Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!muller From: muller@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Re: Extra speakers and audio myths - (nf) Message-ID: <1119@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:08:36 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1119 Posted: Tue Mar 20 06:08:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 00:34:21 EST Lines: 25 #R:tekig1:-157800:inmet:2600054:000:1126 inmet!muller Mar 19 10:07:00 1984 *** I seem to be responding to a lot your entries, Mr. Rogers. Once again, I wish to underline what you have said, and to add just a bit also. It is quite possible (maybe even probable) that some of the salesmen who help propagate technically invalid ideas are true believers in them, and not just out to sell equipment by knowingly fooling their customers. Most are not really technically trained and may be just as susceptible to the power of suggestion as their victims. It is quite easy to demonstrate that audio perceptions are strongly influenced by whether an effect in question has had attention called to it. An aggressive shop owner may take it all to heart and believe what he reads or is told because he wishes to be (known as) the "best" or most knowledgeble authority on high-end systems. And it is all to easy for those of us who ARE technically trained (?) to have big holes in our knowledge and be duped as well on one or another facet of this game. Now the engineers/manufacturers who propagate this kind of stuff... that is a whole 'nother game. They should know better. Thanks for the realism.