The Insane World of High End Audio! Is it All a Scam?

I’ll put my point more positively:

Sometimes we benefit from reviewers who translate their experience into tools, techniques, and vocabulary which can help someone who also plans to learn and then listen and experiment for themselves.

We are in agreement about that, I assume.

"I thought Randy's video was ridiculous and the comments worse. He's just playing to his crowd, stoking resentment, cynically trolling for clicks."

 - @kerrybh

Bingo

I’ll put my point more positively:

Sometimes we benefit from reviewers who translate their experience into tools, techniques, and vocabulary which can help someone who also plans to learn and then listen and experiment for themselves.

We are in agreement about that, I assume.

Well said i agree with your common sense yes...

But my point in this thread as a motive, is that all reviewers, of high end gear or low cost one, minimize or put acoustics knowledge under the rug...

They must sell first, then they must inform about a piece of gear.....They are not there to spoke about acoustics...

When they review gear they do it in the same room they own not in a dedicated room for a specific system...( ASR for example even review speakers borrowing often only one not a pair and they reduce acoustics to some digital measures, and Jay put all speakers in the same acoustic not so well controlled environment)

Then my point is : all reviewers do not help us to inform ourselves about our own basic ignorance...

Anyway most reviewers associated acoustics knowledge in audio to panels, end of story...

As an exemple: if i ask Jay or cheapaudioman

"how did i improve imaging and soundstage in my system with this dac, pre-amp,amp speakers?"

The probability they recommend me a new and better piece of gear is very high?

They probably ignore how to create a good ratio between ASW and LEV, if they even know what these acronyms means ?

 Thats my point...

 It is not that we are scammed by sellers in audio, we are all  scammed by our own ignorance...

Scapegoating someone because he sell low cost Chinese products or because he sell very high end costly product will not change truth and reality...

cheapaudio man is a savvy individual and not honest in my experience, he does what he thinks is best for his business to thrive. 

The more one pays the fancier, bigger, heavier, etc things become but that does not always mean better. Some gear is ugly, some artwork, and some really like the artwork which is fine as long as open minded enough to know what you are actually paying for.

Some just like to buy it to stroke their egos as well, pretty obvious on this forum and elsewhere. I have meet meany very wealthy people and the only ones I actually liked where down to earth and did not own exotic things to show off, including a multi billionaire I went to dinner with. He was wearing jeans, a flannel shirt and probably $50 shoes.

But again, if one has the means and the desire, go for it, fine with me, I do not have the means nor desire even if I had the means. I like making things work on a DIY and tight budget then being better than most any system I have ever heard.

Rick