Remember folks! Get me your "
Digital Filters Test" results :-). Thanks to everyone who has already responded with the survey submission so far... Great work. Final results could be very interesting; keep the submissions coming.
Over the years I have traveled to other parts of the world and have enjoyed visiting "tech malls" as I just love technology, science, and advancement. There are huge complexes of geek-toys in Beijing (check out
Zhongguancun), or of course Tokyo's
Akihabara. You will find the occasional audiophile hangout at these places but admittedly rare... Not surprising I guess given how small a market for what really are luxury niche "audiophile" products (at least the "high-end" specialty shops). A few years ago I showed some pictures of Singapore's
Adelphi Mall and I must say that this place still stands out as something special for the audiophile (not to mention places like
SunTec and Sim Lim Square not far away in Singapore).
Now as you know, I'm primarily an
objectivist when it comes to hardware so I guess it might surprise some that I also will check out the audiophile haunts over the years (like
here and
here) without getting
too disgusted by the usual myths and pseudoscience promulgated. For me, it is a hobby that's fun and merges my love of music (the "spirituality" of the experience and where the subjective enjoyment resides), and the desire to understand how the world and technology truly works (where the objective side lives). The two IMO must exist in harmony, each finding balance in fulfilling the emotional side of
being, yet not lost in the realities of this world and what just
is.