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Dominic wrote:

Tell me though, how is the high end's idea of better audio different from say the car industry's idea of the car you need?

The car industry promotes better cars that address customers’ needs. The high-end audio industry has no thing to do with customers’ needs but instead it develop own simulated needs and then make customers and manufactures at chaise those bogus needs. Once Socrates return from his local market and told: “Now I’ve learned that there are many things in this world that I have absolutely no need”. I would not enumerate all faulty needs that the high-end audio industry created but I declare the entire industry as the a big unnecessary thing.

Well, to be a little more practical (admittedly utopiacly practical) I think that a overly sensitive, almost anal-retentive, prosecution of the industry idiots-writers is something the might kill that superfluous dirt. You remember when in 1984 Bose Corporation sued Consumer Reports Magazine for publishing a review in which a reviewer blamed Bose that images from Bose speaker "tended to wander around room". There was a bunch of other foolishness in there and Bose took the Consumer Reports to the Court. Eventuality they were running all the way up to Federal Supreme Court. I think it was absolutely brilliant move for audio manufacturer. Since then any industry bubble-pusher afraid to touch Bose products with their dirty hands.  So what?  Bose runs it’s own marketing; do not give a damn about the entire industry and very much flourishes as company… while the Stereophile magazine sells itself for $9 per year. I think it is exactly how it should be. The reviewing superstructure, as an independent marketing force, should be hit by overvaluing amount of lawsuits from manufactures when they publish BS and from another side they should be hit by overvaluing amount of lawsuits from consumers and consumers unions when whey spread their fraud and deceptions. It would make those idiots to shut up for good and in the absent of the reviewing noise that the industry injects into audio the real consumer awareness will start developing.

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