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Subject: Re: Re: Extra speakers and audio myths - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 06:08:36 EST
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inmet!muller    Mar 19 10:07:00 1984

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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.