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Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics

I'm increasingly fascinated by the number of threads that have been created lately by OP's who have joined over only the last 2 months with less than 30 posts that all seem related to the importance of wires and tweaks. While I'm not dismissing the notion that everything matters in hifi (including digital cable), it seems that these topics vastly overwhelm thread topics that clearly would have more influence to hifi audio sound such as discussions of the sonic characteristics of various amplifier topologies, the importance of simplifying the signal path, and identifying fantastic speaker/amplifier synergies, etc...

If some unsuspecting newbie were to stumble onto this forum they would likely come away thinking that a fuse or a piece of wire are the most important elements towards obtaining wonderful hifi sound. This is unfortunate. For example, my discovery of listening to a SET circuit years ago paired with speakers possessing a high and flat impedance greatly outshines any joy derived from identifying the finest digital cable produced by man. I'm simply questioning the hifi priorities that this forum seems to be obsessed with lately.

Is it just me?
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rel
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perhaps the board will advise polyamory with planers, ribbons, cones, and even flaming plasma

while playing Joan of Arc.

Did you mean Jeanne d’Arc?  And if so, have you tried replacing the light bulb?

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unreceivedogma
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@ sns: my bad if I implied that we need a “peer reviewed audio board” process. I meant to suggest the opposite: that subjectivity reigns in a field that claims to have higher standards of critical thinking than what reigns in the audio world, so why don’t we just agree to disagree and get on with audio - rather than as an end in itself, but instead with what it’s all supposed to be designed for, enjoying the music itself?
sns
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@unreceiveddogma, Yesssir!
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tomic601
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@rel Leonard Cohen song, flames involved….
edcyn
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Don't be so serious...  If ya' like it, like it. If ya got the bucks, spend the bucks. Let freedom ring. Or is that being clanged with jackhammer treble and getting stomach-punched with overbearing bass? Then again, maybe we could avoid the agony with AM-style fuzz & compression.
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