superpanavision70mm
07-05-2006, 08:14 PM
Isn't it a strange world that we live in? I am not just talking about the world as in Earth, but the audio world as well....think about it like this....
Where else can you go and have so many opinions about so many things. The world of audio and home theater seems to harvest so many opinions and facts about stuff that it's mind blowing. Debates over speakers, speaker types, cables, cable types, components, amps and preamps vs. receivers, various debates on tweaks that work and things that don't work. This person swears that vinyl sounds better than CD, while another person thinks that the SACD sounds better than the CD, but doesn't like multichannel and feels that HDCD's are better, but then another person feels that it's really a matter of the mastering that makes the difference, but the debate is that maybe person A can't hear as well as person B. Argggggggh When does the madness end?
It's amazing to me that so many intellectual people can collectively share a hobby like this, yet the debates are just endless. In most hobbies people might have debates, but usually there is more evidence to prove which is which. For example...let's say your hobby is autoracing. Fine. Well, motor oil A is more expensive than motor oil B and is suppose to perform better. There might not be an exact way to prove that, but if the car using oil A does better than the one using oil B than maybe that's the case, but maybe it's the skill of the driver? Sure, so what if the same driver does a few laps using both types of oil and his car performs better with A...then it must be true. The same could be said about various gases, tires, tweaks to the engine, body etc.
In home theater we are only going by our ears instead and it's hard to find a true winner. We see which car finishes the victory lap, but how do we know the winner when it comes to sound?
Where else can you go and have so many opinions about so many things. The world of audio and home theater seems to harvest so many opinions and facts about stuff that it's mind blowing. Debates over speakers, speaker types, cables, cable types, components, amps and preamps vs. receivers, various debates on tweaks that work and things that don't work. This person swears that vinyl sounds better than CD, while another person thinks that the SACD sounds better than the CD, but doesn't like multichannel and feels that HDCD's are better, but then another person feels that it's really a matter of the mastering that makes the difference, but the debate is that maybe person A can't hear as well as person B. Argggggggh When does the madness end?
It's amazing to me that so many intellectual people can collectively share a hobby like this, yet the debates are just endless. In most hobbies people might have debates, but usually there is more evidence to prove which is which. For example...let's say your hobby is autoracing. Fine. Well, motor oil A is more expensive than motor oil B and is suppose to perform better. There might not be an exact way to prove that, but if the car using oil A does better than the one using oil B than maybe that's the case, but maybe it's the skill of the driver? Sure, so what if the same driver does a few laps using both types of oil and his car performs better with A...then it must be true. The same could be said about various gases, tires, tweaks to the engine, body etc.
In home theater we are only going by our ears instead and it's hard to find a true winner. We see which car finishes the victory lap, but how do we know the winner when it comes to sound?