Audioassholeitius

[NiagaraPete]

I’m going to admit I suffered with audioassholeitius for many years. Coming to this site was like looking behind the curtain on the Wiz of Oz. No more audio delusions, well maybe still some but most are now bad dreams.

How about you?

 

[Mojo Warrior]

Welcome to ASR.

It's like AA for hi fi.

 

[pseudoid]

Proof Positive that Critical Thinking will always trump outdo Emotional Reasoning!
But I will not dare to ask your definition is (of that esoteric word you used) and google search has just one entry that points to this link. weird.

It is pretty easy having that esoteric attitude when people ask you for help selecting audio hardware.
But I learned back in the days when Bose901s were quite the fad. I could not explain to people to stay away from such processed, squeezed, convoluted speakers. No one would listen... to my advice.

 

[Doodski]

I’m going to admit I suffered with audioassholeitius for many years. Coming to this site was like looking behind the curtain on the Wiz of Oz. No more audio delusions, well maybe still some but most are now bad dreams.

How about you?

I was pretty much purely subjective in my sales approach of home audio gear for 9 years and then I returned to a technical institute and got a education in electronics and repaired stuff for 15 years till I went to work in a industrial manufacturing setting. I can say being subjective about it was like being blind as a bat compared to now. I had some hang ups about electronics and simply was not able to imagine what the stuff actually does. Not surprising considering the sophistication of the technology and the systems involved.

 

[sweetchaos]

I can say being subjective about it was like being blind as a bat compared to now.

Amen.

 

[VMAT4]

Yep. From about 1988 to about until about 2018 I was subjective. I believed in tubes and Class A amplifiers. Thirty years that I should have known better. I got into this hobby in 1979. Then I was all about specs. In 1988 I got gullible and believed what a salesman had to say over what I learned in school. What a dope I can be.

 

[AdamG]

I never ever bought speakers from a white van! And the Bose Cubes were a Christmas gift and I had no choice but to say I loved them.

 

[JJB70]

I find in most hobbies it is best not to ask serious hobbyists for advice if you are looking for guidance. Ask a serious cyclist for advice about bicycles you are likely to get chapter and verse on why bikes not meeting their own ideas are junk. Ditto cooks if you ask about knives, watch enthusiasts if you ask about watches etc. Most people just want something that works, won't cost the earth and which maybe has a bit of pride of ownership, and in just about any interest I know of you don't need to spend much for that. My father was a lifelong golfing nut and never spent much on clubs yet I know quite a few people who have spent $$$$$$$$$$s on trendy clubs and struggle to hit the ball.

 

[AudioJester]

Iam not admitting to any past crimes against hifi!

 

[Chrispy]

I've been schooled enuf over the years to not even go there for the most part these days....this site is just one of a few where sanity tends to prevail (but not always).

 

[AdamG]

I've been schooled enuf over the years to not even go there for the most part these days....this site is just one of a few where sanity tends to prevail (but not always).

We can’t be perfect

 

[nc42acc]

There are audio assholes in both camps, subjective and objective.

 

[mhardy6647]

Welcome to ASR.

It's like AA for hi fi.

No... that'd be... AA.

 

[preload]

Proof Positive that Critical Thinking will always trump outdo Emotional Reasoning!

That actually isn't true. They're both important contributors to human behavior.

 

[Ata]

I have a fetish for all things Sony -- there, I said it.

 

[AudioJester]

I have a fetish for all things Sony -- there, I said it.

Damn man, what kind of sicko are you?

 

[pseudoid]

Damn man, what kind of sicko are you?

Less sicko than his neighbor that still proudly drives around in his AmericanMotors Pacer.

 

[mhardy6647]

I have a fetish for all things Sony -- there, I said it.

better than having pantophobia -- defined by famous 1960s pop psychologist Dr. Lucy van Pelt as "the fear of everything" in A Charlie Brown Christmas.

(which was also Charlie Brown's reply to Lucy's query: "Do you think you have pantophobia, Charlie Brown?", once she defined it)

 

[egellings]

I may have coined a new word-assolocity! Say it with me! Assolocity! It's the property that makes someone an a-hole.

 

[pseudoid]

I may have coined a new word-assolocity! Say it with me! Assolocity! It's the property that makes someone an a-hole.

... instantly? (as in veLOCITY part of your new word).