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TAS's latest attempts to hold back the collapsing dam of MQA (here): Got me thinking about just how much this industry is dependent on the confidence game. If you look at the responses to the latter "political" article you find "the industry" (TAS staffer Mr. Quint, Berkeley Audio principle Michael Ritter, etc.) saying essentially "we have the knowledge, the experience to know what is real/true/right, you don't. Trust us". When you don't, well they don't take it very well at all - angry and resentful is the best way to describe their response. They appear impervious to objective refutation of MQA's false claims - they simply regurgitate their assertions and question who and what you are as a consumer. Mr. Quint does not appear to even get the irony of his own place in the industry when lamenting about the allegedly "political" in the consumer response to MQA Being a man of limited experience and means, I am unfamiliar with any other industry that is as dependent on the confidence game as Audiophiledom and "High End" excepting perhaps large portions of my local state fair. I would say the supplement industry (i.e. vitamins, herbal remedies, etc. - at least here in America) rivals it but I am not sure exceeds it. What other industries can you guys think of that suffers this ill? All of them to some degree, but I mean to this extant?