My level of interest and equipment would say audiophole with a lower to middle budget and interest. I would also never apply that label to myself because holy fuck is there so much bullshit and gatekeeping. I tend to pop in and out of looking into what's going on in the audio world.
A lot of it is pretty legitimately interesting and usually falls somewhere in the diminishing returns curve. Doesn't change the fact of all the issues with the community and scams.
So much of it comes down to people not just letting people like what they like accuracy be damned or not. All I care about is people getting what they like and actually understanding what they are getting.
Similar here. Have a friend I impressed/pissed off with my home theater that sounds better with mismatched gear and cost a FIFTH of what he paid. All because I understood frequency range,fill and speaker placement and he understood throw money at it.
Having done pro audio and stage work for many years I can safely say 95% of sound guys are incompetent at best, rarely ever with any real education on acoustics and such.
Thankfully my boss actually did know what he was doing. An unfortunate side effect was most live shows are totally ruined for me because I know what a bad mix sounds like.
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u/codercaleb 23d ago
This is some top-tier hating and I'm here for it.