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I have been in this hobby in seince 2004 and I have to say there is a LOT of nonsense and outright expensive bullcrap in this "hobby"
The first thing I want to talk about is Those "cable lifters"
I cant beleive someonw iwill pay $100.00 each for a set of little stones or wooden thingis to sit audio cables on. because they perceive a barely noticible difference in sound that's basicvly nothing but overhyped bullcrap!
Monster cable-Anyone who pays big $ for a roll of puple insulated copper wire with a fancy dancy enc connector is either an idiot or worse,has so much money he has nothing good to spend it on.
Professional cable Burn-In services- I saw this in stereophile and I was like WTF? I have to pay $$$$ for some guty to hook up a cable to some machine with outlets that put high levels of juice into my RCA and speaker cables?
Brand name bashing and loyalty.- some audiphiles refuse to buy anything considred lower end than thier overated gear because they are afraid it may equal the sound of the $$$$ unit they payed for or, be inferior in sound without givig it a try! dont get me started on brand bashing..
Brands bashed: Bose,KLH,Klipsch,Bose,Behrenger,Sony and soundesign.
I have to admit soundesign wasnt/Isn't all that bad yes they were cheap but if you used a better set of speakers than what those rack stereo's came with you can really see what decent sound those plastic face-MDF cabinet ,flea watt receivers can put out if one rids themselves of those awful hollow speakers.
I dont really understand why peple say sony makes awful spekers. thier towers sound like pretty ordinary floorstanders to me. I dont like the yellow color of the cones though.
Almost imperceivable differences between $$$ speakers that dont matter which make people WANT to justify paying $100.00 more for a speaker jus because the other speaker makes a certain instrument drift more in the room.
Bookshelf speakers- Almost all the comments about bookshelf speakers are tha they sound small,harsh,look like sh** (some do) and are bass shy. I have listen to and own pair of bookshelf speakers that are definitely not bass shy at 30 or so HZ because thy can adiquately reproduce those 30Hz sine waves heard in hip-hop and rap music without rolling it off.
Rocks- i am serious people will Pay$$$ for ROCKS!
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to put under the corners of thier gear because they perceive a difference that probably was in thier head the whole time.
Cabinets- I keep hearing people say "ported" cabinets make for "colored speakers" and I have to say ALL speakers have some coloration to them and I really dont want speakers that are completely color less as some audiphiles want them.
I like you to know tha the music is coming from the SPEAKERS not some invisible source.
Audiophile gear- peole alway say how wonderful a BRAND NEW stack of silver $$$$ gear snd speakers sound but to me they sound so, dry and shallow to me. I prefer Mid-level older gear myself to newer gear most newer gear has no A** in the amplifier section. Most older receivers tend to "bring out the woofer" " while most modern gear makes inferior modern tower speakers sound somewhat bass shy!
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The first thing I want to talk about is Those "cable lifters"
I cant beleive someonw iwill pay $100.00 each for a set of little stones or wooden thingis to sit audio cables on. because they perceive a barely noticible difference in sound that's basicvly nothing but overhyped bullcrap!
Monster cable-Anyone who pays big $ for a roll of puple insulated copper wire with a fancy dancy enc connector is either an idiot or worse,has so much money he has nothing good to spend it on.
Professional cable Burn-In services- I saw this in stereophile and I was like WTF? I have to pay $$$$ for some guty to hook up a cable to some machine with outlets that put high levels of juice into my RCA and speaker cables?
Brand name bashing and loyalty.- some audiphiles refuse to buy anything considred lower end than thier overated gear because they are afraid it may equal the sound of the $$$$ unit they payed for or, be inferior in sound without givig it a try! dont get me started on brand bashing..
Brands bashed: Bose,KLH,Klipsch,Bose,Behrenger,Sony and soundesign.
I have to admit soundesign wasnt/Isn't all that bad yes they were cheap but if you used a better set of speakers than what those rack stereo's came with you can really see what decent sound those plastic face-MDF cabinet ,flea watt receivers can put out if one rids themselves of those awful hollow speakers.
I dont really understand why peple say sony makes awful spekers. thier towers sound like pretty ordinary floorstanders to me. I dont like the yellow color of the cones though.
Almost imperceivable differences between $$$ speakers that dont matter which make people WANT to justify paying $100.00 more for a speaker jus because the other speaker makes a certain instrument drift more in the room.
Bookshelf speakers- Almost all the comments about bookshelf speakers are tha they sound small,harsh,look like sh** (some do) and are bass shy. I have listen to and own pair of bookshelf speakers that are definitely not bass shy at 30 or so HZ because thy can adiquately reproduce those 30Hz sine waves heard in hip-hop and rap music without rolling it off.
Rocks- i am serious people will Pay$$$ for ROCKS!
Cabinets- I keep hearing people say "ported" cabinets make for "colored speakers" and I have to say ALL speakers have some coloration to them and I really dont want speakers that are completely color less as some audiphiles want them.
I like you to know tha the music is coming from the SPEAKERS not some invisible source.
Audiophile gear- peole alway say how wonderful a BRAND NEW stack of silver $$$$ gear snd speakers sound but to me they sound so, dry and shallow to me. I prefer Mid-level older gear myself to newer gear most newer gear has no A** in the amplifier section. Most older receivers tend to "bring out the woofer" " while most modern gear makes inferior modern tower speakers sound somewhat bass shy!
