10 Wonderful things and 10 bad things about the audiophile world.
10 Problems with the audiophile world.
#1 Speakers and amps need to be made synergistically.
#2 Room acoustics are so much more important than they realize.
#3. High End audio companies rarely show scientific measurements. Why not?
#4 Audiophiles have very little knowledge of music production.
#5 The dealer system in high end audio is not working.
#6 Snake oil is not loathed but treated as an amusing possibility for better sound.
#7 Expensive equipment, confirmation bias, ego, no standards, will eat people who don’t like expensive cables.
#8 Very little blind listening tests.
#9 No use of audio files showing differences in components, before and after.
#10 Audiophiles make subjective decisions claiming to be scientifically objective.
10 Wonderful things about the audiophile world.
#1 People who love music.
#2 Smart people who are passionate about the latest technology.
#3 Audiophiles rarely eat people for not liking their new expensive cables.
#4 Being an audiophile is a great hobby.
#5 Being an audiophile is mentally healing.
#6 Audiophiles are trying to make fidelity and quality paramount unlike other industries.
#7 Audiophiles are a strong community.
#8 Samsung / Harden is making lots of money.
#9 Audiophiles are always moving toward a goal.
#10 Audiophiles appreciate beauty.
@mahgister Hey brother I'm cheering you on every time I se you sticking up for acoustics and psychoacoustics. There is a famous story about a recording studio in LA that was very popular they had a box called the "funk box" sitting between the monitors it had only an on/ off switch on it and an input and output. The box had nothing in it but producers and musicians came to this studio for the sound of that funk box, when things needed a little extra something in the mix the engineer would carefully turn it on and watch the producers reaction to the great new sound. |
Great story.... A story with two sides, if someone understand a bit about psycho-acoustics ... A side about the easy way we can deceive ourself, and walk in what the objectivist crowd accuse not without reasons the subjectivist crowd of : victims of deceptive placebo ...
The other side is very different and as true as the first side is true in his own way : sound quality is created by a complex set of electrical,mechanical and acoustical parameters, but it is also created by human biases , creativity , and motivation and conditioned be the moving and sound producing and perceiving body ...We contribute actively in the perceptive evaluation and interpretation with not only our brain but our heart ... It is why wise mothers and empathic doctors use positively the placebo effect to help and catalyse the body self healing process...Only drug company want to suppress it for statistical methodological reason in the testing of drugs we dont need most of the times ... Myself being not a subjectivist nor an objectivist, but being interested by the true core of the sound process , psycho-acoustics, i push myself into ectasy by staying creative , even at the risk or i prefer to say with the profit of the placebo effect, which work by the way in the neural path of the body and in some organs the same way some drug work... It is verifiable with modern technology if we scan the body in real time ... Also sound memory is not stored in a singular place in the brain, as books on a shelves but in all the gesturing body mapped in mutiple layers and in many zones of the brain associated with emotion which is the trigger of musical memory... Viva placebo! If it makes musicians happier and participating they play better and they sound better and even the engineer will profit from it ... Thank you for your kind words ...my deepest respect ...
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#1 Speakers and amps need to be made synergistically. Why "made"? Why not just matched? |
