Audiophiles on Audiogon.


During my time here, I have found some of you to be too opinionated - like your life depends upon what you think about audio gear. Holding on to one’s beliefs a bit too tightly is bad for the soul.

I was reading some content on the Ken Rockwell website, and then found an article entitled: "What is an audiophile?"

in the article, Ken says: Audiophiles are non-technical, non-musical kooks who imagine the darnedestly stupid things about audio equipment. Audiophiles are fun to watch; they’re just as confused at how audio equipment or music really works as primitive men like cargo cults are about airplanes.

 

Given my time on this forum and a few others, I have found his statements to be true. I mean, if you have an amplifier that costs say, $10,000, and you buy cables for $20,000, is that really going to improve the sound? (make the stereo image more accurate)

Or on the otherside, if you buy an amplifier for $1000 and then go buy the top of the line audioquest cables costing tens of thousands of dollars, then would the sound improve accordingly? After reading some of their literature, I cannot be sure they have an understanding of how electricrity works, much less the intricate details involving high-end audio systems.

And then we have power conditioning to consider. I have done extensive research online and it turns out that if your gear is really "high-end" it should already have a device inside that filters the incoming AC. Therefore, do you really need a power conditioner?

I learned about PS Audio products being spec-ed much higher than their measured performance. This is also true of the audio "power plants" that cost thousands of dollars. No really, tons of money to "regenerate" power with little to no sonic benefits.

Would love to hear what you guys think about these findings.

 

Oh, and high-end DACs?

This thing will outperform all your fancy gear.

jackhifiguy

It is a fact that some aspect of the gear quality can be measured but not all...Why?

Because any piece of gear must be listened to in specific acoustic condition to be judged...

But rejecting measures is irrational, and using only measures is stupid....

It seems people are glued in binary thinking...

Show me a device that measures sound quality and I will certainly get one. Until that time I will use my ears.

 

@spenov

 

hi fi guys listen to the music not to measurements or equipment like your definition of audiophiles, which by the way I don't  agree with.

Exactly and you are right...

But this means listening music and being sensible to the acoustic condition and acoustic environment...

All musician are sensible to the way a chosen instrument will sound in specific acoustic condition...

hi fi guys listen to the music not to measurements or equipment like your definition of audiophiles, which by the way I don’t agree with.

 

@mazian 

I am not sure what a hi fi guy is. I was just making a play on his onscreen name: jackhifiguy. I wasn’t trying to disparage anyone. 

I cannot believe anyone responded to this amateur troll bait. 41 responses in this discussion and the OP hasn't responded to a single comment.  Feeding trolls just encourages them to post this kind of crap.