What is your experience with the law of diminishing returns ?


As subjective as it might be. Personally, I have not encountered it yet.
inna

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So you are saying every time you spent more on something and did a comparison , the more expensive item sounded better ? One in a million odds of that happening . 
Elizabeth . It is in response to the ops question . I can only think he has tried a few pieces to have that experience .
All it took for me to figure out more money does not mean better sound was having the realization that a professional studio does not have such a component called a preamp . I visited a studio when my step father was recording a cd . I was in the control room listening and asked the engineer what preamp they used and he laughed at me , I was picking his brain about hifi for my system . He told me I needed to get a volume pot and I'm good. Took his advice and it has worked out quite nice .
There have been times I have tried preamps since that day 15 years ago . Tried a $7000 marantaz, trusty old volume pot sounded better . Handful of other preamps along the way as well . So glad I came to the realization on whats important to me . It allowed me to buy speakers that were out of my budget