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Post Subject: Mags aren't about "truth" -- they're about entertainmentPosted by Gregm on: 2/21/2006
...IMO, at least. I strongly believe the name of the publication game is entertainment and the vehicle is audio-visual hardware "news" & "opinion" & pictures.
 guy sergeant wrote:
I stopped paying any attention to the ravings of magazines like TAS and Stereophile (and our English equivalents) many years ago. I'm just surprised when I encounter people who take what they say seriously enough to become annoyed by it. Maybe TAS and Stereophile are still considered to be important by people in the U.S. They aren't here.
Guy
Amazingly, some people are influenced. They refer to what X golden-ear or Y guru reviewer has to say as important, ground-breaking news... Uncanny!

I suspect that, sometimes, such persons' IQ is far superior to their EQ in matters audio... (but am no specialist in the matter). This probably ties in with what many people observe as signs of "moronity"...Smile


Treading on a thin line, I'd like to put forth an impression I have about the point where one "(stops)...paying attention to the ravings of magazines like TAS and Stereophile...":
I believe reaching such a level requires maturity, thorough understanding of self, and knowledge of things (as opposed to having information about things).
Of course I'm not asserting this is limited to "audio" or that it relates ONLY to disregarding TAS & other mags, etc -- just that these are indications, even if trivial in the larger scheme of things.

Even in audio, the state of confusion (confusing fact with emotion), of not understanding -- or resisting knowledge -- is an indication of people who have not yet reached a point of deeper learning about life (and no doubt I'm one of these, as it were). This state of things shows even in the simple way of how some are influenced by, say, mags... or many other things... for example how good/bad/indifferent/~ reproduced music can sound (let alone how it should).
End of philosophy.

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