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In Reply to: RE: The poster was asking why audiophiles don't like HT posted by Sordidman on May 22, 2007 at 09:58:37
There is no dispute that audiophiles, for a variety of reasons, have not attached themselves to surround sound. You wrote that the reason for this is a home theater is designed to reproduce explositions, inferring that this is beneath an audiophile. This I disagree with, because, at least for those on this site, explosions are not the purpose of a home theater. Spend some time on the film forum, and you will see that most discussions are relative to foreign and independent films in which nary an explosion takes place.
Contrary to your attempts to align yourself with Mr. Rubison, I do not think that he has ever written that audiophiles are not interested in home theater because people interested in home theater are more interested in reproducing explosions. He has written (I am paraphrasing here) that audiophiles tend to be a codgey bunch, and not much interested in change, and surround sound represents a radical departure from how they listen to music. I am no computer expert, but I see kids I know much more adept at operating computers than those fifty plus year old people I know who never grew up with one.
I think that home theater has done fairly well with audiophiles, surround sound less so, but assuming the original statement to be true for argument's sake, I see no evidence that it is because the purpose of a home theater is to reproduce explosions.
There may be prejudices, such as the one you have expressed, but as is so often true with prejudices, they are inaccurate.
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