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In the Thread: Expensive Audiophilism as a diagnosis.
Post Subject: The way from ignorance to moronity Posted by Antonio J. on: 6/30/2005
 Romy the Cat wrote:

Actually I do not think that it “all about money” but rather about “those” people who exercise nothing else then thier own Moronity. Ignorance is a state when a person recognizes that something is wrong but do not know "what" and "how" to do in order to improve or radically change the situation. The Moronity is the state of a semi-religious subscription when the actually sensations substituted with aset of dogmas and precompiled notions.

High-end audio is not about the high-end efforts but about the high-end Results. The superior results make for instances some audio elements to be superior within ascale of the audio hierarchy. However, the above-mentioned people do not discriminate the results, means or reasons. They blindly subscribed for any high-price solution, presuming that the fact of high price shields them from engineering incompetence or ignorance of the manufacturers.

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Rgs,
Romy the Cat


I agree with your statements. But I wonder if some people fall into moronity because they're willing to or because the "high-end system" (industry, press and most hobbists) doesn't offer the means, nor the knowledge to get real high-end systems regarding the results. I mean that most audio aficionados don't know what's possible, so cannot know which should be their goals, don't know what's important to have recorded music sounding like true music showing its contents. So as time goes by they end up believing that best sound comes from high-end stuff at high prices. Then they start speaking the same nonsense and giving the same moron advices that they've been offered. But probably if those people had the chance of being "illustrated" and being exposed to good results, they'd change their minds and would stop looking like morons. I just disagree with you in that probably the percentage of people that aren't "true morons" is higher, although many of them look like true morons, but they would know they're ignorants if conveniently taught, so would stop behaving like morons repeating the same nonsense they're reading and being told by others, whose interests are trully moronic, or just economical.
A great deal of the problem is that most people can spend money to get what they believe are results, but most cannot spend the time, the effort and don't have the strong motivations to learn what this could be. As you said many times, it's all a matter about how serious you're about audio, and how much one is willing to spend in terms of time, travelling, reading and also money to learn before getting any decent results.
I wish there were an "easy way" to get decent results without spending so much time for an affordable money. That would make many morons become "serious-audio rookies".

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