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FiveDotOne wrote

The most active audiophiles are retro audiophiles that hate CD, digital
audio in general and want to go back to the golden 70es and their youth.
Extremely conservative gang that controls opinions of those younger
audiophiles that for some strange reason have taken up hifi as their hobby.

How do I detect a retro audiophile:

1. He/she typically hates

.. CD and all digital audio ... sometimes SACD is OK
.. multichannel audio
.. active loudspeakers

Name one auiophile that claims to hate "all digital audio."
This is typical of the objectivist mythology regarding other
audiophiles.


2. He/she typical thinks that
.. mechanical sound reproduction is state of the art forever (i.e. LPs)

And who has made this claim? "State of the art forever."

.. tube amplifiers rule
.. cables are one of the most important factors of audio reproduction

Again who, other than cable manufacturers, have made this claim?

.. there are magic tools that can improve audio reproduction of equipment
(like mats under your equipment or Golden Sound DH Cones, Squares, and
Pads that even Ken K recommended in Hifi News one year ago).

Please cite any claims bu any audiophile that "magic" is at work.

.. when the equipment costs outrageously much it just cannot be bad!!!
.. I have "golden ears" that can detect even ultrasonics
.. mass market products are inherently poor

You have built quiite a straw man.


And typically he/she does not understand much about acoustics,
mechanics, signal processing, electronics design etc. at all.

Typically? How can you use the word in regards to imaginary people?


Well ... this actually also goes very well with the market situation
that is not improving (hifi is not a growth market) and but on the other
hand

.. outrageously priced items produce high margins for manufacturers and
sales chain (even if the quantities are small)

Sure about that?

.. there is something to write about for the audio magazines (if all
properly designed amplifiers would sound the same, Atkinson would not
have anything to write about)

Really? Then what the heck is Sound and Vision writing about?

.. small European and Chinese manufacturers have niche market for their
products.

PS2. sometimes it even seems to me that "High End" is about worshiping
all sorts of audio anomalies ..

Clearly you don't understand what audiophiles are looking for in high
end.

Scott.