Why so many angry audiophiles?


Just wondering. Music is supposed to soothe the soul. If you are in reasonably good health for your age, have a good system and good music to play on it you have it pretty good it seems to me. These are blessings! Be thankful for what you got?

Just a thought.  That's how I see it.
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Get most of these guys in person and I'm sure they are largely friendly and interested in talking audio and listening.



That's because most won't be honest in person and tell them how crap their system sounds and if they spent time and money learning how acoustics works and fixing it and not on audio jewelry that does little then maybe it would not sound like crap. Online we will :-)
@afisher,

"Anger is generated in a lot audiophiles when the reality is nowhere near the promise of buying this or that recommended by professional reviewers or chasing recommendations made by strangers without personal consequences on the internet.

It’s very easy to go down the rabbit hole in this hobby and finally coming up poorer and wiser."



Yes, with so much disappointing gear (up to 90%?) it can definitely be a frustrating business to get into.

Far too many rabbit holes to get lost in.



"I have found that buying an entire system that you can hear from the remaining good brick and mortar dealers eliminates a lot of the anger and frustration generated by the hit and miss buying of never heard components off the internet."



Yes that could be a great way to start off.


It’s probably not very practical for most of us here. Not when we might have become attached to some of our gear.

Another issue is cost. If I was to sell off my system I’d be struggling to get £3k for it. I don’t fancy my chances of assembling a more satisfying system with that budget. Maybe, maybe not.

And then there’s that age old problem of finding a dealer that stocks a sufficiently wide range of equipment to give plenty of scope to contrast and compare.

Good dealers here in the UK are very hard to find nowadays (esp outside London).

I personally like the retail chain Richer Sounds and that’s where I would go if I ever wanted to assemble a complete system from scratch again.

Their loudspeaker range includes some of the top models from Dali, Elac, Monitor Audio and Q Acoustics, which might be sufficient for 90% of audiophiles.
Oh our first world problems, LOL!

What always gets me is dealing with sellers on a piece of equipment. You contact them, ask a couple questions and it seems the majority are very stand-off-ish. They hardly give you the time of day. Or they give you short curt answers. I think wait, you’re trying to sell a piece of gear, don’t you think you could be a little bit engaging when you have an interested buyer? Maybe it’s because I am in sales and know how to treat customers. It just amazes me how people are such prudes when selling an item. If nothing more it's an opportunity to meet someone else with common interests. How did we become so disingenuous?