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- From: snydert@dmapub.dma.org (Tony Snyder)
- Subject: Re: 150 - 200 W. Amplifier
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.193611.1959@dmapub.dma.org>
- Organization: Dayton Microcomputer Association: Dayton, Ohio
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:36:11 GMT
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- : I am continually amazed at the witchcraft ethos among high-end audio
- : enthusiasts, who spend thousands of dollars on expensive capacitors, circuit
- : boards, speaker wire, etc., and then rationalize their expenditures by claiming
- : to hear sound improvements which can't be measured or verified by any objective
- : tests. Good design practice stipulates using the cheapest components and
- : simplest circuits that will get the job done. Oddly, the high-end audio
- : market seems driven by the reverse notion that one should spend the maximum
- : money possible (e.g., on hundred dollar patch cords), for benefits that exist
- : entirely in the mind of the purchaser. I guess the phenomenon is testimony to
- : the power of advertising and the influence of techno-mumbo jumbo (quartz-locked
- : this and digitally sampled that and linear phase non-inverting blah blah
- : blah)on impressionable minds.
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- You evidently are flying pretty high on some sort of an electrical
- engineering degree or something. Your educators failed you by not
- covering such important technological topics such as Bragging Rights
- and Cognitive Dissonance. Such a shame.
-