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Why are people always getting into pissing matches because they think what they have is better

Luckily I don't see it as much on here compared to other audio websites. I just find it so annoying I stop looking at the thread. There are just to many variables in audio to debate what is better than what. I guess it's just an ego thing that I don't want to take part in.

taters
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zavato
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"Why are people always getting into pissing matches because they think what they have is better"?

inferiority complex
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rja
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Taters, You started some of those pissing matches and caused some fur to fly. Now you started this thread all innocent like.
IMO: You’re enjoying sitting back and watching the pissing matches. Entertainment maybe? I’ll admit it can be fun at times. Yup, I'm calling you out brother! ;^)
marqmike
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Probably because they are grouchy, crabby, and they don't really like to be in this hobby.

They want to have the final word.

They want homage given to them(I don't even know what homage means but it sounds kinda neat).

 It irritates them to hear that their fuses are homely and need to be replaced.

 Manufacturers are coming out with a new model and calling the last model incompetent or 'what was I thinking when I designed that piece of garbage'.

The endless debate about the best scotch to drink when looking up Barry Manilow cd's.

 Some don't have warm glowing tubes to look at.

Having really bad tower power maybe for some. 

Stressing about putting an ugly bowl in between your speakers.

Opening up and looking inside a $25,000 pair of speaker cables and finding there is no special cracker jack gift there.

Realizing that the Roberta Flack cd's will last forever.

Losing ones memory about what comes before an amp. Do I need a pa or not?

'These are just of few of my favorite things'.




inna
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Because deep down they know that their rigs suck. 
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akg_ca
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This hobby has a three-tier hierarchy of audio gear that can be generalized for performance-wise as: low-fi, mid-fi, and hi-fi.
Price-wise, it generally follows in lockstep.

Okay ..... So what? At one time or another, most of us started in one or both of the low and mid arenas. Its all about the love of music AND the ethereal journey to OZ in this hobby.... It's enjoyment spans all three tiers equally - full stop - without any value judgements or any suggested "snobbery"  by the majority of the hobbyists.

The irritant IMO is that most  if not all, of these "pissing matches" are actually completely avoidable.

Invariably they start as just a dumb provocation by a small outrider fringe group,  who somehow seem aggressively compelled (emphasis added) to assert their own personal anecdotal bias and value judgement as fact. Then comes the invariable predictable defence response to that proverbial "tossing of the gauntlet".

Recent rehashed thread examples include inter alia:
- cheap kit can actually match or even trump quality-build kit; and 
- the hobbyists who choose to quietly reside in the upper-$$ tier are somehow the misguided and arrogant to boot.

Most of us old-timers disdain the very existence and f the  resulting  "pissing matches" [e.g another example -- the tiresome, irritating, repeated, and endless cable war threads].

This forum used to have a gentleman's honor code of conduct and posting subject matter --- it's high-time for a re-Genesis of the same .
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