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In Reply to: RE: I posted............. posted by jrlaudio on November 3, 2012 at 06:57:05:
You wrote,"Audio manufacturers and the people who worship their teachings will decsribe what they hear as "transparent" or "wholly accurate" or best still "musical". This last term really keys into the thinking, both to the purpose of profiteering companies or the justifications of gearheads. A piece of gear that "sounds musical" implies it is making music itself. A truley accurate piece of audio equipment shouldn't sound like anything. It should be transparent. So what we hear in this description are manufacturers cleverly disquising the less than accurate performance of their gear. The term being used by the audiophile desribes his desire to create a sound rather than to listen to the sound the artist created. The latter being a matter of hobbyist fun and aesthetic, which is fine. The former however is a simple deception for extreme profit which is unethical by nature. In other industries, it would be deemed criminal. Strong words, I admit. But honest ones. If it isn't we'd be paying $500 per gallon for gas. Come to think about it, that's way to low by comparision to audiophile margins. $5000? ... yeah that's about right."
I couldn't help noticing you own a Koetsu Onyx cartridge - a cartridge noted for not only being extremely expensive on the overall scale of things but also for possessing a rather "romantic" sound, as it were. Kind of strange you would go off on such a long rant regarding high end prices and deception and ethics when you yourself bought one of the more famous examples of precisely what you are railing against.
Edits: 11/03/12
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- RE: I posted............. - geoffkait 08:03:54 11/03/12 (2)
- RE: I posted............. - jrlaudio 09:17:23 11/03/12 (1)
- Huh? - Tony Lauck 09:47:27 11/03/12 (0)
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