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


This 15 minutes of youtube video by "cheapaudioman" say a lot and hide a lot...

He review low cost products ...

His analysis of audiophiles world here seems fair to me...

But nowhere in all his videos and in this one  he mention "acoustics" as the basis of audio hobby, the anker of any system  and gear piece  evaluation and satisfaction...

He  always talk about the gear... Probably acoustics for him as for most is only acoustics panels purchase...

My point is not that the audio world of audiophile is a scam with scammers...

Not at all.

It is ignorance  of what is acoustics basics that makes people victim of their own decisions  and a potential prey for honest or dishonest sellers..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqbFYaJisQ

mahgister

@mahgister You are a theorycrafter and you live in your head. You wrote volumes about BACCH on different threads without ever hearing it or living with it...quite bizarre actually, don’t you think?

You claim to have tuned a 100 helmholtz resonators by ear and put in some seamless mechanical equalization with it, etc. Again, I think you’re full of it,  some bizarre theory crafting in play again...gives you psychological solace perhaps.

I don’t think you’re a dumb dude (definitely not), but, let’s just say you appear to have some ’challenges’ .. You should probably stick with topics like music genres, artist discovery, spirituality, etc where your posts can be enjoyable. Write album reviews or something.

But, this whole "mechanical, electrical, especially acoustical informed controls over our ears/brain/speakers/room relation.." theory crafted broken loop word salad needs to stop.

 

 

deep_333

You are a theorycrafter and you live in your head ...quite bizarre actually, don’t you think?... I think you’re full of it, some bizarre theory crafting ... You should probably stick with topics like music genres ... But, this whole "mechanical, electrical, especially acoustical informed controls over our ears/brain/speakers/room relation.." theory crafted broken loop word salad needs to stop.

I can't imagine what @mahgister wrote that would upset you so much, but I think he should be welcome here.

the adage you get what you pay for is generally true, however there are certain high-end brands were many dollars spent on the look of the case.

 

however, we have direct experience in testing different reference amplifiers, 

we tested the original Parasound jc 1 vs Elecrocompaniet aw400s

vs chord spm 600s vs chord spm 6000

these amplifiers were all at very different prices and employed very different technologies and topologies 

jc1 class a/b 10k a pair

aw400 class a/b 14k a pair

on a direct comparison the elecro amplifiers were dramatically better sounding

then the chord starter Monos were even better faster cleaner and more dynamic 16k a pair

then the chord reference mono blocks 32k a pair 

 

these were the best of all with the widest and deepest sound stage that made the KEF blades come alive

 

Dave and Troy

Audio intellect NJ

 

 

 

@mahgister You are a theorycrafter and you live in your head. You wrote volumes about BACCH on different threads without ever hearing it or living with it...quite bizarre actually, don’t you think?

Probably because you never read a book about acoustic you cannot imagine that reading his  many articles about acoustics i learned something...Probably you think Choueiri is a seller of gear...

It is a physicist and an acoustician not a seller of gear...(even if he own patent about some for sure but i was interested by the scientist not the gear only )

You are if not an ignorant pushing sarcasms , a bad faith interlocutor here, you just suggest that  to understand an acoustician argument we must buy a product...

I dont need to buy BACCH to understand what this acoustic revolution science means ...

I even use some of this principle in my own  system by the way (in an imperfect mechanical way but satisfying way)...

I gave many links here on many thread about acoustics articles... You gave only sarcasms...Free insults...

You are in my book a complete troll...

You claim to have tuned a 100 helmholtz resonators by ear and put in some seamless mechanical equalization with it, etc. Again, I think you’re full of it,  some bizarre theory crafting in play again...gives you psychological solace perhaps.

Now you prove to be stupid..

Anybody can go and read about Helmholtz resonators and how to make them in many ways and forms...

I make them one by one for fun and i discovered then after many months what it can gave to my sound experience...

 

Disparaging someone as you did is not an argument it  is stupidity...