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-$$ tier are somehow the misguided and arrogant to boot.
Most of us old-timers disdain the very existence and f the resulting "pissing matches" [e.g another example -- the tiresome, irritating, repeated, and endless cable war threads].
This forum used to have a gentleman's honor code of conduct and posting subject matter --- it's high-time for a re-Genesis of the same .
Price-wise, it generally follows in lockstep.
Okay ..... So what? At one time or another, most of us started in one or both of the low and mid arenas. Its all about the love of music AND the ethereal journey to OZ in this hobby.... It's enjoyment spans all three tiers equally - full stop - without any value judgements or any suggested "snobbery" by the majority of the hobbyists.
The irritant IMO is that most if not all, of these "pissing matches" are actually completely avoidable.
Invariably they start as just a dumb provocation by a small outrider fringe group, who somehow seem aggressively compelled (emphasis added) to assert their own personal anecdotal bias and value judgement as fact. Then comes the invariable predictable defence response to that proverbial "tossing of the gauntlet".
Recent rehashed thread examples include inter alia:
- cheap kit can actually match or even trump quality-build kit; and
- the hobbyists who choose to quietly reside in the upper-$$ 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 .