Popular Post mav52 Posted January 21, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2018 8 hours ago, GUTB said: I’ve noticed a few trends with online discussions in regards to hi-fi: 1. The large majority of commentators don’t seem to care about better sound. The prevailing belief is that they’ve "arrived" because they have a set of Audioengines, JBLs, Rokits, etc, sitting on thier desk. 2. New people asking questions have already decided what thier budgets are (usually less than $500). 3. A complete lack of interest in the high-end. The key factor seems to be that this is a male lifestyle. As men we tend to tie up our egos with purchasing decisions. As the great majority of online commentary is from men defending thier low-quality purchasing decisions there is no pressure to move newbies into a better starting point. The odd time good advice is given, it’s easy to dismiss it and defend egos. Call it willful ignorance. A dangerous, toxic subset of the ego-driven lo-fi commentator are the militant objectivist cult members; I don’t mean the average objectivist who doesn’t believe in cables or expensive amps, I’m talking about people who think high resolution audio is pure snakeoil. People who say that you can EQ a HD6XX into a Utopia. You have any links to your above topic numbers. . "" large majority of commentators ", whom would that be Shadders and The Computer Audiophile 2 The Truth Is Out There Link to comment
mav52 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 21 hours ago, GUTB said: Just go to /r/audiophile on Reddit. Also Vinyl Engine, Steve Hoffman. CA is on the higher end of the audio spectrum being mostly older men. Head-Fi is a mix of serious audiophiles and hardcore objectivist have-nothings. How about providing and actual link(s) , not a month long task of reading thousands of post on multiple forums. Gee The Truth Is Out There Link to comment
mav52 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 5 minutes ago, realhifi said: Two of the biggest factors in the turn away from traditional Hi-Fi was the invention of the in wall (in ceiling) speaker and Bose. Bose came out with tiny cubes that were sold as “disappearing” speakers and from that moment on the public was convinced you could get great sound from tiny speakers that they could hide anywhere. Women especially saw these new tiny speakers as a godsend and they quickly became a standard and were constantly referenced to by interior designers who wanted to get rid of the “big ugly boxes” (their words, not mine!) that most speaker companies were making at the time. The in ceiling / in wall speaker took this to yet to yet another level in that you barely had to know something was in the room as it blended into ceilings flush and pretty much completely got out of the way as far as interior decorating. Aesthetic took precedence over sound and pretty soon you saw larger bookshelf or floor standing speakers only in houses where, you guessed it, audiophiles lived. This change has happened over the course of the last 30 odd years as the first in walls were marketed around 1984. Anyone that doesn’t think this has been a sea change in how Music is listened to in the home has not been paying attention as it has become THE standard in new home construction. Now it is little wireless speakers that are being touted as the answer with brands like Sonos and (again) Bose leading the charge. Trying to go backward to a time when you walked into a “stereo” shop and saw literally dozens of choices of boxes in many different price ranges is just not going to happen. The majority of the public has moved on from those days and I really can’t imagine that it will change as the industry moves forward. Ok its like your saying, blame it on the wifey acceptance factor for the downfall of Hi-Fi , makes one think outside the big old speaker box. The Truth Is Out There Link to comment
mav52 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 52 minutes ago, mansr said: Why would anyone let an interior designer select their speakers? The ultra rich that have more money than sense. The Truth Is Out There Link to comment
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