5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes.

Jriggy- maybe there is a correlation here, I find jasonbourne52 posts 90% crap!

IMO- there are very few true audiophiles, this is true with the reviewers in the trade rags. The majority of people on audiogon, or any of the so called audiophile websites, and especially reviewers of audio magazines, have poorly setup rooms: wrong dimensions, wrong or no treatments, and with no reasoning on how to position their speakers.

How many times have you seen a pair of $100k speakers positioned right up against the wall, up against the media rack, or with furniture blocking the front of the speaker.

Since being an audiophile starts with the room, if you don’t have the room done right, then you aren’t an audiophile. Maybe you are just a music lover which is fine 

And yet Ron uses Anti-Cables for his speakers that are raised off the floor.  I think his drift into duck dynasty hood has hurt his message.  Generally he is all for the things that most here would agree with; tube amps, good r2r dacs, well placed open baffle speakers with good room treatment.

I think his message here is not very good.  Also, being a super taster I can only imagine how well some people can hear!

@barryinseattle 

Maybe the best 1st post I’ve yet to see. Brilliant analogy.

@aquint: Great post Andy! Your point about Ron not understanding what perfect pitch actually means is one that occurred to me, but left the front of my brain soon thereafter.

I've known only one person who had perfect pitch, an actual genius (Hewlett-Packard---with whom he was employed in the capacity of programmer training---had him tested) who was a music major at the University Of California in Riverside,CA, well known for it's excellent music department. In his first year of Music Theory each student was tested in front of the class at the ability to sing intervals (singing first a tonic, then its 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. interval). After a couple of intervals the teacher stopped and asked him if he had perfect pitch. Kent told me everyone in class turned and stared at him ;-) . He told me his trick: he "heard" middle C in his head, and just worked his way to the other notes in half steps.

By the way, his first favorite composer was Mozart, but just like Glenn Gould came to revere J.S. Bach above all others. When Kent left H-P he paid a years worth of rent in advance for a 3-bd house in Palo Alto (for one person?), spending that year playing computer chess and recording Bach keyboard works on his upright piano. Whatta nut ;-) .

Life is just too short.