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Washington Post Article

Just wanted to alert members to an article appearing in the Style section of today's (6/13/01) Wash. Post.It is one of those articles that seems to be recycled every few years ridiculing the excesses of the audiophile community. As is typical it focusses on the bleeding edge fringe of the hobby, profiling a man who is at $140K and counting,is obssesed with stopping hum being produced by his fridge. The article includes some quotes from Deja Vu Audio pointing out to the reporter a $10k turntable and a pair of speakers with "magnet-suspended" tweeters. Just what we needed! My girlfriend described the article as a disturbing glimpse of what I might become. (My system is circa $10K in total.) Thanks again to the mainstream media for shining a light on the seedy underbelly of the audio community.
128x128jond
metaphysics
192 posts
 
Albert Porter, will you be inviting the reporter back to the big party?
wirehead
140 posts
 
Jond got it right, shining the light on the seedy underbelly. Like any hobby some people don't care to understand. The only reason I would throw myself out of an airplane voluntarily is in case I really needed to know how to it, so I know nothing about parachuting, the thrill and the feeling.

I noticed the author liked what he heard but didn't choose to compare it to a Circuit City system, probably wasn't the purpose of the article but might have shed a little more light on things. The subject in question was single, had a good job and probably lots of free time - could have bought a helicopter but decided on a stereo, oh well, chacon son gout.

I think the purpose was to show that computer geeks come in different stripes and I'm one of them. Ya gotta admit, sitting in a comfortable chair with a drink in one hand and a cigar in another ain't exactly one of the most exciting avocations.

Now that Levinson cat, Kim Cattrall and cds are bad for your health? He's gotta be out there. Stereogod.
wjones7412
22 posts
 
people actually take the washington post seriously? I'm pretty far left and I still can't bring myself to read that poop! give me the NY times any day!
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dweller
3,781 posts
 
Old timers like myself keep things in perspective by removing a zero from a system's total cost. That way we understand what's really going on. If I spend say $25,000 on my system (in today's money), I remove a zero and it becomes $2,500 (it's value in money when I was growing up).
Remember: It's not the amount of money you pay for something -nominal amounts change over time; What counts is the amount of time it takes to earn enough to make the purchase. This is how to gage an item's cost (an hour of life is constant).
whatjd
1,139 posts
 
Wjones7412 is right! I haven't taken the Washington Post
seriously since a very strange event in my town... I live
in Madison, Wi., and at one time a very nice local bistro,
located on Washington Ave. here in Madison, called itself
the Washington Host. Well after about a year in business,
the Washington Post decided to file suit. To make a long
story short...the business was forced to change their name.
Wow....I am sure a small, locally owned bistro in the
Midwest called the Washington Host was a "real" threat to
that rag.
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