High End Audio... Really?

[spiritofmusic]

High heels and cable looms behind $500k towers of gear? Yeah, nothing could go wrong there.

 

[spiritofmusic]

I think the last audiophile who actually scored was sometime in the 1990's, and that only because he was mistaken for a Hollywood producer.

I think Gen X have correctly prioritised having sex over doing fuses A/Bs.

 

[bonzo75]

I think Gen X have correctly prioritised having sex over doing fuses A/Bs.

So @Blue58 is not Gen X?

 

[spiritofmusic]

Nope, he's an Edwardian.

 

[the sound of Tao]

Nope, he's an Edwardian.

As in a dresser?

 

[spiritofmusic]

No, just that he's been an audiophile forever.

 

[bonzo75]

Most audiophiles are from the Edwardian, Victorian, or Georgian era

 

[spiritofmusic]

Audiophilia ages you. In the space of two decades in the hobby, I've gone from young (lol) hip (lol x2) Boomer, to crusty Victorian. Well, I literally live in Victoria Chapel 1861.

 

[analogsa]

AUDIONICE HIGH END SHOW 2020 / in Bangkok (Thailand)

If one insists on a home audition is there a fine payable to the show?

 

[cjfrbw]

When the prices are obscene, you might as well go all the way.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Please stop the objectifying posts.

How do we ever expect to attract women and millennials to this hobby with low class sports bar posts like this?

 

[bonzo75]

How do we ever expect to attract women and millennials to this hobby with low class sports bar posts like this?!?!

Ron let's keep the sensible people out of this hobby. Get the women and millennials into food, music, and investing.

 

[spiritofmusic]

Well, I think those ladies are delightful
And I mean that
...is THAT ok, Ron?

 

[bonzo75]

Btw Ron, do @Tango and @Lagonda get back some of their deducted points? They stayed out of this thread

 

[Ron Resnick]

Btw Ron, do @Tango and @Lagonda get back some of their deducted points? They stayed out of this thread

I was happy not to see them posting on this thread.

 

[bonzo75]

I was happy not to see them posting on this thread.

Just for clarity, everyone's jokes are not directed at the woman but the ridiculousness of those who think putting such a woman before gear is going to sell more gear. Even more ridiculous if that is true

 

[the sound of Tao]

Just for clarity, everyone's jokes are not directed at the woman but the ridiculousness of those who think putting such a woman before gear is going to sell more gear. Even more ridiculous if that is true

Definitely all about satire and not learing Ron, just crazy that people think that draping people over gear works for selling speakers. Audiophiles already do intense gear lust and desire and don’t need any additional selling up. It is even more silly that because it is so meaningless an addition to the scene that then there are no appropriate ways to then get the models to interact in a natural way with the gear. As for putting collars around the models... that is where the deepest wrong is. Genuinely going for satire Ron and also avoiding just hopping on my soap box (I save that for subjective v objective discussions) but I get your point that it seems as objectifying women but in truth it’s making fun of the people who thought it was a good idea to put them there and in a collar in the first place.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Just for clarity, everyone's jokes are not directed at the woman but the ridiculousness of those who think putting such a woman before gear is going to sell more gear. Even more ridiculous if that is true

I understand that, and I agree.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Definitely all about satire and not learing Ron, just crazy that people think that draping people over gear works for selling speakers. Audiophiles already do intense gear lust and desire and don’t need any additional selling up. It is even more silly that because it is so meaningless an addition to the scene that then there are no appropriate ways to then get the models to interact in a natural way with the gear. As for putting collars around the models... that is where the deepest wrong is. Genuinely going for satire Ron and also avoiding just hopping on my soap box (I save that for subjective v objective discussions) but I get your point that it seems as objectifying women but in truth it’s making fun of the people who thought it was a good idea to put them there and in a collar in the first place.

Thank you, the sound of Tao.

 

[rando]

I find it interesting the show with greatest attendance of women in recent memory was also one with live models. Moreover, everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves (by all accounts I've seen).

The last month or so I've dug through the legacy threads on this site fairly well. Bears in banana smugglers and roundly enjoyed comments about toe in etc. are not in the same league. Not to say I disagree with the point chosen to wedge a foot in the door here.