Hifi, why bother?

[Mark Hennessy]

....I no longer see audiophiles as "phools" - I honestly feel that some/many of them are victims. But if it wasn't audio, there's no shortage of other industries out there willing to take their money. Funny old world...

Hi All.

I see the ethics of catering to audiophool desires are being broached, can those of us who know that these people are being manipulated honestly say that, if for instance, we had in our hand, say a yellow print, jubilee, Mullard ECC82, and a Phool waved a £50 note under our nose for it, we would not snatch the cash?

Now come on

Thanks,
Amie.

I absolutely would not do that. Never. No way.

Perhaps that's stupid of me, but I could not and would not rip off anyone, and especially not an audiophile. I'd rather be poor but be able to sleep at night. Which is why I work in professional audio rather than hi-fi.

As a general point to all, I've never liked the term "audiophile", but I accept it is the common-usage term for them. But I dislike the pejorative versions like "audiophools" or "phools" even more. So let's drop those, please. Mocking them only serves to alienate us engineers even further, which makes it easier for the people selling the wacky $$$ stuff that is the real problem in all this.

Mark