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I was huge into audio and stereo when I was in my late teens/early twenties. I bought into all the crap and thought that everything in Stereophile and The Absolute Sound was gospel. That is, until a group of readers spammed the reader mail section for months about an ad that featured a woman listening to the advertisers gear with various jazz records strewn around the floor. This was obviously staged by the photographer who shot the ad because it looked cool, but readers had such a assburgers moment about it that I swore off that hobby for a very long time. Now I look at the snake oil that these people sell and I can't believe that I ever thought that any of this would have any impact on the sound coming from my speakers. When I think of all the money I spent on lovely cables and gold plated connectors when I could have been spending that money on actual music I 
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I think that a lot of these people do go and listen to live music, but there is a subset (myself included at the time) that were so worked up over the equipment that if you ask them about spending money on a night out at a jazz club or the symphony or a rock concert or whatever you would probably just get a blank stare.
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Jul 15, 2009 22:33
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Audiot posted:Come to think of it, who wants in on the ground floor of a company making/ selling audiophile grade circuit breakers? Untapped market here! Too late, Bro. http://www.audiophiles-hifi.de/ Click on the Klangmodul III link I guess if you're going to run dedicated AC lines to your "listening" or, even better, "audition" room, what's another $50 or so?
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Jul 22, 2009 01:31
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