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In Reply to: Adding to the post concerning direction of asylum. posted by RAYDOG on January 25, 2002 at 18:40:06:
Unlike with wines, there is a semblance of an objective standard with audio: does it sound like music? I find it impossible to believe that everything that's not made by an esoteric company is bad. Basically the cultist ethic is promoted because it's economically required to keep the boutique companies/carriage trade in business. It's nice to keep the little companies alive but there's too damn many of them! There seem to be literally thousands at times. There used to be about fifty. Every time I look in on the Asylum people are touting some brand I've never heard of. Some, no doubt, are started by rich people as a hobby. They expect to lose money and don't mind doing so. Others are just microbreweries, repackaging Budweiser parts in an exotic case; they are like the early "high end" CD players that were just Phillips boxes with a couple new parts and a sexy faceplate. They are traded back and forth by the huge corporations who finance and market them. I'm afraid that my budget does not allow me to subsidize the manufacturers, so I wish our community would stop stigmatizing the affordable equipment of good design, even if it comes from, say, Sears.
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