Well, at the higher end, audio equipment is both furniture and art (physical and audio sculpture), and thus provides the same sort of aesthetic pleasure that a painting we like does. So price is meaningless. When someone buys a painting for tens of thousands of dollars or more, do they kvetch that the cost of materials was only around $200, and the artist dashed it off in an afternoon? If I trust the sound of a system that has broken my bank more than I do a $10 boom box I picked up at Goodwill, then it will sound better to me (regardless of 'specs') and I will get mroe pleasure out of listening to it, no?
Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy
Not sure if anyone caught this, but it's quite the take down of some of the very expensive server/streamer stuff out there. It seems logical to me -- especially when he prices out what some of the internal components are -- but this is above my pay grade so I cannot confirm. It's here: https://youtu.be/MMSC9-qQ_K4
Wonder if others agree or disagree with the basic takedown.
Wonder if others agree or disagree with the basic takedown.