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"9/11 Wasn't Real" <ilovesanta@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> Many of us are becoming increasingly aware of those audiophiles who
> show an extraordinary preoccupation with hi-fi equipment for its own
> sake. Contributors to as well as readers of HFN/RR have expressed
> irritation with this so-called lunatic fringe, which has been
> repeatedly criticized for being out of touch with reality.
>
> <snip most of this post for brevity's sake>
>
> As we would expect, rational assessment can do very little against
> such feelings; it is a poor weapon against the mystifications of
> fetishistic publicity. I might add that manufacturers who allow
> themselves to be exalted and aggrandized by fetishists in the same
> manner as their products are doing themselves a disservice. For they
> too are indulging in a form of narcissistic gratification and are
> lending yet further credibility to the lunatic fringe.
>
> >From Hi-Fi News and Record Review, October 1981
> http://www.heretical.com/miscella/zfetish.html

A precised version of this post, albeit somewhat tongue in cheek, can be had
by listening to Flanders' & Swan's song 'High Fidelity'.
Can't remember whether it's on their first album, 'At the Drop of a Hat' or
on their second, 'At the Drop of Another Hat'. Sorry.

ruff