TCS wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:08:37 GMT, Paul Stamler wrote:


Ah, but that wouldn't be the Audiophile Way. The Audiophile Way would be to
muffle the highs with a carefully-chosen cable so you can use the speakers
you just bought that have fantastic stereo imaging and bizarrely unbalanced,
shrieky tonal balance. The "imaging is everything" school of audiophilia has
been responsible for a lot of the nonsense in the audiophile world.


That, or they grew up listining to records and want their CD player
to sound the same.



Why on earth would anyone take such a huge step backwards in sound quality?

I don't know about you but the records and playback equipment "I" grew
up with I wouldn't use in a machine shop today
it was just god awful
some type of belt driven wow and flutter generator by technics,a 19$
audio-technica cartridge, a crappy 30 watt pioneer reciever and albums
that spent as much time as drink coasters and ashtrys as they did on the
"turntable"
Oh and the hifi sound of some crappy tower speaker from KlH

Good playback gear was just not affordable to "me" growing up.

and even if it was my lifestyle had no place for it
who needed hifi to listen to the Clash?

CD were and are a blessing to the music consumer