Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
That article is like every other in that it is smugly self-assured that its strident prose is absolute truth. Most magazine articles take that same tone. In reality, what it does is convince people that it's OK to buy absolute shit quality stuff, since it's all the same.
There are truths and half-truths there, like everywhere else. The "golden ear lie" is exactly the opposite of what I have to tell most people. Why? Because they have become swayed by crap like that article and opinions like yours that the whole industry is a scam. I have to deal with getting people to buy something decent rather than some utter piece of shit from you-know-where, because they tell me they don't have "golden ears" and can't tell the difference. Um, YES, YOU CAN! You DO have a reason to buy decent quality gear. And by decent quality I mean a Yamaha receiver over a $99 special or a $600 pair of B&Ws over a $600 acoustimass piece of crap. The biggest lie in the audio industry is truly the Bose corporation, but people can't write articles denigrating them or they would be sued.
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