READ?! Like, a book?
I made I new rule for my oldest boy... He can see any movie he wants, but he's got to read the book first.
Audiophile Ridiculousness or Not?
I think we can all agree that some "audiophile" things on the market are just ridiculous. Ridiculously priced 100x what it should cost just because it's marketed to the elite of audio lovers, the audiophiles.
So I'll kick off this "Audiophile Ridiculousness or Not" discussion with...
A $54 3.15a fuse! Audiophile grade 6 x 32mm fuse.
Thats just absurd right? Who buys this racket?
I think we can all agree that some "audiophile" things on the market are just ridiculous. Ridiculously priced 100x what it should cost just because it's marketed to the elite of audio lovers, the audiophiles.
So I'll kick off this "Audiophile Ridiculousness or Not" discussion with...
A $54 3.15a fuse! Audiophile grade 6 x 32mm fuse.
Thats just absurd right? Who buys this racket?
Realistically, assuming morals rarely feature highly in business decisions, it must be quite hard to sell rubbish. Also, a small business is life-consuming, and who wants to devote his life to a lie? A pretend life is close to being no life at all.
I'd be happy to make the money, and not be proud of it, but only if I could make enough to get out soon. It's the existential consequences that deter me, not the morals.
That and the fear of the next wonder-fuse. Imagine the pressure of trying to improve a product that had no utility in the first place. It must be a very messy and uncertain market.
We could make an infinite list of shame, but these people suffer enough in their nightmare worlds of smoke and mirrors
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I would assess that it makes an audible difference on some people's systems, and therefore for some people it's a investment. Whether it's actually an 'improvement' is something else again ...
The fact that there is a vast array of such items out there says that for enough people these bits of "rubbish" do have an audible effect, for whatever reasons. So, it's really up to audio engineers to design components such that the heard sound does not alter audibly when these "silly things" are applied.
Then, and only then, will this "silliness" go away ...
The fact that there is a vast array of such items out there says that for enough people these bits of "rubbish" do have an audible effect, for whatever reasons. So, it's really up to audio engineers to design components such that the heard sound does not alter audibly when these "silly things" are applied.
Then, and only then, will this "silliness" go away ...
If everyone could make easy money, then the entire history of the cosmos and everything in it tells me that's exactly what everyone would be doing.
So why aren't they?
Easy money is an oxymoron.
The basic erroneous assumption involved is that the sellers of such balderdash have a conscience - they may have had it surgically excised, as it tends to get in the way. Even more pitiful are the purveyors that actually believe in their particular line of phizz for some reason or the other...
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...I will not write my name here...
...I will not write my name here...
That's not required. People are amazingly adept at rationalizing that whatever they do is for the good of someone else. It's a survival trait.
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