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I don't even approve of the Recommended Components List.

Man, this whole list thing is a pox upon the hobby.

How many dumb ass audiophiles have you run into who buy only the April or October Stereophile and start shopping?

Add to that the fact that there are letter grades associated with the list and all of a sudden you have a bunch of "audio GPA" dolts who talk about their "all class A" gear and expect some sort of community acclaim for having been able to sign a check.

The "List" does drive the marketplace to some extent, which, to my jaundiced eye, puts too much emphasis on a letter grade and a five sentence blurb.

Similarly, the wine hobby is full of "number whores" who, instead of tasting for themselves, go out and buy based on a rating, too.

Audio and wine are hobbies that are full of people who claim to possess some level of connoisseurship, but then they go and blindly/deafly buy by the letter or the number. What rugged individualistic lemmings!

Pardon the rant.

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