no.22 - The Arrogant Audiophile
I am sick of the audiophile who pretends to have the hearing of a dolphin and must listen to his music without distraction in a hermetically sealed sound-proof room.These are the guys who claim you must spend hundreds of dollars on cables and wires to have what they consider a passable system, but when put to the test, they can't tell the difference between their beloved $100 cables and a coat hanger.
These are also the same folks who, for years, claimed you could draw on the outside edge of a CD with green Eberhard Faber Design Art Marker (No. 255) and magically improve the clarity of sound. This would work because... well lasers are red, and that's the opposite of green, right?
These are folks committed to the science of music, as long as that "science" involves jacking up prices of components and does not involve any manner of objective analysis.It's all crock, even this 5.1 Dolby garbage. Really guys, it couldn't be 6 point Dolby? The sub woofer really means so little to you as to only account for a tenth of a point?
Frankly, if I am going to listen to Patsy Cline sing "Crazy" I would like it to be playing quietly on the one functioning speaker in my car stereo, on a fuzzy A.M. station from about forty feet away, as a storm approaches at dusk on the plains.
What the "audiophiles" don't realize is that, day after day, many of us are listening to compressed MP3's on our little white ear buds and we are happy. Do you know why? Because listening to music is not passive. We bring ourselves to the music. The imperfect music enhances our imperfect lives.
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posted by Katsoulis | 2:24 PM
7 Comments:
"Because listening to music is not passive. We bring ourselves to the music. The imperfect music enhances our imperfect lives."
I would say anyone looking to create a system that plays music as faithfully and realistically as possible, who dedicates time and money to such an endeavor, brings quite a bit of themselves to the music. On the other hand, others never question what they are listening to, or on what it is being played on---of course they do take up server space by blogging about it... ;)
dbowker3d, member of Stereophile forum and "one of those guys" hahahahahahahah
I would say such an endeavor, brings quite a bit of their bank account to the music equipment salesman.
people that obsses about the means of listening to music instead of the meaning, message and intensity with which you live that music don't deserve the music they listen to from their overpriced pieces of junk ;)
pay no attention to those that took offence on your article, you hit a nerve there :D
All of our senses have a limit to which we can distinguish certain changes. To my ears, there is a huge difference between 20$ generic ear buds and my 100$ Sennheiser studio headphones. There is also a huge difference between 2 speaker stereo and 5.1 surround sound.
The problem is that, as with all our senses, some peoples are better than others. Combine that with the placebo effect (which can turn a coat hanger into $100 cables) and you have one jealous blogger with a dislike for gullible audiophiles.
"The problem is that, as with all our senses, some peoples are better than others. Combine that with the placebo effect (which can turn a coat hanger into $100 cables) and you have one jealous blogger with a dislike for gullible audiophiles."
The diversity of our senses combined with the placebo effect equals a jealous blogger? That's the sort of ill-conceived logic that causes people to spend $800 on a cable.
Do you think these guys have even half a clue to how arrogant they actually sound?
Why do you care? Your arrogance is above all others! Do car guys upset you? How about ladies who quilt? What about History buffs? Please let us know who has a right to enjoy their hobby? I'm sure someone like you who knows nothing about what he speaks is the one to let the rest of us know!
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