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In Reply to: Not sure I fully agree - should AA be elitist? posted by John C. - Aussie on March 2, 2002 at 14:27:35:
I find elitism to be a big pain in the #!$. Too often it is practiced by someone with lots of opinion but little in the way of proof. I know that most of the "golden-eared audiophiles" are well-mannered and know their subject BUT there is that small percentage who are arrogant in their ignorance AND PROUD OF IT.As a practicing audiophile-on-a-budget for over 30 years, I've seen more than my share of audio snobs. They are enthusiastic to the point of nausea and really tiresome to be around.
About 20 years ago a then friend asked me for my "honest opinion" about his new megabuck loudspeakers. I told him they were fine speakers but sounded like crap because of the way he had them set up. I was asked to leave his house and he has spoken to me exactly once since then. But, boy, could he carry on.
As a tech, I know a bit about the subject of audio equipment and am amused and horrified at the myths, dogmas, and plain BS that so many people, newbies and audiophile alike, believe. Too many do not realise that much of what they hear about expensive audio gear is straight from the adwriter's imagination nor that much of the differences they "hear" between pieces of equipment is nothing more than short memory and the placebo effect.
All that's fine but I don't wanna hear it over and over and over and over.............. I'll just remain a member of the lower class, knowing what I know and being considered an audio barbarian by the elitists and the snobs.
Course, the rest of us will be enjoying ourselves while they work themselves up into a lather over our ignorance.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Not sure I fully agree - should AA be elitist? - danj 17:51:38 03/02/02 (0)
- BRAVO, danj!!!!! <nt> - Jeff P. 08:20:46 03/04/02 (0)
- Agree - Even better said. (nt) - Cut-Throat 18:05:45 03/02/02 (0)
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