Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[LuKreme]

On 9-Apr-2007, at 01:50, Mark Smith wrote:
> on 08.04.2007 at 10:34 Charlton Wilbur wrote
>
>> audiophiles -- it has nothing to do with music and everything to do
>> with stereo equipment
>
> and there's a piece of self-righteous inverted snobbery of the  
> highest order.

No it's not.  There's a huge difference between someone who puts  
fidelity above all other things and someone who puts MUSIC above all  
other things. I met someone in college who was a major league  
audiophile.  He used to buy multiple copies of the same recording  
(CD, Vinyl, Cassette, DAT) whenever possible so that he could 'prove'  
to people how vinyl was superior to digital (yeah, one of those).

> so, to love music you have to be disinterested in fidelity ?

Not disinterested, just not obsessed.  The Music lover cares about  
the music first and fidelity is simply an added bonus.

> does this kind of bigotry hold for photography too, or film ? (see  
> current alt. thread)

Probably, but there is a much large population, so far, in the  
audiophile camp than the 'photophile' camp.


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