A principle guiding the wise audiophile life


There is one law, or best said a principle, guiding the wise audiophile life :
 
What matter is not the gear pieces price or his design, it is up to our budget limit to pick the right stuff for ourselves and our needs.
 
What matter is the way we installed together the mechanical,electrical and acoustical working dimensions of any chosen system/room...
 
As a consequence of this principle this is his corollary:
 
The mechanical electrical and acoustical controls,devices,tweaks, parameters, cannot be replaced by one another  if we want to reach an optimal result in sound quality.
 
Vibrations/resonance controls cannot replace or be replaced by acoustics parameters controls or EMI shielding and grounding for example.
 
The greatest error we can do is buying and  just "plug and play". Then upgrading a piece part by frustration or dissatisfaction, without learning how the whole system may,must,can behave in a  specific room for our specific ears (psycho-acoustics).
 
The other error will be to cure one problem with a gear upgrade before trying to understand what is the problem. 
 
 
This must be meditated by  any beginners before "upgrading" and after "upgrading"...
 
 There is no relation between a piece of gear or a system/room before and after his optimal mechanical,electrical and acoustical installation. None.
 
It is the reason why reviews do not tell all the truth there is to be tell ...
 
This resume what i have learned. 
 
What have you learned yourself ?
mahgister

I own a $50,000 setup — and I’ll be the first to tell you, it’s mostly a farce.

But does it have good SINAD? I bet it doesn't

😂

@linndrum808 

That’s the irony of hifi - it’s perfectly possible to thoroughly enjoy music on the cheapest of systems.

Does that completely invalidate what audiophiles do? I guess we’re all going to take different views on that. There are no right or wrong answers to this question. 

On a similar note, my wife once posed the question to a musician friend, "Why does my husband sit trying to coax a tune out of the kids' toy guitar when he's got an expensive hand-built instrument."

Wise post. There is as much fun to optimize a low cost system as a high cost one...

We go with our budget...

 

it is more fun to learn how to do (acoustics among other things) than just plug and play... There is not slow car or fast car in audio,  any system at any price need acoustical,mechanical and electrical optimization... The price has nothing to do here ... A good sound is an optimal perceived quality you have reach by your knowledge...

 

Kind of like it's more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car fast.