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In Reply to: Well, isn't that precious? posted by Dave Pogue on March 3, 2006 at 11:46:28:
There's no question the audio world is littered with ignorami bitches and benighted engineer wannabees but what's troubling about Al's post is he's willing to give those who spend freely a pass while casting stones at those who do so less willingly.IMO spending has nothing to do with whether one is an ignorami bitch or a beknighted engineer wannabee.
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How on earth did you get that out of my post?The one nice thing we can say about kleptocrats is that they are too busy making money to waste time posting drivel on this forum.
Sure you did by focusing your attention on the hard core objectivists and those who believe spending money doesn't bring rewards. You know your ignorant and benighted comments.Of course, in general, I was in agreement with your comments. I just felt you didn't give the flip side of the extremes their rightful due.
The benighted and ignorant kleptocrats with fancy audio equipment do not read or post on this forum, so there is no point in discussing their contributions to it.
Yea sure the non-audiophile doctors, lawyers, pro atheletes, etc. who make up a big share of the high end market probably don't read this forum. As if any audiophile should be jealous of the sound many of these top dollar systems are delivering to their non-audiophile owners.But lo and behold there's a number of audiophiles from the ranks who are willing to argue that jealousy is the main reason why one would criticise an expensive audio system. LOL - as if very expensive poorly matched, setup, selected or just bad sounding systems and equipment don't exist in the homes of the very wealthy.
There's no counting how many times I've been charged with being blinded by envy or jealousy because I claimed a stereo that costed more than mine sounded bad - it's one of the most ridiculus charges ever rendered as if simply because it costs more it should sound better. Such "beliefs" seem almost common on this forum.
It's hardly revelatory to find an expensive audio system that doesn't sound good - in fact it the norm not an exception even in dealer showrooms.
So sure it's fine that you picked on the frugal objectivist and less fortunate - but you did seem to forget those that are or long to be benighted and ignorant kleptocrats with fancy audio equipment.
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