"The Audio Critic" B.S. or what?


Has anyone ever heard of this magazine? In a nutshell, their premise is that audiophiles are ridiculous. They claim that all high-end equipment is marketed to audio magazines and their foolish readers. One particular area they sounded off about was cable and interconnect theory. They claim that spending hundreds and even thousands of dollars for cables is a joke and is a total waste of money. They claim that companies like Kimber are selling us a bunch of "snake oil." I just breezed through a copy and now it's got me wondering if we audiophiles are just masturbating each other with our concepts and discussion of "high-end" equipment and cables. Please tell me this is a bunch of sh*t. I'd like to think that we're getting at least a bit of "high-end" for our hard-earned $$$$
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What's funny is that Aczel has recently called it quits...ding dong the wicked witch is dead? Not yet, but this is good news, imo.

http://www.theaudiocritic.com/
Czarivey, you give Aczel too much credit. The guy is an unsavory character personally and professionally. John Atkinson of Stereophile relayed a horror story regarding meeting Aczel on Facebook not long ago. The guy is a crotchety old asshole.
Aczel is a scumbag. This is not opinion, this is fact. He has been proven to be one whether it's his public behavior by throwing temper tantrums at an AES convention because of the presence of John Atkinson to giving a sterling review of a speaker whose company he had an interest in.

Now, of course there's others who share his same viewpoint, but they are bashing just as much as the industry is bashing them. You call this truth, I call it half-truth. Measurements only tell half the story. I'm sorry, but I don't listen to graphs. I listen to sound and music. But, we a gree to disagree here I suppose.
Regardless, the facts about this guy remain. Which makes him a scumbag. If he talked to me like he did to Atkinson, I would personally knock his old wrinkled ass to the ground.