Darko nailed it. 12 examples of wishful thinking in the hi-fi community


John is on his game with this opinion piece. All 12 points are valid. 

https://darko.audio/2025/06/12-examples-of-wishful-thinking-in-the-hi-fi-community/

foggyus91

He’s incorrect.  You do NOT need room treatments if you set your system properly.  And no. Hes wrong on giant killers. There are MANY out there.  Lets start with the Audiopax Model 88 which when released was priced at under 10k.  Yes you read that right.  Under 10k!!!.  

Darko is an important voice in the hobby. You don't have to agree with his subjective takes on everything, but if you say he's useless with everything then you need to understand why you don't have friends.

@newton_john In my post I stated taking some issue with the digitization, and a preference for all analog. I agree its far from a disaster.

@mapman Michael Fremer made a video about how amazing MoFi’s expensive Original Master Recording vinyl sounded, how digital can never sound like this, how he can tell the difference. Turns out that record among many other MoFi Original Master Recordings was cut from DSD lol.

@sns 

Sorry, I misunderstood your comments.

It’s unfortunate that the likes of Darko try to wind us up to get attention.

Yet, he is capable if doing more detailed and thoughtful features such as this interview with Peter Cormeau. https://darko.audio/2023/10/podcast-10-hi-fi-myths-busted-w-peter-comeau/ It still has a clickbait title though.