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Scott, I do not believe that people come to audio because the love of music. In fact the “love of music” itself is some kind of vaselino-chewee term that I would like do not use. An interest in Music has nothing to do with audio. I’ve been saying this for years: Music has nothing to do with audio. From a certain perspective Audio has “almost” nothing to do with Music but this relation is slightly more complicated, I would not dive in it now. 

Anyhow, let use the phrase “love for music” for the sake of illustration. It is a mistake to join a DIYer with his “love for music”. People who value thier “love for music” AER happy listening to boom boxes and they have no problems to do so. In fact, this is what the most advanced high-end listeners do. I can’t do not blow my own horn but… it is what I do 2/3 of my “critical” listening. The demands for better audio, if they are natural and original demands, have very narrow and very specific basis. As many DIY people I’ve met I would say that 99% of them had NO those basis’s and this motivation were ONLY to punch envelope of “the doable”.

My problem not with the DIYers skills but with this completely blind or the omni-directional application. Because the DIYers have no objective in Sound reproduction but only their primitive objectives to the Sounds reproduction then the DIYer solutions do not server any serious purpose beside to entertain the hobby. We accomplish ONLY what we wish, nothing else. If we get an accidental superior result that we do not wish or pursuit then we do not acknowledge the result. The DIYers do not identify the problems and they do not evaluate the results. The just do the “doable” and listen the “listenable”, nothing else.

If you feel that I am wrong then next time when you visit a next DIYer interview him about the sense of his actions and ask his to explain his objectives to you without using phrases “volt”, “impedance”, “ebay” or “fun hobby”

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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