"Sander deWaal" wrote in message
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"Romeo Rondeau" said:

Fact of the matter is that working pros are generally
better-educated, more experienced, and more pragmatic
than audiophiles. For example, working pros generally
reject common audiophile urban myths like bi-wiring,
upsampling, so-called hi-rez distribution formats, very
high sample rates, exotic cables and wires, etc.

Yeah, but there's a lot of guys in here that brag about
their expensive mic and preamp combos and make fun of
other folks that use different gear.

A tiny list of exceptions does not disprove the rule.

Sometimes they even
insult their intelligence or hearing when they disagree.

More commonly, they insult the hearing or intelligence of whoever they
disagree with.

Interestingly enough many of these exceptions are like our local clown who
posts under the alias "Dr. Donothing" or something like that. He's quick to
insult the ears of the people he disagrees with and demand a first-rate
resume if one is to have any credibility. However, the "Dr. Donothing" types
generally post under unknown, untracable, unverifiable aliases. They are
apparently legends only in their own minds.

It's a little club, just like the audiophools. I've
heard the same kind of stupid **** coming from "working
pros" as the **** coming from the audiophile type
people.

Again this would be that sometime-noisy tiny minority.

To be fair to Arny, he said "working pros in general".

Exactly - not the exceptions, the general rule.

However, each and every "metier" has its share of clowns,
wannabees and braggers.

There are also some working pros who obviously cater to audiophile type
people. The audiophile market in the US is about 200,000 people. If you have
a recording that is way out of the mainstream, the idea of selling to say
10% of the audiophile market can look pretty good. You may not get your
recording mentioned in Rolling Stone, but there's always TAS and SP.

If you know anything about cross-marketing you then cater to the
audiophile's other biases - brag about your golden mic cable and other
tweaks. You can even set up a catalog where you sell both recordings and
the tweaks you say you used to make the recordings. Mapleshade, anybody?