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More Absolute Idiocy From the Audiophile Fringe

MakeMineVinyl

MakeMineVinyl

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There's a site called Digital Audio Review which is always good for ultra high end nonsense and absolute blindness to the importance of acoustics (which is after all part of that ultra high end system). Here's a quote from a review of a Genelec speaker which is amusing:

Such thinking not only plays into the hands of Genelec’s long established studio-leaning customer base, where the distance from ear to speaker is commonly marked by mixing console depth, but also home-based audiophiles like yours truly looking for a high-end loudspeaker solution that’ll play well in a more compact lounge room where the passive room treatments of studio land just won’t play. Acoustic panels are expensive. Properly effective acoustic panels are really expensive. Properly effective acoustic panels that look nice (or visually vanish) bite a serious hole in any hifi system budget.

WTF? You're telling me that you won't blink in shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on esoteric and overpriced "audiophile" gear, yet acoustics are too expensive?? WTF indeed!

Get out of my way, I want to go out and kill something.... :rofl:
 
How in the hell does this guy have an ounce of credibility. At his level not understanding acoustics is crazy.

The 6 shity homemade panels I placed in my room made a very big and very noticeable difference. AND NO HOLES.
 
Dentman said:
How in the hell does this guy have an ounce of credibility. At his level not understanding acoustics is crazy.

The 6 shity homemade panels I placed in my room made a very big and very noticeable difference. AND NO HOLES.
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An my acoustic treatments will be ballpark $300. If you spend a ton on speakers what is $300?
 
I've seen audiophiles spend more on cable lifters and free-standing crystal digital clock resonators that sit next to a CD player than is necessary for some good, attractive acoustic treatments.

Hell, I've seen decorations (pictures, paintings, wall sculptures, light sconces, etc.) in listening rooms which are more expensive than similarly attractive acoustic treatments.
 
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