Quality Audiophoolery

[GK]

It takes a combination of science and alchemy to design a piece of audio gear. Once it's designed, I don't give a shit about the science, I just want to enjoy the music. Whatever that requires.

Go on, I don't take your criticisms personally. I'm quite proud of the fact my views have managed to alienate both the "audiophools" and the staunch objectivists. I think the only person who might completely agree with me is Harvey Rosenberg, and he's dead.

...I am a member of the tribe of men who choose to drive only Harley-Davidson motorcycles and consider driving a Honda a form of sacrilege, because Hondas don't produce the kind of stimulus our brain demands. Of course there are hundreds of thousands of members of the Honda tribe who lie awake at night and dream about the totems of their motorcycle tribe and will often write love poetry to them. The intensity of feeling we experience about very specific totems is a mystery, and we are often ready to kill and die for them.

From this point of view, one way to look at male tribes/fan groups is as a congregation of men who share the same hormone cocktail response to a stimulus, whether it is a large mouth bass, a religion, or, a sports team, or, a particular rock band…or, brand of car….all tools of male culture.

Again, tools are not just "things" for men, they can be powerful totems, because they trigger such deep primal physical responses. The difference between a tool and totem is that when using certain tools something quite magical happens in our brain/body…we are more alive, smarter, faster, braver, more intelligent, we tingle with the thrill of being alive…all of our senses are operating at max…we feel we more powerful, graceful and our genius is fully operational. And again, we can be uplifted to that higher state by our guitar, a flag, or, by our sailboat, and at the foundation of this ecstasy is the struggle we endured so we can be in this euphoric state. Without the struggle, the juices of ecstasy, our hormones, don't flow. No stress, no ecstasy.

LOL At this point it is entirely clear that arguing is pointless. To be blunt, I think that guy must have been born with two dicks. Could not have grown up to be that stupid pulling just one.
 

[eliocor]

Instead of buying fabulous pre-amplifiers/acoustic diffusors/special cables/... I long prefer to attend and spend my money on LIVE classical music concerts.

BTW, I discovered that many audiophoolers own only 10 or 20 reference records and listen only to them.

Maybe my several thousands CDs collection (bad recorded/with no dynamics/uncrystal clear sound/whatever negative thing you want) will be no par to their records  but nonetheless I'm enjoying it!!!