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Old 11th Oct 2017, 6:28 pm   #76
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Default Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

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Originally Posted by GrimJosef View Post
The 'small picture' is that they will have parted with their money in return for pleasure and what's so bad about that ?
So it may be an example of a 'win-win' situation, then? The people who manufacture the equipment are kept employed; the advertising people who dream up spurious pseudo-scientific claims for the aforementioned equipment won't go short of a bob or two; it keeps a select band of retailers 'in on the act' in business...

The punters who wish to be one up on their chums and who purchase said equipment are happy because the serious money they have 'invested' in all this nonsense makes them feel good about themselves because it's obviously the best money can buy, innit? It says so on the Interweb and in the Hi-Fi magazines in W. H. Smith so it must be right.

But isn't it the same with watches? And cameras? And bicycles? And art (art being defined as 'what you can get away with'). And guess what? The magazines who publish articles about the benefits of all these 'must-have' consumables are kept going too, funded and nudged by the advertisers mentioned earlier. Why spoil a good game of tin whip by throwing a few facts and scientific evidence around?

Everyone's a winner, baybee...
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