Re: A psychologist's view of Hi-Fi fetishism

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From: Richard Crowley
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:11

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"David Grant" wrote ...
> Interesting article. I work at an A/V consulting firm and we have a 
> relatively hard-core audiophile on staff. He recently brought in a Monster 
> power-conditioner and demoed it for some of the staff in the office, 
> stating afterwards that we should begin specifying it on all our projects. 
> While such equipment can help in specific situations he obviously didn't 
> understand the theory behind its operation. Fortunately he's a great 
> salesman (his position is sales) and he doesn't do any design work.

Salesmen seem to be more easily duped by other salesmen.
You'd think they would be more clued-in to the deceptive practices,
but maybe they are in denial.  :-)

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From: "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net>
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Subject: Re: A psychologist's view of Hi-Fi fetishism
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:11:18 -0800
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