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Interesting post, Dominick. However, my views are way more radical. I am not for discouraging – I am for a complete elimination. What I feel should be elimination is a superstructure that sets artificial and completely bogus hierarchy in audio. We rank tennis players but we do not rank artistic performances. We rank mutual founds but we do not rank paintings or musicians… I mean we rank the simple subjects that might be evaluated in simplistic one-dimension: score or yield. We can even rank pop-songs, however we don’t do it by artistic qualities but only by revenue that they generated. The audio industry invented a bogus concept that better audio has some other meaning then juts being “better’ audio. Interestingly that the industry never was able to define what would mean “better audio” and then the industry tosses in some linguistic surrogates that do not serve any other purpose then… to build a primitive “perceptional hierarchy”. The problem is that the audio users generally are not really audio-intelligent people and within an absent of any audio intelligence or sonic integrity those people sponge unfortunately absolutely anything. Do you know that most of audio manufacturers when the time comes (it happens when all pre-buttered customers “have bought” and now is the time for the next round to sell) design their audio not with sonic objective or with customer benefits objective but targeting the very specific pre-developed marketing gap? I spoke with one manufacturer (one of the most prominent whose product at the very top of the industry hierarchy) who told me that he dose not care how his products sound and do not even care what kind press he will be getting when he release his products. According to him the mechanism is so well-oiled, so corrupted and so idiotic (his word) that whatever he produces will be sold as soon he punch the necessary marketing buttons. So, the industry is not about the encouraging of discouraging customers but about implanting the replacement-awareness into the brains of the Morons-consumers and then stupidly and very non-elegantly milking that implanted awareness. Interestingly that any industry person who involved in this, even for a short time, get so infected and do degraded that the person very rapidly devaluates up to the point of absolute nothingness. Pay attention: any industry person who do this crap more then a year might be a perfectly balanced and rational human being but as soon as a subject touches the subject of his professional interest then his/her eyes flip upside down and the person begins to express so much idiocy that it is not even funny. I personally put all industry people out of prentices of my interest and I am for a complete elimination of those people. Who should be left: we - the consumers, our requirements and the people who are able to fulfill the requirements. All the rest is just a ballast that fucks up audio as a subject of interests.

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