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Stereophile and the love of hotel decor

I often appreciate the Stereophile review of industry shows but one thing that always bothers me is the choice of images. They often lead with a full-system image which is usually 80% hotel curtains and rugs.  That is, there's a speaker in the left, the system in the middle and another speaker on the right.  That's fine but if you look at the image as a whole, the area of the image that is covered by gear is about 20% or less.  The rest is invariably 1980's hotel curtains and rugs.

Once you see it that way there’s no going back, your eyes see the curtains and rugs forever.

I really wish they’d focus on more interesting close-ups or even montages.

erik_squires
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rx8man
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I'm contacting stereophile and the hotels to put an end to this visual annoyance.

ghdprentice
6,435 posts
 

@erik_squires 

 

You know after looking at that photo you posted. It has all contradictory scale component. The lamp would normally be 5’ high?, a normal hotel window starts three feet above the ground. All that is different than the scale implied by the power strip. 
 

 

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rocray
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1980’s hotel curtains sound better than anything made today. 

erik_squires OP
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1980’s hotel curtains sound better than anything made today. 

That's just because that's all you are used to hearing.  If you heard 1970's curtains you'd realize what crap all other curtains are.

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mahgister
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People are ignorant of Art Deco years and how acoustically good are curtains designed by the years 1910 till 1935...

 

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«Utopia is a recipe that decrease a lot by cooking time, then it take a huge amount to begin with »-- Groucho Marx 🤓

 

 
 

 

 

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