@in_shore ,
“Audiophile’s”.... A group of people belonging to a niche hobby which whom many are easily manipulated into believing the more expensive said product’s are the better the performance."
Easily done by continuously denigrating measurements and trying to suppress any evidence which contradicts the above claim.
For example, can it really be true that the cheapest CD player can sound alarmingly close to the most expensive one?
Ditto for cables, DACs, and integrated amplifiers...
Evidence to the contrary, outside hearsay, is practically non-existant.
For sure many of us have been easily manipulated because we tend to lose our heads in our desperation to find audio nirvana.
What to do?
Music for many is the most compelling, most thrilling, and most unifying (least damaging) way of mood alteration - ok, there might be one other even greater - but nevertheless it easily becomes an obsession we have no wish to be freed from.
We shouldn’t mock our fellow audiophiles for their gullibility too much. After all, how many of us can say we weren’t taken in by the hype at some point? If only forums such as these had existed when I first got into audio.
If somehow, somewhere you are reading this Neil, then I’d like to say bless you and thanks for introducing me to the enticing world of Hi-Fi.
I’ll never forget those days of Marylebone Road 1984.
