Mapman
All was well and then you brought in a bottle of wine.
Folks do in fact, agree on wine, BTW.... once they've had a couple bottles, they'll agree they're all loaded. Past that there
may be an argument or two on the sound of the music. ;-)
I think price does play a part in a thing being made well and performing well. So long as value is no consideration.
More importantly though is the synergy of the whole of things. The synergy of it all is also determined by the builder and we all call that preffs.
Personally, Ive heard boring rigs. Music which had me of a mind to leave it on only for ambience, or background as casual conversation took the lead. Music which sounded so bland as to simply not capture any part of me whatsoever. It wasnt the music either it was the rig playing it back. That was a system Id not have bought with someone elses money.
In general, price does indicate however broadly, its degree of performance. Wether that sort of performance is in fact your cup of tea or not, is another bag of worms.
Price also is a separator. It sets various devices into different boundaries. Lower the price and there are far more entries to be considered. Raise it and the air gets thin there pretty quickly. So too does the number of people who have gotten one for themselves. So theres some degree of ignorance or a veil surrounding the more costly affairs in audio.
Mix in the invisible threshold of diminishing returns, which has value underpinned to it, and performance itself then begins to decrease, subjectively if not altogether objectively.
The thing is this IMO, theres an awful lot of good to great out there, and it is made excellent by how its all put together a lot of the time.
Improving a pieces setup into a rigg for one thing may mean you have to use different cabling, or isolation gizmos, than you would for another thing to see them at their best. If no attention to individual setting up of different components is a part of the undertaking, then the results of injecting several likewise items will yield several differing results as one would expect going into such an event.
The cool factor is the attempt itself. The lets see what if we approach. Curiosity fuels every past time withits devotees, to this degree or that.
A more insightful endeavor would have taken longer and more moves to see which could be made to be at its best,, irrespective of the costs for each CDP. With one CDP using tubes, the tubes themselves could have been roled, despite the arguments of its modifications.
Perhaps a more pertinent foray would have been to have a few CDPs all of the same topology and closer in costs with which ..to contend.
Nevertheless, some experience and more importantly fun, was the result. Thats always a good thing. That is too, what its all about right? That fun thingy?
All was well and then you brought in a bottle of wine.
Folks do in fact, agree on wine, BTW.... once they've had a couple bottles, they'll agree they're all loaded. Past that there
may be an argument or two on the sound of the music. ;-)
I think price does play a part in a thing being made well and performing well. So long as value is no consideration.
More importantly though is the synergy of the whole of things. The synergy of it all is also determined by the builder and we all call that preffs.
Personally, Ive heard boring rigs. Music which had me of a mind to leave it on only for ambience, or background as casual conversation took the lead. Music which sounded so bland as to simply not capture any part of me whatsoever. It wasnt the music either it was the rig playing it back. That was a system Id not have bought with someone elses money.
In general, price does indicate however broadly, its degree of performance. Wether that sort of performance is in fact your cup of tea or not, is another bag of worms.
Price also is a separator. It sets various devices into different boundaries. Lower the price and there are far more entries to be considered. Raise it and the air gets thin there pretty quickly. So too does the number of people who have gotten one for themselves. So theres some degree of ignorance or a veil surrounding the more costly affairs in audio.
Mix in the invisible threshold of diminishing returns, which has value underpinned to it, and performance itself then begins to decrease, subjectively if not altogether objectively.
The thing is this IMO, theres an awful lot of good to great out there, and it is made excellent by how its all put together a lot of the time.
Improving a pieces setup into a rigg for one thing may mean you have to use different cabling, or isolation gizmos, than you would for another thing to see them at their best. If no attention to individual setting up of different components is a part of the undertaking, then the results of injecting several likewise items will yield several differing results as one would expect going into such an event.
The cool factor is the attempt itself. The lets see what if we approach. Curiosity fuels every past time withits devotees, to this degree or that.
A more insightful endeavor would have taken longer and more moves to see which could be made to be at its best,, irrespective of the costs for each CDP. With one CDP using tubes, the tubes themselves could have been roled, despite the arguments of its modifications.
Perhaps a more pertinent foray would have been to have a few CDPs all of the same topology and closer in costs with which ..to contend.
Nevertheless, some experience and more importantly fun, was the result. Thats always a good thing. That is too, what its all about right? That fun thingy?