Ha! A friend of mine e-mailed me the article to make fun of me. We need support groups, not ridicule. I say we get the government to institute a withdrawal program much like the Heroin ones. Instead of methadone, they can hand out equipment in order to "cure" us of the addiction. This really is a pernicious and insidious social ill that needs to be addressed as soon as possible, and I think that government support is really the only way to do it.
Washington Post Article
Just wanted to alert members to an article appearing in the Style section of today's (6/13/01) Wash. Post.It is one of those articles that seems to be recycled every few years ridiculing the excesses of the audiophile community. As is typical it focusses on the bleeding edge fringe of the hobby, profiling a man who is at $140K and counting,is obssesed with stopping hum being produced by his fridge. The article includes some quotes from Deja Vu Audio pointing out to the reporter a $10k turntable and a pair of speakers with "magnet-suspended" tweeters. Just what we needed! My girlfriend described the article as a disturbing glimpse of what I might become. (My system is circa $10K in total.) Thanks again to the mainstream media for shining a light on the seedy underbelly of the audio community.