Canny business, I think you guys bought a large swath of land from napoleon too?
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Is Harman Anti-Audiophile?
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We should set up a collection from everyone to build a tunnel under it when the time comes so that we can still import them.
Amazon delivery drones will fly right over the wall no problem.
But then you built a better one! And you value your democracy because we made you fight to build it...
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Too cold, no one wanted it.
Same for Alaska too. LOL
Is Harman Anti-Audiophile?
No.
No.
Your right the answer is no, they are true audiophiles as in better fidelity through proper research .. The aberrations are the caliphate that have infested the pursuit of better sound and redefined the term audiophile and indeed THEY might well rebel against harman.
Amen Thomas, my feelings exactly.
I was about to say, Maybe, but then so am I. LOL
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watchnerd
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Sorry, but I'm going to disagree.
In the minds of both the public (who snicker at audiophile foolishness), the willful denial of science among the extreme subjectivists, and the connivance of the audio media, they have coopted the term entirely.
It's akin to being in North Korea and complaining that Kim Jong Un's regime is not practicing true Marxism -- it's moot when the masses are saluting to the gurus and parroting the regime propaganda. At that point, you've already lost the war for mindshare.
Better to have a schism, make a different term.
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watchnerd
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Or just resurrect the term hi fidelity, which I think is also fitting with Harman's.
Many of the extreme subjectivists I've met aren't even interested in the concept of high fidelity or neutrality or faithfulness to the recording at all. They find the whole concept constraining to their freedom.
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That's pretty much the jist of what I get responded when discussing the premise of Hi Fi on sites such a CA. It tends to be an irrelevant idea.
I like the term high-fidelity, and I'm increasingly using it. The problem is that "fidelity" doesn't capture everything I strive for in my audio journey. The ultimate goal for me is to create an illusion - suspension of disbelief. This is not fidelity. This is fooling the brain into beleieving that I'm not listening to two speakers and two channels, but that I'm witnessing a spatial auditory event. This illusion doesn't exist objectively in the recording. It only arises in my brain.
Now of course, there may not be a conflict here. I perceive that I get a better illusion when the record is played back as faithfully as possible. But still, the ultimate goal for me goes beyond formal, narrow fidelity.
Now of course, there may not be a conflict here. I perceive that I get a better illusion when the record is played back as faithfully as possible. But still, the ultimate goal for me goes beyond formal, narrow fidelity.
Easy solution..
Obtain high fidelity
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