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"The Audio Critic" B.S. or what?

Has anyone ever heard of this magazine? In a nutshell, their premise is that audiophiles are ridiculous. They claim that all high-end equipment is marketed to audio magazines and their foolish readers. One particular area they sounded off about was cable and interconnect theory. They claim that spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars for cables is a joke and is a total waste of money. They claim that companies like Kimber are selling us a bunch of "snake oil." I just breezed through a copy and now it's got me wondering if we audiophiles are just masturbating each other with our concepts and discussion of "high-end" equipment and cables. Please tell me this is a bunch of sh*t. I'd like to think that we're getting at least a bit of "high-end" for our hard-earned $$$$
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czarivey
5,946 posts
 
Hey Engkirk Thanks for waking this one up after 15 years.
Audiophiles are still super dumb these days if not dumber indeed. Also sorry to see it's going away. Whatever force trying to open eyes of the fools somehow decays and whatever brainwashes same rises up brand new again and again.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

...and that's exactly what's happening in home audio industry and many many other industries full of snit. Same structure. Same pattern of the buried truth everywhere. Can anyone provide an example of major industry that actually truthful? I only know one, but in most of states it's illegal -- prostitution of course -- and even this one has been replaced with 'Escorts' to hide from the real facts.
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geoffkait
23,365 posts
 
Four decades? Geez, he missed the whole thing. There was no high end forty years ago. Oh, well....
rodman99999
6,159 posts
 
IMHO; these two lines from his GOODBYE belong together: "after several years of very little productivity, I have decided to stop altogether." and "it has been a great 38 years!" Again, IMHO: "Geez, he missed the whole thing," is an understatement.
dave_72
1,399 posts
 
Czarivey, you give Aczel too much credit. The guy is an unsavory character personally and professionally. John Atkinson of Stereophile relayed a horror story regarding meeting Aczel on Facebook not long ago. The guy is a crotchety old asshole.
czarivey
5,946 posts
 
Aczel isn't only one. I know of engineers that published their articles towards audiophile insanity, but were bashed, criticized and devalued by large industries that would not like for their customers to know truth.
Please view and judge...
I usually trust advocates do you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woU6_Pexoj0
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