RMAF 2018 - 50 Year of Being an Audiophile: John Atkinson

[@geickmei]

John I super enjoyed this presentation. Met you during your Hi Fi News days in England. Didn't realize all of this - thanks! Gary Eickmeier

[@frankgeeraerts6243]

HIFI News & record review.............What a souvenir !!!! I was fond of it ...

[@out4lox262]

a great man.

[@bassmaster1953]

ME TOO. 50 years of chasing the rabbit down the hole....DAMNED RABBIT!

[@brydon10]

Spotify uses 320kb/s Ogg Vorbis, not MP3. Thanks for the talk John. I love your reviews and measurements.

[@giorgioisgaming5814]

Super interesting life story - what a great guy this man is 👍🏻

[@andyandy2684]

YEAH!!! 1st view and 1st like! And 1st to comment. Great presentation...as usual. Thank You.

[@bobc3895]

I've had run ins with management just because they didn't understand what I did and thought they could just put me into a box, they all ended up badly bruised and I outlasted all but the last one show was "special". I was thinking about retiring and decided I really didn't have to deal with this fool. I left and enjoyed hearing about the department falling apart and his futile efforts to make it perform the way he thought it should. The only thing this fooled lacked was an MBA but he still managed to pretty much destroy whatever he tried to "fix".

[@JEG6919]

He has provided useful speaker measurements for Stereophile for years. The End.

[@Oneness100]

One downfall of the audiophile industry is the lack of expertise and attention to room acoustics and what makes great room treatment, how to figure out where to play the treatment, how much do you need, etc. etc. The room is probably about 50% of what you are hearing and it's also preventing, in most cases, from hearing the details of your "System".

[@AndyBHome]

What was the name of the band and the album he recorded for DJM records?

[@markfischer3626]

I studied MQA and audio origami. It can't work as claimed. It violates Shannon Nyquist by 400 percent. You can't hear anything above 20 khz anyway. At best it's inaudible. At worst it creates new problems. It's a solution that doesn't work for a problem that doesn't exist.

[@nxxxxzn]

Spotify isn't MP3 but OGG Vorbis. They should stream Opus though...

[@edwardbarr1533]

Heardhim at a hi fi news lecture at the old Harrogate HiFi show in 1981 , the double doors of the room had to be opened to accommodate his head , a boorish grammar school boy whose sense of self importance was only surpassed by the National Debt. Could only take 10 minutes of him. Somethings never change.

[@joemartin6439]

Just for dreamers and not lunch pal guy so long rich guys

[@janedoe8533]

Mr. Atkinson, I just started a new tube amplifier manufacturing company. How much will you charge me to say my amplifiers are great. I would guess a sliding scale. So much for class D, class C, class B and class A. Doubt I can afford you to say it's class A. We will talk. See ya at the next show. We need a safe word, how about rumplestilskin. This way you will know me. Thank you.

[@Borednlonely]

Blind listening is a waste of time

[@humanbass]

Tell this to a blind person "your hearing is a waste of time because you can't see how fancy the gear is"

[@Borednlonely]

There’s always a smart ass who just has to be a completeidiot. I was obviously talking in refernce to an audiophile deciding hifi Gear purely based on a blind test. I’m listening to music like any other fun thing in life. Not measuring sound as an engineer.

[@jamieanderson7757]

@@humanbass At least I got your joke - great comment!

[@Audfile]

Giant bag of wind.

[@kirkcunningham6146]

This guy is very full of himself, always has been. I appreciate his knowledge and experience however, he's also a snake oil salesman...

[@jonathansturm4163]

I suspect many people don't have a good word for you. I do. Twat!

[@kirkcunningham6146]

@@jonathansturm4163 you feel better now sweetheart? Do yourself a favor fuck face and move along...you wanna play the childish name game, go right ahead. Let's see how far you get...

[@Audfile]

@@jonathansturm4163 oh dear heavens!

[@miroslawswigon4464]

@@kirkcunningham6146 "...he's also a snake oil salesman" - You said right! It is truth.