Some things needs to be cleared up here...
- The "mass market" is extremely uneducated about anything resembling a complex topic (I've had people argue to me that evolution doesn't exist because their pets haven't "evolved").
Do you see where you called people that buy a product you dislike "uneducated about anything resembling a complex topic"? That would actually be a childishly baseless personal attack
First off, you started that sentence by twisting my words into something I never said in the first place. Those are your words, not mine. Secondly, it's not baseless because I provided proof for what I said
immediately after what I said (it's an
actual argument I had with a P.E. instructor at my old high school). The news has always been sensationalist in one way or another for this exact reason; most people are uninterested in spending additional time and effort to learn about complex issues unless they're invested in the issue for one reason or another. Third, what I said isn't a personal attack. If I was personally attacking you, I would have tried to discredit you ("You're an idiot, therefore you're wrong" is a personal attack) as opposed to discrediting your argument. I can see where you might have gotten confused because discrediting your argument
required me to attack people in general, but you're still wrong about it being a personal attack. In fact, in the very next sentence, I
specifically excluded you from this "personal attack" with
2. We aren't the "mass market"
Therefore, on no grounds can you possibly claim what I said was a personal attack against you.
On the other hand, you have the nerve and the gall to, immediately before and right after (incorrectly) accusing me of throwing out personal attacks, make quite a few of your own!
Anyone with even fairly decent reading comprehension knows that adverbs are important.
A rude and baseless insult that had nothing to do with the credibility of my argument whatsoever.
Yeah brah, smash the system, down with Beats!!!!
Obvious strawman; I guess if you can't address my actual argument or philosophy, you can always make a silly sounding version and mock it.
your self-righteous crusade to convince people that your personal and subjective preferences are more correct than theirs.
I don't see how calling someone self-righteous is anything other than an insult.
Aside from that, I am not trying to say that my preferences are any greater than someone else's. If you want a headphone that looks really good regardless of how they sound, then that's your choice. However, my argument is that just because a headphone fulfills someone's preferences doesn't make it a good headphone.
Think of it as if we were arguing about doors. The primary function of a door is to let people in when it is open and act as a wall when it is closed. A door, regardless of how great it looks or how well it matches the building, is not a good door if it is six inches wide and falls over if you lean against it, regardless of how much it suits your preferences. The same applies for headphones. If it does not perform its primary function well, then it is not a good headphone, regardless of how many secondary functions it performs well. This is an entirely objective qualification that one can apply to anything. The only murky area here is that how well a headphone performs its primary function is subjective as well as objective. However, a headphone can be objectively measured in a variety of areas, and in these areas that can be measured, Beats perform atrociously. Measurements can be produced to show that Beats generally are very muddy and unclear, even if the person listening to them may not be able to subjectively notice this. This has nothing to do with what I prefer, but what objective science shows.
And as for you, streetdragon, I do not argue that different people have different preferences when it comes to different things. My point is that this is totally irrelevant when it comes to judging the performance of a headphone, which is an entirely objective matter. The Stax SR-009 is usually held to be the "best" headphone in technical performance in the world, despite the fact that its specific sound signature might not be to the majority's "preference".
And as for accusing you of being childish? I think that saying "no, you" to someone's argument over and over again instead of addressing the argument is pretty childish, which is basically exactly what you did to me for half a page.
You two are literally crying out that you're the ones being victimized, in the same breath that you're doing the same thing that you're decrying (that I never even did in the first place).
