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What is wrong with Audiophiles?

Well, many issues. The pursuit after uber-expensive interconnects, speaker cables, power conditioners, power cables can be rediculous. Not to mention Audiophiles who paint the outer sides of their CD's with a green marker. A few days ago I visited a local hi-fi exhibition in Israel. Two of the most impressive rooms where the YG Acoustics with an all NAGRA amplification and the Focal room. The speaker cables in the first room cost $70,000. That was also the cost of the speaker cable in the Focal room. One could buy a BMW or a Merc AMG or a Porsche for that much money. Does this make sense to you? And, lest I forget, I have an Audiophile neighbor in the building where I live. I offered him to borrow a CD of an Israeli singer that I admire. How is the quality of the recording, he asked. "average", I answered. "No, I can't listen to average recordings", he replied. I call that "Audiophilia neurosis". 
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atdavid
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And here is what I mean by the "clique". They can't bring anything to the table, so they cast ad-hominems, strawmans, and deflections.

geoffkaity, if my post was an appeal to authority, then so was Teo's. What was it?  Engineering does not make claims about human performance, those claims all come from other fields. You saying that is a Strawman Argument. As opposed to refuting what I say, you make a deflection that looks like you are refuting my argument, but you are just building a house of stray.

I must say, you are taking the topic of this post, what is wrong with audiophiles to heart, complete will illustration of the behaviour that is wrong.


andy2
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They can't bring anything to the table, so they cast ad-hominems, strawmans, and deflections.
It'd admire someone who can look at himself in the mirror lols.

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mahgister
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By far the majority of our impressions of imaging and sound-stage are the speaker/room interaction (within limits of the recording), so if you don’t have that right, no $ value of electronics is going to fix it.
I am very pleased by this observation because that is the result I gain with all my homemade experiments(tweaks)… My room treatment all in all cost me around 100 dollars in materials of diverse densities including the many dozen metal buckets of the dollar store...And guess what ? With this price I gained holographic imaging, and soundstage from my speakers in regular distance listening and near field listening also...

For all people without big money, you can afford hi-fi, with wise choices in electronics but last and not least room homemade treatment if you trust your own ears...My best to all...

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atdavid
That is because you have low reading comprehension and/or a mental block that doesn’t let you admit the things you often say are patently wrong ... And here is what I mean by the "clique". They can’t bring anything to the table, so they cast ad-hominems, strawmans, and deflections.
This "clique" that you deride has been in existence for more than two decades. You arrived here less than a month ago and seem interested in nothing but argument and insult. We’ve seen this before. In one post you proclaim that you have nothing to sell, then later you claim you’re an industry consultant. You repeatedly demand that others perform scientific, double-blind listening tests to accommodate your sensibilities, but then expect us to accept your proclamations as Absolute Truth. Beware the audio guru. It’s pretty easy to see your charade. Have a nice day.
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