All serious users and hardcore geeks (PPC, etc.) will have a chance to get together on September 15 & 16, 2001 near O'Hare airport in Chicago. The event will be HHC 2001, the HP handheld users conference, and will be the last of its kind in the US until if and when HP brings out another new fancy handheld, which at the moment is very unlikely. All the details on the conference and preregistration for it are available on the official conference web page here.
Next thing they'll tell you is CDs rot your brain (don't they?).
Long live the Licorice Pizza!
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What's wrong with the article is that the author gave very little opinion on what he heard and instead focused more on a few extreme cases of audiophile nervosa and made himself a marketing mouthpiece for people like Mark Levinson (the man, not the company).
Whether somebody has a stereo system worth $100 or $100,000 doesn't make any difference. If you have fun listening to music, it's all that matters. Audiophiles tend to want to get more of a sense of hearing the live event and be able to listen for hours at a time if they want. If it helps them experience more of the emotion of the music, they like it better. What's wrong with that?
The ones that really ought to be shown for what they are are the jerks making and selling the "audio jewelry" that sounds like crap. They're busy pushing fancy faceplates instead of selling music. Pardon the flamebait, but Bose is the absolute worst IMO, contrary to what people who've been blinded by their marketing savvy have been led to believe. You can do so much better for less. But I digress.
Think of all those trading in their cars every year or two, spending tens of thousands of dollars to get the latest toys. How's that any different from a shutterbug who has to have the latest great lenses and other photo accessories, or the guy changing expensive stereo components every few years? Closer to home, how about all you Slashdotters with more computer stuff than you know what to do with?
When somebody gives me a weird look and tells me I'm stupid for owning a high end turntable and lots of records and that Ceedees are so much better, I consider it reverse snobbery. It's kind of like somebody telling me I ought to be using Windows because it's so superior. You and I know better.
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All serious users and hardcore geeks (PPC, etc.) will have a chance to get together on September 15 & 16, 2001 near O'Hare airport in Chicago. The event will be HHC 2001, the HP handheld users conference, and will be the last of its kind in the US until if and when HP brings out another new fancy handheld, which at the moment is very unlikely. All the details on the conference and preregistration for it are available on the official conference web page here.
Next thing they'll tell you is CDs rot your brain (don't they?). Long live the Licorice Pizza!
Whether somebody has a stereo system worth $100 or $100,000 doesn't make any difference. If you have fun listening to music, it's all that matters. Audiophiles tend to want to get more of a sense of hearing the live event and be able to listen for hours at a time if they want. If it helps them experience more of the emotion of the music, they like it better. What's wrong with that?
The ones that really ought to be shown for what they are are the jerks making and selling the "audio jewelry" that sounds like crap. They're busy pushing fancy faceplates instead of selling music. Pardon the flamebait, but Bose is the absolute worst IMO, contrary to what people who've been blinded by their marketing savvy have been led to believe. You can do so much better for less. But I digress.
Think of all those trading in their cars every year or two, spending tens of thousands of dollars to get the latest toys. How's that any different from a shutterbug who has to have the latest great lenses and other photo accessories, or the guy changing expensive stereo components every few years? Closer to home, how about all you Slashdotters with more computer stuff than you know what to do with?
When somebody gives me a weird look and tells me I'm stupid for owning a high end turntable and lots of records and that Ceedees are so much better, I consider it reverse snobbery. It's kind of like somebody telling me I ought to be using Windows because it's so superior. You and I know better.