On 12/3/2013 5:45 AM, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
Audiophiles as snobs, this is hardly a new idea. In every hobby there
are people who simply enjoy what they are doing, whether they use
basic instruments or equipment, and then there are those who obsess
over their equipment to the point that its ownership, care,
maintenance, and showing it off may perhaps exceed actually using it
to listen to music, take photographs, etc.
If you feel the need to enumerate the brand name of your gear, point
out the metallic content of your cables, talk about "jitter" outside
of your job as an engineer, sure, you're an audiophile snob. If you
just happen to own some nice equipment with which you enjoy music,
you're probably a music lover.
So, to reiterate, if you tend to like to talk about your gear, you're
an "audiophile" (ie snob, gearhead) and if you like to talk about
music then you're a music lover.
I don't consider those techno-audiophiles to be snobs, that seems quite
inaccurate. Gullible and deluded maybe...
In the great majority of cases, one doesn't 'just happen to own nice
equipment'. He has paid a 'nice chunk of change' for it, and there must
be some reason why he walked past the 'mid-fi' displays to get to it.
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