Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles

Posted by Eldragon on November 18, 2014 at 09:45:39

First I'll start with latest piece by J. V. Serinus, in "Thinking outside the Niche" about why "public don't care (enough) about the sound, to join the ever-shrinking Audiophile club."

Besides continuing decline of the purchasing power of an average working person (lets face it, the most people don't have enough money) the iPods/iPads, PC's, car stereos...etc offer adequate sound for the majority. I'm not sure if people are even buying Stereos to just allocate exclusive time to listen music? The local Best Buy offers one model of the Stereo receiver. The most commonly offered - and probably most likely purchased - are the Home Theater receivers. So, people are 'on to go' music listeners, or at best YouTube, Pandora "sit at the PC listeners". The Movie enthusiasts.

That brings me to Steve Gutenberg excellent article "Communication Breakdown" where he writes: "Harshness isn't just a byproduct of compression; it's an integral part of the sound of today's music." If that's the case, why would we need anything more than "the adequate" to listen to the, apparently distorted sounding music?

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Topic - Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles - Eldragon 09:45:39 11/18/14 (19)

Logitech - Frihed89 23:39:17 11/22/14 (0)

RE: Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles - jamestavegia@gmail.com 22:55:46 11/20/14 (0)

RE: Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles - fantja 10:30:46 11/19/14 (0)

Re: Steve Gutenberg's article - mcondo 09:02:24 11/19/14 (0)

A couple of things... - mkuller 10:31:00 11/18/14 (13)

Cassettes - geoffkait 04:47:12 11/19/14 (10)

Shill Alert. Machina Dynamics latest product - a cassette player (nt) - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 15:25:39 11/19/14 (3)

Don't get your panties in a twist. We also sell lots of tweaks for CDs. We're very unbiased. Nt - geoffkait 15:54:04 11/19/14 (2)

I am English, we get our knickers in a twist. - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 13:48:49 11/20/14 (1)

For you Brits.... - rlw 08:54:36 11/21/14 (0)

RE: Cassettes - Tony Lauck 13:01:46 11/19/14 (0)

RE: Cassettes - mkuller 09:57:27 11/19/14 (1)

RE: Cassettes - geoffkait 14:57:21 11/19/14 (0)

RE: Cassettes - soulfood 08:24:49 11/19/14 (0)

RE: Cassettes - regmac 07:23:02 11/19/14 (1)

Been there ... done that ... - -æ- 10:11:53 11/19/14 (0)

Excellent! - Winston Smith 14:04:28 11/18/14 (0)

RE: A couple of things... - Eldragon 11:04:47 11/18/14 (0)

RE: Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles - slovell1 10:14:29 11/18/14 (0)

Musing on the two "As we see it" Stereophile articles

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