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RE: You are talking out of both sides of your mouth.

Posted by Old Listener on July 5, 2011 at 19:46:43:
> My point is that most of people do not want to use a computer for
> playback outside of a casual desktop environment.

For many people, listening via a PC or via an iGadget and headphones is the way they choose to listen to music.

People in the millions use iTunes for the new functionality it provides. Somehow, they got over the hump of using a computer for acquiring music, playing it on their computer and transferring it to their iGadgets. Apple has the largest set of users. However, large numbers of other people use functionally similar systems.

> Neither do most audiophiles.

Speak for yourself. This forum and a number of others are populated with people who choose to use a computer for music playback. Some are very happy with the results they are getting. Others are having a harder time.

Audiophiles who have very limited computer skills have a choice to make: learn some concepts and acquire some skills or avoid computer based audio. The same concepts and skills will apply to a packaged music server or a streamer like the Squeezebox/SqueezeBox Server. Fail to learn and you may regret it.

> Studios: It may "look" like similar pieces, but working in that
> environment is hardly fun. It is work.

Not just "look" like similar pieces. Audiophiles are buying the same audio interfaces that audio engineers use. I'd guess that most were not masochists.

You can't seem to remember your own arguments. You asserted that studios were full of boxes that were like music streamers or music servers. I pointed out that the computers and audio interfaces used the same interfaces and were similar in function to what audiophiles use. They aren't like music streamers or music servers.

A bit of history. Companies like Avid once sold turnkey audio editing systems based on computer workstations for $ 60,000. Audio editing software running on generic personal computers reduced the price greatly and drove turnkey systems out of the market.

Your new argument is that a studio is a work environment and that using the computers and audio interfaces there isn't fun. If you had been correct that those boxes in studios were like music streamers and music servers, would that have meant that music streamers and servers were not fun to use?

I'll let you off the hook. Just because something is used in a work environment doesn't mean that it can't be fun to use. Money for example.

Bill