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In the Thread: Audio critique – open your mind!
Post Subject: BTW, the earth is not flat.Posted by jessie.dazzle on: 7/26/2007
"Actually I would like to stay at on the subject of this thread - the benefits of critiques and the benefits of positive perception of critiques"
To put my above meandering in more simple terms : I believe that your constructive criticism is indigestible to the great majority of those on the receiving end. I believe this indigenstion is due to a lack of adequate references.
"Why audio people are so driven by fear?"
What you tell them is, from their point of view, simply and quite honestly unbelievable; There is however a part of the recipient that suspects some of what you are telling them might actually be true, which induces confusion and hence fear. You are in effect telling an old-world cartographer that the earth is not flat!
Its a classic text book case of what once used to get people burned at the stake.
What you are telling them is so far out, that in some cases your words are likely interpreted as those of a person having clearly malicious intent. You have in effect become "a personal enemy who violently trespassed your (their) little backyard".
This is due to what?... Lack of adequate references on the part of the recipient... on the individual level... regardless of the fact that the individual may be an audio manufacturer, an audio reviewer, or an audio consumer. You might just as well be speaking Greek to them (that would scare them less).
"...so I wonder why everybody else in Audio just afraid to acknowledge the sightlessness of their pursue and stop to treat mistakes as failures."
Probably because within their frame of reference, they have not at all created a failure... They have perfectly responded to the code.
Once again, they do not possess adequate references to judge or (more to the point of your original post) TO FIELD A JUDGEMENT REFERENCING POINTS BEYOND THE ACKNOWLEDGED BOUNDS.
BTW, disclaimer... I myself am certainly very inexperienced and probably just as ignorant as anyone else. I try not to take myself seriously to the point that it obscures learning.
Also, the title of my above post "High-end... An acquired taste" could be misinterpreted : I meant to suggest that the current state of what defines excellence in audio is a sort of acquired or learned code... it is not natural, and nobody would have ever guessed that such characteristics ("That elimination, bleaching, and abolition of fine nuances of conditions and circumstances") would one day define "excellence" in sound reproduction.
Like it or not, we have been dealt this code... Undoing it will not come over night.
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