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RE: Interesting analogy

I am definitely not a pacifist in defense of facts and objective information. Which puts me in an inherently hostile environment as an audiophile.

The high end audio world has always been rife with misinformation, urban legend and just plain antiscientific beliefs. But now it is the dominant force in high end audio. As much as I like the idea of "live and let live" I think there is no room for it on public forums where so much of what audiophiles believe about audio is disseminated. There are two reasons for this.

1. Perception is taken for reality. Tell a lie often enough and if unopposed it will eventually be accepted as the truth. If the only voices that are represented in audio are the voices of misinformation, urban legend and just plain anti-scientific bullshit for lack of a better word then that becomes the "reality" that is taken at face value by the general audiophile community. I do think most audiophiles, at least when they are starting out, would actually like to know the facts and make truly informed buying decisions. That is not even possible if we allow facts and reason to be shouted down by these true believers. This is exactly why I made the creationist analogy. I have no problem with creationists believing in creationism. That's on them. I do have a big problem with government representatives trying to legislate it into schools to be taught as legitimate science.

2. This influence and imbalance of beliefs among audiophiles DOES affect manufacturer's choices in ways that make for inferior product. And in this regard I am being quite selfish in my public ridicule of the AAA cult. They have a very loud voice and they have the attention of the labels who make audiophile vinyl. When you have idiots like Michael Fremer who declares he can always hear digital in a vinyl record when there is a digital step and you have PT Barnums like Chad who managed to angle certain business advantages as two of the loudest and most respected voices in high end vinyl perpetuating the myth that AAA mastering is actually better you end up with companies like Mofi who fucking get sued for quite literally doing the best they can to make the best LPs they can because it bruised the egos of the AAA cultists who drank the Fremer/Kassam et al Kool aide. (so so sorry for the run on sentence there) And this makes it a problem for other companies to make the otherwise obvious superior choice of doing digital transfers to make their LPs.

So yeah, I am selfishly going to publicly fight this nonsense tooth and nail for pretty selfish reasons. I want better sounding records. Religious beliefs about sound quality that clearly are factually incorrect are an obstacle to that goal.

I fight the fight because I truly believe that if it isn't fought then the bullshit rules the industry and everything ultimately suffers for it.

It's already uneven enough that such bullshit as $40K power cords, cable lifters, esoteric DACs and a multitude of other nonsensical garbage is largely held as true because of the wide acceptance of it's truth. IMO we are already in a deep hole.

So I am not a pacifist in the struggle between fact and reason against religion and irrationality.

And to quote Rocco DeLuca "The truth is not polite."

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