The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity!

I kind of agree especially with the snob aspect, but...the trouble with "hi-fidelity" is there is no comparison implied. Literally anything can be called hi-fidelity, and has been over the years. Hi-fidelity compared to...a piece of chewing gum? On the other hand "high end" implies a favourable comparison to other lesser grade audio gear. You can’t really call something high end if it's in the lower half of all quality levels. I do like hi-fidelity though. It’s nice.

@whostolethebatmobile, yes some form of distinction of accuracy needs to be found but ‘High End’ is obviously flawed (despite what Robert Harley may have written) as it usually suggests that high price equates to high performance.

That is just not true.

Perhaps it’s time to return to meaningful and relevant data and measurements, such as the ones that the designers and engineers themselves use.

Sure it risks us being manipulated or being ‘blinded by science’ but what other sure way of moving forwards is there?

Why let a word knock one around when one can grow up instead?

Why push one's solitary and personal opinion upon others.. as if they have to eat it- and then they reflect it back -- in order to validate the self?

20 years of isolation of persons in social media has brought us to this point...

You'll be waiting a long time, as the isolation of self and individual applied and integrated social media has killed the act and motion of humanity's social fabric.

functional social fabric requires being in the same space and breathing the same air, smelling it, the works. rubbing elbows, seeing the motions, hearing the voice, all if it. Nothing less will do. Millions of years of evolution brought you to that point.

You can't change that in the comparatively microseconds that the internet has been around.

Forums, and the web...by definition... are a communication almost fully without meaning or context.

So we yell louder and get angrier, our sonar pinging harder and harder, but nothing comes back.

In the case of Facebook and google, they get be to the the inter-layer handler, the coloring of the moment and the message.  Danger Will Robinson, danger. See it for what it is.

So we keep having these threads that mean jack and go nowhere.

Each new one more virulent than the last.

Go outside, meet music and audio fans in person. Otherwise you are arguing with the mirror and nothing else.

Human beings require social fabric in order to function correctly.

And this ain't social fabric.  Information? sure. Data? Sure. Social fabric? Not a chance.

Says Ken, who has been aware of the coming mess we are living in now....since the late 80's and early 90's when I moved onto the beginnings of the internet and watched it form - helped it form.

So, Eric (and all)....

you’ll probably get one guy who seems to type some words that are with you. Since we can only get about 10% of the necessary social fabric coming through via the typed word, and we fill in the rest, as it comes from ourselves..you’ll never really know.

There’s a very high chance you’ll both be wrong about the other’s actual meaning in the given proffered text. Just on the one single set of words alone. Never mind the next set of words. Error after cascading error.

The other 99% will attempt to promulgate and push forward their own interpretation -- and zero will be achieved. Isolated boxes individually screaming.

Just like the hundred or thousand other threads that came before it.

Trying again won’t fix that.

Shifting one’s understanding of what exactly is going on, might alleviate it. A little bit. One person at a time. Maybe.

Importantly, since you yourself and anyone reading this is also in an isolated box, it is very likely a case of much ado about nothing.

Same for all the other threads that exist as an argument. Every last one of them. The crying child in the crib is abandoned as the internet cannot provide.

The lesson, the cascade of logic..where it takes you to.. is: leave the escalation and the emotions at home. NEVER bring them to the web. Otherwise you’ve lost before you begin.

Controversial threads are by definition, a meat grinder. A endless kaleidoscope of never ending impossible to stop meat grinding.

Never start them. Never contribute. As... if you do, all you do is toss yourself (and others) into a meat grinder. For nothing.

Hi Fi, Mid Fi, Lo Fi, what’s the diff? 😳