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In Reply to: You are so right posted by Metralla on February 11, 2007 at 08:09:29:
Coincidently, I started reading the very first issues of 'Stereophile' and in Vol. 1, Issue 4, I found an LTE that sounded amazingly like something presented here, except it was about 'Stereophobia'
"Sirs: I say that stereo is a first class fake and the biggest fraud ever put out by American Mfr. I have never found anyone who knows audio engineering or music that did not agree with this. All those who disagree just don't know enough to know the truth or they are liars engaged in selling stereo equipment. The only reason that most people have gone for stereo is that they have not had time, and will not take the time to get all the facts, so they are victims of advertising, the biggest con game in the world, and I am not so sure that they don't deserve what they get. ... " How about that folks? Sound familiar?
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...more than 50 years.The ignorant and uninformed are claiming audio products are snake oil.
Based on their 'understanding' of engineering and science.
Not "more than 50 years." It only seems that long. IIRC, Stereophile started in the early 60s and TAS came along quite a bit later.
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Sounded like you were commenting on JC's post. In any event, we've beaten this one long enough.
45 years? Is that OK?
...is that over 45 years, or 50 years, or 450 years, the vast majority of what looks like snake oil has, in fact, proven to BE snake oil. Some folks only remember the rare exceptions. Those rare exceptions then serve as fodder to support people's belief in the latest snake-oil fad. And even many of those "exceptions" remain suspect.Since Jesus, how many people have claimed to be Jesus? How many of them actually WERE? How can you tell?
Who expects precision here anyway, although I'd personally hate to lose more than 5 years at this point. :-)
Indeed it does. The author is making a series of statements without putting forward any evidence, facts or reasoning to support his view apart from some dubious looking personal experience.
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