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In Reply to: That's the role of non-experience posted by E-Stat on February 21, 2015 at 14:03:21:
"You don't have the foggiest clue."
LOL - nothing you've said contradicts my points.
"One, however, offers a level of refinement and control - especially at the extremes that sets it clearly apart."
I never said anything different. Having experienced it or not makes no difference if one doesn't need, want, can't support, or even enjoy it. Of course once experiencing it one may desire it and have to have it, some might find it too costly and others couldn't imagine spending one penny more to have it.
Not everyone who buys it appreciates it for it's performance, some buy it for conspicuous consumption. Just like not everybody who does not buy it can't afford it - some people just don't want it.
"Not everyone has the same perceptual capabilities, but they'll never know until they have the exposure."
And I think it's almost hilarious to think people don't buy these things because they haven't experienced them. They don't buy them because they don't want them.
It's quite arrogant and self serving to think people don't buy high performance cars and/or expensive stereos because they lack perceptual capabilities. Some people just don't care and others don't care enough to make the kind of sacrifices required to fully realize the benefits of either.
"Take the straw man approach. That's the role of non-experience."
I didn't say that (your paraphrasing my comment doesn't represent the point I was making), in fact I made it very clear, that conspicuous consumption wasn't the only reason for the existence of high end audio.
The world isn't black and white like you want it to be. One might have experienced high end audio or high performance autos and concluded they don't want it. It's not about those who have perceptual superiority vs. those with sour grapes and no money.
And it's your kind of self promoting ignorance that I find so off putting about in this hobby. It's not good enough for you to enjoy your purpose you need to justify it by demeaning others. No different than those with no perceptual ability and/or no money justifying their purpose by demeaning yours.
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Follow Ups
- RE: That's the role of non-experience - Goober58 20:00:11 02/21/15 (17)
- RE: That's the role of non-experience - E-Stat 20:36:40 02/21/15 (16)
- Denying it is pure ignorance - Goober58 21:42:56 02/21/15 (15)
- Loving another man???? - mkuller 10:30:29 02/22/15 (5)
- When all else fails - E-Stat 14:50:10 02/22/15 (4)
- LOL - nothing failed - it was a perfect analogy just like.... - Goober58 15:15:45 02/22/15 (3)
- Too funny! - E-Stat 15:20:47 02/22/15 (2)
- That's really not true - you are talking about what other people find good enough - Goober58 15:42:39 02/22/15 (1)
- How many times must we ask you to read the article - E-Stat 15:56:41 02/22/15 (0)
- Experience based analogies. - soulfood 09:15:36 02/22/15 (3)
- Concede what - that often expensive audio is a status purchase? - Goober58 12:49:44 02/22/15 (2)
- A rant would qualify as being more than a little hoot. -nt - soulfood 14:08:44 02/22/15 (1)
- Remember that - E-Stat 14:24:01 02/22/15 (0)
- "I don't really give a hoot about the pursuit of the absolute sound" - E-Stat 22:00:11 02/21/15 (4)
- It's a double edged blade - Goober58 23:15:52 02/21/15 (3)
- Nice story Goob - E-Stat 07:12:17 02/22/15 (2)
- You're making my point for me - Goober58 13:12:21 02/22/15 (1)
- But have nothing to do with Kaplan's article - E-Stat 13:15:27 02/22/15 (0)
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