bdp24Audio magazine was great, the only U.S.A. "news stand" hi-fi mag during the 70's and beyond I had any use for ... Audio was a great magazine and had an excellent staff, including Edward Tatnall Canby, Joseph Giovanelli and Bert White. Later, Dick Heyser and Tony Cordesman. Editor Gene Pitts now edits The Audiophile Voice. White was exceptionally good and very much on the leading edge of subjective audio reviewing - the very opposite of the Julian Hirsch/Stereo Review model. Even then, he slayed a few of the classic audio canards - such as that all bass is mono - and he helped expose the poor engineering and marketing behind early quad audio. He also made his own recordings and encouraged others to do the same. (Of course, few audiophiles do make their own recordings, and that often explains their enduring dissatisfaction and confusion about what at audio system can do.)
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geoffkaitThat’s
a Strawman argument that human hearing differences are greater than
differences in specifications. First and foremost is humans can often
agree on what differences between components or cables or speakers are,
so their hearing must be fairly similar. There was a time I would have been inclined to agree with this, but that was before the Yanni/Laurel illusion.
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mahlman Here is a true story of snobbish attitude and the result ... He was distraught because the guys on Audiogon had
convinced him he could not have a real system unless he spent 80G or
more. I've never read any such advice on Audiogon, so I'm going to have to consider this little story just fanciful fiction.
... the buyer spent $1,500 on a set of used Klipsch pro gear and stated they
easily beat the $80,000 B&W speakers he had been dreaming of that he
could not afford.
So long as he's happy, that's all that counts.
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mahlman ... wouldn't it be a hoot to get these guys to do double blind testing ... What are you waiting for? Why don't you organize some double-blind testing of your own?
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