Acoustic matter....
And our own discriminative perceptive power must be EDUCATED by acoustic...Our listening "taste"or experiences are the result of a personal specific history.... Not like crocodiles an INNATE taste.....
If our alleged "taste" are not educated by our own experiments we are only mere conditioned PASSIVE customers ... I am not one...
"as the article states" deceptively alluding to the consumerism mantra and alleged "taste" :
The important words here is : "IF YOU ARE SHOPPING"...
I dont shop i have made listenings experiments in the three working dimensions of audio...Especially acoustic....
I dont need to shop and upgrade chasing my tail.... Music is also sound but sound is not music....
This article is simplistic...He speak about gear not about acoustic embeddings for ANY gear ... and directed toward consumerism not knowledge and experiments and experience in embeddings controls...WITH A COMPLETE UNDERESTIMATION of acoustic for the benefit of consumerism...
The author even spoke of the way electricity travel in cables...Ridiculous because the effect of different cables choice on sound experience dont measure up to acoustic tremendous impact... This author is not even wrong...Like String theorists...
That says all....
The only important words here is : "if you are shopping"....
What about how to embed properly the gear we already own ?
How to listen to the gear we already own in an untreated and uncontrolled room?
NOT A WORD about that...
Debates in audio reflect most of the times ignorance...Especially of acoustic impact...
I apologize for my rant but anyway it seems i am one of the very few here who know that....am i nut? i listen to my 500 bucks system amazed by general ignorance and price tag conditioning...
I never read audio articles anymore guess why?
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If you’re shopping, do read the reviews, but do, also, understand that the reviewer is listening on his system, in his room, with his own set of concerns and listening biases, and use him to rules thing OUT of consideration, but never finally in.
In the end, you are the only person whose opinion matters.
Now, go to your listening room, turn on your system, sit down in your favorite spot, close your eyes and...