In Reply to: Mid-fi? Marketing snobbery. posted by bartc on May 2, 2012 at 06:42:42:
"Good sound doesn't have to cost a fortune, and paying a fortune is absolutely no guarantee of good sound either! Don't be misled by these snob terms."
All too true!
I just can't, at my tender age, really switch my thinking to the notion that "Hi/Mid/Low-Fi refers to the price rather than the performance. Now the phrase "high-end" does work for me, I think it means costly gear regardless of it's performance. When they get convoluted reason is lost and for many it degenerates to being all about money. Money is simply the LCD amoungst humans and more is good. You can recognize those that have succumbed most easily by their call. It goes: "You get what you pay for." Other field marks include lusting after "designer" products and substituting "expert" judgements for their own.
Oddly enough the syndrome doesn't seem to be particularly correlated with how much wealth the specimen actually possess, it's apparently driven by something deeper...
Of course if one is indeed buying a Stereo, Car, Wife or House to impress others or bolster a sagging libedo then expense really is the right parameter to maximize.
Philosopher Rick
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