George is that you?
I think the ops "rant" is quite possibly born out of the same reaction that people with $200K+ sports cars had when they came to the realization that some "lowly" pleb, with a $50,000 Tesla Model 3 could clean my clock at the light. How dare someone with less earnings than me be able to "beat" me. ME! Weirdly this afflicts even those that can't afford that $200K sports car. They are still strangely offended by the sudden removal of "exclusivity" of something expensive.
Let's face it, this spills over into the turntable \ CD-Digital argument as well. You may like your $10,000 or $20,000 or more vinyl setup, or perhaps you just envy having one, but I guarantee that a well designed DAC for $2,000 (or less), recreates a far more accurate version of what was recorded. I am not saying you will like that $2,000 DAC more, I am saying that it will recreate what was recorded more accurately, more faithfully, or whatever adjective you want to use. That fact offends some people, and as opposed to accepting it, they strike out and attack.
The op also makes the classic mistake of thinking everyone wants what he wants, which can have some relation to the above as well. Some people want and love accurate music recreation. Some (I would even say a majority) don't, though if they are an audiophile, the will profess up and down stomping their feet that they do, even though, in most cases, they have no clue what that sounds like.
I can't say I have been fond of Pass amplifiers myself, even though I have recommended them to other people. Pass even states he "tunes" the sound for each family, so there goes that whole neutrality thing out the window. So given that Pass intentionally adjusts the sound of his amplifier away from neutral, why do you insist they are the penultimate in amplification?
I think the ops "rant" is quite possibly born out of the same reaction that people with $200K+ sports cars had when they came to the realization that some "lowly" pleb, with a $50,000 Tesla Model 3 could clean my clock at the light. How dare someone with less earnings than me be able to "beat" me. ME! Weirdly this afflicts even those that can't afford that $200K sports car. They are still strangely offended by the sudden removal of "exclusivity" of something expensive.
Let's face it, this spills over into the turntable \ CD-Digital argument as well. You may like your $10,000 or $20,000 or more vinyl setup, or perhaps you just envy having one, but I guarantee that a well designed DAC for $2,000 (or less), recreates a far more accurate version of what was recorded. I am not saying you will like that $2,000 DAC more, I am saying that it will recreate what was recorded more accurately, more faithfully, or whatever adjective you want to use. That fact offends some people, and as opposed to accepting it, they strike out and attack.
The op also makes the classic mistake of thinking everyone wants what he wants, which can have some relation to the above as well. Some people want and love accurate music recreation. Some (I would even say a majority) don't, though if they are an audiophile, the will profess up and down stomping their feet that they do, even though, in most cases, they have no clue what that sounds like.
I can't say I have been fond of Pass amplifiers myself, even though I have recommended them to other people. Pass even states he "tunes" the sound for each family, so there goes that whole neutrality thing out the window. So given that Pass intentionally adjusts the sound of his amplifier away from neutral, why do you insist they are the penultimate in amplification?