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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 $$$$
chuke076
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geoffkait
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Four decades? Geez, he missed the whole thing. There was no high end forty years ago. Oh, well....
rodman99999
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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
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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
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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
dave_72
1,399 posts
 
Aczel is a scumbag. This is not opinion, this is fact. He has been proven to be one whether it's his public behavior by throwing temper tantrums at an AES convention because of the presence of John Atkinson to giving a sterling review of a speaker whose company he had an interest in.

Now, of course there's others who share his same viewpoint, but they are bashing just as much as the industry is bashing them. You call this truth, I call it half-truth. Measurements only tell half the story. I'm sorry, but I don't listen to graphs. I listen to sound and music. But, we a gree to disagree here I suppose.
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