Munich 2018

[Carcrashboy]

Glad to hear that IT engineers at Apple have eliminated the need for the work of audio engineers (the religious types that believe that it matters) at dCS, Wadia, Mark Levinson, Weiss, Accuphase, Theta Digital, Esoteric, not leave out Sony and Phillips and the new wave of sect members from Innous, Auralic, Linn, SOtM, Aurender, Bricasti, Sonore, etc. 

Pour guys have spent an accumulated thousand years looking for the holy grail because nobody told them that they are running in a vicious circle where everything sounds different but never better and should pick up a Mac Mini from the middle of the circle and look for another job. Next year in Munich I will try to convince them.

Let me remind you this is a business first.  High cost, which you are alluding to, is driven by hype but mostly by the economies of scale and not engineering prowess.  Furthermore, it is NOT indicative of high performance, not even close.  There are countless examples but I'll offer you one, the Simaudio Moon CP-8.  Ever hear about that?  I rest my case.

It's a difficult process to change the minds of the technically unaware once the audio propoganda takes hold.  But if this hobby has any chance of surviving we got to quit blowing smoke up in people's ears.

For a lot of us this a very pleasurable hobby, for me 49 years and counting. We are not fools, we have lived through the whole CD quality will never be beaten, the first iPhone is the only we will never need, Coke bringing out the best bottled water EVER. Life is a business now, from Mac laptop to breakfast to the Kardashians. But YOU CAN hear differences in different sources cables, amps, speakers. Not all food tastes the same to people, not all people hear the same thing. Anyway have a good day, I am listening to 2 Pairs of PMC speakers that are displaying different bass characteristics but both enjoyable. Go figure.