There is no doubt that this site has helped very much in making certain decisions, and many good ones on gear, but man does it have to be that expensive to make a mistake on a power conditioner or cables, I am lucky enough to not to lose huge, but I believe that the real tweaky stuff needs to come down considerably in price before I can totally believe in the industry again--and ive noticed that this trend has added to the sickness even more over the last few years with the access to the internet. however,I have to stick with the fact that it is the music we strive for not the brand name of the equipment. Maybe we need to go on audiophile strike or something to bring the price of brass spikes and such things down from 200$ a set to a more resonable amount for a couple of chunks of brass it just seems semi-ridiculous at some point.
Audio Hype!!
Well I have to be honest,I love high end equipment and all the fun tweaking,and trading,and trying out new stuff. However, it has much hype behind it because I think that we all understand by now that--we are never totally happy with any one piece of gear. By hype I mean we read great reviews of some cable and the miracles that it is suppose to create,but we know deep down(if you have any experiance in this hobby)that it never stands up to our expectations once we use it for some period of time--that is just an example but I believe this holds true to all equipment--and then we sell and try the next flavor of the week which is normally just a side step VS. an upgrade of the last piece we owned. Its a vicious cycle does it ever end?(I know that question is like asking why the earth exists and there is no answer)However, my question is have we just created this illusion of what we wish 99% of the products out their should do, while at the same time damaging our checkbooks to prove the illusion wrong?