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Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics

I'm increasingly fascinated by the number of threads that have been created lately by OP's who have joined over only the last 2 months with less than 30 posts that all seem related to the importance of wires and tweaks. While I'm not dismissing the notion that everything matters in hifi (including digital cable), it seems that these topics vastly overwhelm thread topics that clearly would have more influence to hifi audio sound such as discussions of the sonic characteristics of various amplifier topologies, the importance of simplifying the signal path, and identifying fantastic speaker/amplifier synergies, etc...

If some unsuspecting newbie were to stumble onto this forum they would likely come away thinking that a fuse or a piece of wire are the most important elements towards obtaining wonderful hifi sound. This is unfortunate. For example, my discovery of listening to a SET circuit years ago paired with speakers possessing a high and flat impedance greatly outshines any joy derived from identifying the finest digital cable produced by man. I'm simply questioning the hifi priorities that this forum seems to be obsessed with lately.

Is it just me?
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jetter
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Audiogon is only rent free to those who we are stuck with reading their thousands of posts per year and instead of showing respect for the mods and the site sell their equipment on another free sales site.

But who can blame them, for example it would cost about $50 bucks to sell a $2,500 piece of equipment here.  It's pretty clear having a great site like this aong with its captive audience who are stuck reading thousands of post isn't worth $50 bucks.

An important function of this site when it started was to be a forum where audiophiles could get to know a little about each other with its important purpose to provide a level of comfort when buying and selling equipment to other known members.  To the incessant posters who have no intention to pay the reasonable fees to sell here but would rather be penny pinchers and let others pay for the site I say good riddance. 
jetter
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I have only twice made a request of the moderators, both the same.  Requests that even if I say so I think are excellent.

I asked the moderators if a separate topic category can be established entitled "Tweaks".  In this way, since they do not have their own category, the regular overflow of discourse regarding tweaks into other categories would be limited.  And for some of us with no or limited interest in fuses, stones, podiums, shumann generators, springs, cable risers, and other tweaks could easily just ignore the whole subject. 

I am not passing judgement on these at all, just they are of limited interest to me compared to other topics, but if others are interested great.

Unfortunately, my request have not been heeded.  
jetter
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Pathetic is putting a positive spin on it.  He and mahgister are on opposite poles of the cool person spectrum.
jetter
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OK, here’s playing the devil’s advocate.  Sometimes the most obvious answers that are right in front of you do not come to light.

I do not consider interconnects, or speaker and power cables tweaks.

First, lets be real, many of the lengths that some of you go to to tweak your systems would be considered fairly symptomatic of a neurotic condition by non audiophiles.  I think you will find it is also considered the same by a lot of audiophiles.

A possible explanation for the tweak o maniac is that they have blown so much money and ended up with a such a lousy sounding system that they will try anything, no matter how weird, to make it sound better and not have to admit they really blew it.

This is only relevant if you have never had your system sound so good that you could just sit back and enjoy it.

Remember I am just playing the devil's advocate.
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