I'm actually not worried about the proliferation of expensive goods. Financial disparity is getting worse in this world at least for now and there will always be the very rich who will go for price-no-object goods in that part of the market. Sure, many will purchase audio equipment as beautiful pieces of furniture, jewelry, and bragging rights.
But what I believe we can achieve is to marginalize the truly ridiculous even further by shedding light on the nonsense of hundreds/thousand dollar cables, companies like Synergistic I suspect are in decline (notice the gradual decline of ads and website write-ups), reminding people of how technology (especially digital audio) actually works, and questioning the unwise proclamations of the high priests in ways that hopefully allow the silent majority watching from the sidelines to see their ridiculous stance. I think all of us here recognize ourselves as "audiophiles" but we don't need to be "high end" audiophiles as the magazines proclaim. I suspect the "high end" is weak and we can promote a kind of "audiophilia" which can accommodate the "love" of audio and the hardware, but dissociates the claims of sound quality from price, belief in voodoo, and can speak out against the unnecessary/detrimental like MQA. Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
