No I really do mean audiophiles and NOT audiophools since I don't believe that audiophiles are fools. I believe that the vast majority of audiophiles have been fooled into believing so much nonsense by a very complex system that is working very hard to separate them from their money. Both the manufacturers and their handmaidens in the media have developed a very good method to turn unscientific nonsense and pure opinion into well respected "facts". The objective science side of audio playback and measurement has been discarded in favor of the subjective opinion side of audio listening, thus allowing for unscientific nonsense to become facts. For example, the whole anti-jitter craze was helped along by some "respected" audio guru claiming to clearly hear jitter, which is well known to be impossible by the human auditory system (ears and brains). Now instead of the audio press simply stating this and therefore discrediting or a least disregarding the opinion of this audio guru, what happened was just the opposite - this unscientific nonsense became an audiophile fact - humans can hear jitter. And once this bogus "fact" was established the whole anti-jitter craze was born and lots of well intending audiophiles has been happily separated from their money. In the US the automobile industry uses JD Powers awards in much the same way, i.e. the manufacturers pay JD Powers for an award and then they advertise how they "earned" a JD Powers award. Since most consumers don't realize that the JD Powers awards were purchased and not earned, the system works quite well. In the world of high end audio the manufacturer makes some outrageous claim, such as the Audioquest Jitterbug device really works, and the audio press loudly declares the device to be a sonic marvel and even gives it all kinds of awards. These awards then show up in the manufacturer's advertisements. Again this little system works quite well. 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: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 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=105173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
