Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Case 1: A home studio musician who's just starting out is looking for suitable studio monitors. He looks and sees two pairs of speakers: a pair of speakers from PreSonus and a pair of speakers from AudioEngine. He may check the reviews and may see that the AudioEngines are more popular, so he gets those, NOT knowing that the AudioEngine speakers are not made for his intended application. He should have gotten the PreSonus.
Case 2: A person looking to upgrade his listening experience to a more analytical one for taste visits the community and sees drops for two headphones: the AKG K612 PRO and the AKG Q701. Seeing reviews saying that the Q701 is analytical but too sibilant, the person decides to pick up the K612 PRO, which was made not for music consumption but music production. The Q701, however, was indeed made for music consumption. Most likely, though, this purchase will work out just fine.
Now, if they had merged the two communities and named it "Pro Audio", both audiophiles and audio professionals would feel "safe" going into the community since professionals know that what they need is there and audiophiles would follow suit since they buy both Hi-Fi gear AND pro audio gear. However, since they merged the two and called it "Audiophile", not only would audio professionals be hesitant about entering the community (I.e. The impression is only hi-if gear is here), but Massdrop also risks alienating and possibly insulting pro audio customers they currently have as it demonstrates a lack of ability to distinguish between audiophiles and audio professionals (I.e. "'Pro audio', 'audiophile', meh, all of you are the same...").
Son then you're talking about people coming newly to the site, I suppose. Those people need to marketed to effectively in any case. And the copy about what the community is when you visit it can adequately differentiate the problem that you seem to be addressing, IMO.
It's a word, in the end. What surrounds that word is ultimately more important, and when it is a choice to merge themto better serve us, someone is going to be offended- that's the nature of the world today. I choose to look at the substance of thing, rather than being distracted by the covering. And as long as that substance is better, I feel better served by their decisions.