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In article <1173369680.866857.202090@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
Karl Winkler <karlwinkler66@yahoo.com> wrote:
>However, they could discuss the way the gear is set up, i.e. speaker
>placement, acoustical treatments, etc. 

How you expect that to work? "Where do I place speakers in my almost, but
not quite square room?" 

>But instead, they talk mostly
>about the gear from the standpoint of religious fanaticism. Just like
>with politics. I think it's interesting that religion, politics and
>brands are often discussed with the same level of fervor.

So you think that talking about speaker placement or acoustical treatments
is much better use of ones time then talking about minute difference between
hifi equipment?

>> However, my guess is that for the technically inclined people it is much
>> easier to talk about features of equipment than to talk about, for example,
>> photography techniques.
>
>Yes, because photography techniques require work and real learning,
>along with getting off one's duff and *doing something*, while
>features of equipment requires rote memorization.

No, just pointing a photo camera and pressing the button is much less
work than listing the rather heavy high-end hifi equipment.

>> And even if the participants know the concepts to discuss a piece of music
>> or a photograph, there is such a wide range in tastes, that a discussion
>> may not go anywhere.
>
>True. However, it seems to me that more might be learned if people
>talked about attempts they've made, the trouble they found in trying
>it that way, the results they got, and what they learned. 

But how does that help? In talking about selecting hifi equipment or
about photography is is hard work to come up with general principles, and
most of those are already covered in books about the subject.

"What I did to take this picture", or "the hifi equipment I had in the past",
just isn't likely to stimulate discussion.

Just saying 'brand X' is best, is guaranteed to generate fireworks.


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