arnyk
Repeatedly defended arguments with personal attacks.
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I disagree and it goes to what I am trying to express that technically superior does not automatically equate to overall superiority, as some people seem to suggest, when we are talking about equipment whose function in the home is to provide enjoyment.
Classic muscle car <> Modern sports car
Automatic mechanical watch <> quartz watch <> digital watch
Vinyl <> CD
Tube <> SS
One could argue that the latter entries are all technically superior but there are plenty of people who would argue that they are inferior for the purpose for which they purchased them. This is dismissed (quite condescendingly by some) but these people are not wrong. For some the gestalt of HOW the results are produced is a legitimate criteria in evaluating what is “superior.”
Classic example of moving the goalposts. The discussion was about the technical performance of vinyl, and I was forthrightly told that I was "wrong".
Without anybody admitting any error, all of a sudden the discussion shifts to legacy sports cars.
Reality is that there is an extant road track test that shows a recent Honda Accord kicking the pitewee out of a nicely restored Jaguar XKE. It turns out that there has been THAT much technical improvement in automotive technology in the past 30-50 years. However, there has not been any technical improvement at all in the performance of LPs over a similar amount of time.