4season
Well-known member
Sweet triodes, no!! This sort of unchecked sense of self-importance is what lead hifi shops to become Audio "Salons" (before they became nothing at all), salesmen to become "Consultants", and simply listening became "Auditioning". For all the good it's done the hobby: The marketplace is a shadow of it's 1985 self, and in the USA anyhow, the audience is aging and less diverse than it's ever been. Everyone else is hanging out at the Apple Store.Audio had the 'prophet' and Harry Pearson of the ORIGINAL Absolute Sound and his followers who coined a vocabulary for audio; 'grunge', 'veiled' etc to describe what got between the real sound (i guess they meant what would be heard if you were 'there') and what electronics did. Others then looked at voltage (tubes) vs current (solid state) devices and a lot of other ways to explain.
We are way behind. We need the "Harry Pearson" of photo to at least start the process.
If you must draw a parallel to audio, pick a Stephen Mejias instead of an HP--please.