5 DUMB THINGS Audiophiles Believe!

So, five

dumb

things

audiophiles

believe

, if you thought I went a little harsh with the five reasons why your Hi-Fi sucks, you better buckle up princess, we've got some audiophile feathers to ruffle, so Look, we've all been around musicians and musically talented people who can somehow just pick up a guitar and tune it by ear or even hum or think of the melody of a song in their head, pick up that same guitar or sit at the piano. and voila, playing exactly that melody perfectly, that is a real thing and even more so is what is called Perfect Pitch.

I have seen this in young children and teenagers where complex chords are played on a piano and they are able to identify or even sing each note that makes up that complex chord without looking at the piano, it is amazing and That, my friends, is impressive, but it is not what we are going to talk about with this particular example. What I'm going to call nonsense is this notion that some random audiophile thinks he has or has a golden ear, ironically, most of the time. they were awarded that crown oh King in the castle King in the castle I have a chair I have a chair and I can identify the most impressive details in their latest strange setup they bought from Sith audio, whether it's tying moon rocks to their speaker cables lifting their speaker wires from the floor that no longer touch the floor or perhaps by applying a special formula made by their cousin Ted in their garage and applying it to their CDs, they

believe

that with their golden ear and only their golden ear that no one else has they can easily identify the key differences. with adjustments to their system and when you ask them carefully what those differences are, what are you hearing?

They often greet you with a solid word that usually revolves around a notion we're also going to make fun of called Pratt, okay, don't get me wrong. Here, when a system works great and the music sounds good, it's easy to declare that particular system has rhythm and timing, but here's my problem with that: a group of kids listening to The Wiggles in a room playing at 110 decibels put the speakers on your shitty Samsung TV and just watch what the kids are doing, they're all shaking their heads, tapping their toes and shaking their tail feathers while having the time of their lives, perfectly illustrates how crazy it is to believe that your emotional response to a particular song on a particular system somehow means that that particular system now has Pratt and everyone else is missing out, not to mention I think it's pretty funny that when I realize this, it's not even the audio files that are overusing Pratt, it's actually all the guys that are selling garbage to the audio files and unfortunately we believe them, you mean Johnny, if I buy your latest stuffed power cable with the blood of Beanie Babies, now and only now will my system finally have Pratt, well that's it, Bob, but only after it has burned for 375 hours, which far exceeds our return policy.

Will it be cash or check? I don't have any problems with the EQ, although I don't have one. It seems to me that equalizers have been treated recently like in the end, everything will be a way to fix literally everything your system sucks, buy an equalizer, your breath stinks, buy an equalizer, your wife went and shot your dog, writes a country song about buying an equalizer, shot the dog in the face with a pew pew. and now I need to buy an EQ for out of tune guitars, okay, they'll just equalize it. Being specific, one thing I see all the time is if a less than positive review is published and it's backed by objective data showing that there are major problems with the speaker crossover design, there's always a guy you know, look closely man, that speaker is really amazing and totally fixed by my cousin Billy with his equalizer, you reviewers don't know what the hell you're talking about man. um no, I mean, look, I can't comment on whether you like the speaker better after equipping it and of course depending on the specific problem you may have made a big difference in how it sounds, even for the better, but this is my period, what you didn't do is solve what the problem was.

It's like throwing a Band-Aid on a gushing wound and calling it the arrival of day. Phase issues are much more complex than simply raising or lowering the level of a particular bandwidth with EQ and calling it a day, so yeah, EQ all you want and if you like what you hear, that's great, but don't talk about it like you've fixed everything because well, you didn't, you just liked it better. Now, that's great, so you just bought some shiny new speakers and even took the time to open the manual when it comes to speaker placement. Let me guess, they recommended 12 to 18 inches away from the wall and creating an equilateral triangle between you and the speakers.

No, my friends, it's the quickest way to end up with mediocre sound and mediocre fidelity, unless a speaker It is intentionally designed to be placed near a wall, the wall is the last place you want a speaker from all the emails I receive. Getting to where fellow

audiophiles

need help. This is the first thing we discuss and often the only thing that changes everything about how your system works. Surveying the speakers away from the walls is the first step and often the final step leading to what we describe as The Soundstage, that's right, there is no longer a pair of speakers in the room, there is a performance of musicians in specific locations and all of those locations now play outside of the speaker's location.

If you haven't seen our batch video, that would be the first one. take a real step to make changes to your system and best of all it's free and lastly and possibly the most egregious of all the

dumb

things

audiophiles believe or say is the notion that there is only one thing you need to buy, be it a DAC or a preamplifier or a power amplifier or even speakers that will solve every audio problem in your audiophile world. This is a huge problem and it's one of those things that fills up my email box every day.

I have seen this so many times. which I can often identify just by the subject line which usually starts with what do you think about inserting whatever equipment you are wanting at that particular moment and of course when I take the time to look at their systems which are usually decent or Even Well, I don't see any acoustic treatment, terrible speaker placements, and a host of other major issues that you should really look into before buying anything else, and the irony continues: They usually thank me for the time I've put into them and tried to point out all the problems. these elephants in the room and a week later they buy whatever stupid thing they wanted to buy in the first place and they're still wondering why their foundation sucks.

We need to start seeing Hi-Fi as a complete system and stop treating it as the only thing that matters in a car is the accelerator pedal. Sure, stepping on the gas is a lot of fun, but if that particular car doesn't have a steering wheel, then tell me how much fun it will be, so yeah, what's your list? I'm curious to know what you think, what are the dumb things the audio files believe or say. Leave your comments below and we'll see you, crazy Knuckleheads, in the next video.