Bono, Steve Jobs, etc.

Monte Davis montedavis at verizon.net
Sun Jan 10 13:14:23 CST 2010


Robin Landseadel sez:

> On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Joe Allonby [make that MD] wrote:

>> Bottom line: the Firm successfully markets graphite skis and tennis  
>> rackets
>> to a hundred consumers for every one who is skilled enough to use  
>> the extra
>> few percent of performance they enable. In the same way, they  
>> market the
>> narcissism of small differences in user interfaces and in music
>> reproduction. And we eat it up, don't we?

> But we do...

And I include you, by profession, among those few for whom it matters. Most
of us, most of the time, aren't listening intently enough, nor are we
listening in environments sonically clean enough, to hear what TONEaudio is
going on about.





  





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