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Have fun! Life is too short for bad coffee or bad sound.
Amen to that!!!
What Does 80 Grand Get You Nowadays?
A system was playing in a shop. I sat down and pretty soon I thought gosh, I’m glad my system sounds better than this.
That system - just preamp, amp, and speakers - cost about $80,000 new.
I didn’t make the speakers at first, because Sabrinas look far better than the usual Wilson house look. They were driven by one of those new high-end Marantz amps, and I don’t think that was a match made in heaven. The Marantz was driven by a Dan D’Agostino pre that looked like a Minion had been crushed in a hydraulic press. Audiophile music was streaming, but I did not catch whence issued those dulcet ones and zeroes.
I suppose that system constitutes high-end for some. Now, it certainly sounded competent, but it also sounded boring. I thought, this is the Audi SUV of audio: competent and boring.
Conversely, I was impressed and pleased to no end that the end sound of my modest system from the last century could play in the same league as an almost-six figure modern system, and do so in a more engaging and fun fashion - to my ears, at least.
I’m biased, of course; and I am certain many high-priced systems out there leave mine in the dust. Still, I would have thought $80,000 guaranteed a better baseline sound.
How about you, have you heard a lot of gear whose sound was way out of whack with its price?
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I hang out with some artists whose pockets ain’t so deep. Ya tell em about some affordable stuff that’s good instead, demonstrate it to them and they say ’holy sht’ and buy it. You say the same thing to the audiophiles around here...and it is "beneath" them...even the ones with shallow pockets (something’s wrong with the brand name, not uppity enough, yada yada). 95% of them couldn’t tell the difference between a 300k rig and a 10k rig if a blindfold went on. It’s never about the sound with these guys really...has to be some guy tinkering in his garage, claiming some miracle to make some audiophile feel elusive and uppity. That's the gist of it.
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that marble everything will just make it sound superb @lanx0003 |
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