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luigicinco
35
Oct 7, 2016
You should have merged the Audiophile community into the Pro Audio, and not the other way around. Audiophiles have this thing of getting their gear from professional audio communities, but audio professionals stay away from audiophile gear since they know that audiophile gear tend towards the Hi-Fi direction. Professional audio gear and Hi-Fi gear are not the same. Besides, who ever heard of an audiophile looking for microphones? But you've definitely heard of audiophiles looking for professional studio monitor headphones.
ChuckDee
1906
Oct 8, 2016
luigicincoWhy does it matter? They merged them to better serve both, and as long as that's accomplished, the semantics of it seems trivial?
luigicinco
35
Oct 8, 2016
ChuckDeeIt's not about semantics... I present two cases that may happen when the two communities are merged, and drops for professional applications and consumer applications get mixed together.
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...").
ChuckDee
1906
Oct 8, 2016
luigicincoI understand what you're saying. I'm just saying that it's still just semantics. And your arguments can be ably covered by presentation, marketing., and a good copy editor, if that's truly our concern, rather than just plain elitism. Everyone that's currently here understands the communities and that the new merged one pertains to. Are you going to be confused by the nomenclature? Are you going to stop using Massdrop because of a name? I wouldn't think so.
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.
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