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Again, about the stupidity of non-critical perception.

I have seen in audio all over – people visit each other, listen each other playbacks, in response to the hospitality of the owners they pass numerous compliments about the sound of given installation regardless the quality of sound they heard. What kind purpose this experience serves? Dose it enrich or benefit any of the parties? Two weeks ago I visited a local New England audio person and he told me the he have expressed some critical comments about somebody in past and people never invited him again. A few years back I was visiting another local New England audio person, who fancy himself an amplifier designer, and who in response to my critical comment about his sound literary kicked me out of his house. In both cased I wonder was it worthy to stay in that home or return back to those people? Are we in audio so much care about our made-up cheap publicity and stupid fraudulent egos?

I do not know how you but I very much willing and always do milk my visitors with critical comments about my sound, furthermore I do have tendency do not invite for a second time people who were not able to pass any criticism.  Visiting each other audio installations is nothing more than educational experience and to waste it for idiotic divertissements of pretentious congeniality is truly damn thing to do.

A case to point. The last night a visited a local audio guy who has a nice playback installation in his living room.  With the very first bars he played it was very clear that the playback sounded beyond horrible – it was a nightmare. Being me I informed me that it was horrible and very much not worthy nether to build a payback with this resulting sound nor continue to listening.  The owner of the system agreed with my assessment and then he did what very few and only if they are very smart people do – he proposed to find a bug that screw up the sound. After a couple hours we did found an element the was responsible for very bad sound and dealing with it we were able to make his playback to sound remarkably good, I mean really-really pleasant.

My question is – would it be any better if listening the initial crapy sound we did not go into criticism and did not made the right correction the were truly revolutionary in trim of results? Would any of three of us: him, I and his Sound be befitted if the guy in response to my criticism would show me the door as a few idiots did previously?  Well, the idiots who did had a great accomplishment – they continue to live in ignorance with the sound that worth their unhealthy self-image.  Good for them.

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