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


I think if we are going to keep this hobby accessible, and meaning anything we need to get rid of the expression "high end." In particular, lets get rid of the idea that money equals performance.


Lets get rid of the idea that there's an entry point to loving good sound.
erik_squires
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.
People in general need (instinct?) to categorize everything into neat little boxes. In our culture high end equates to expensive. The same occurs with "high-fidelity" .. hi-fi, mid-fi, low-fi. It's what we do.