What’s the Sweet Spot price point wise in your audio journey?
I ask the question because there are so much gear at vastly different price points. My sweet spot is the 15-30k range. That’s where my speakers, amp, and Dac for the most part sets. There are good things below the prices but there is synergy and price/performance when purchasing audio. For some folks it’s the 5-15 range. It just depends on what you budget is you can fund great stuff all over Audio. Thoughts! No negativity. Just real answers.
In the hi-fi world, l don’t think anyone claiming to know the sweet spot carries any weight or factual relevance. l know my sweet spots, white chocolate or buttery sugary shortcake biscuits. I know this is relevant for the fact that l can claim, l do now carry a bit more factual weight than l used to. |
Because the sweet spot is, like the diminishing returns "point", not a point, but a surface made of three interacting factors : Subjective abilities and knowledge and training,Technical evolutive progress of design, cost and price illogical distribution, there is no "point" here between these 3 interrelated set of factors... Our redemption from marketing is basic knowledge of acoustics or unlimited budget coupled to acoustics ignorance or not ... |
There seems to be some confusion regarding the meaning of "sweet spot". Here are a couple that I like:
The "sweet spot" is the optimal price-to-performance ratio where investing more money yields significantly diminishing returns. or In audiophile terms regarding budget and diminishing returns, the "sweet spot" refers to a price range where you get the maximum perceived improvement in sound quality per dollar spent, before the cost of further upgrades begins to far exceed the marginal sonic benefits. In other words, "sweet spot" does not mean the best possible sound that can be attained. It seems that most, but not all of us understand the term. |
@abnerjack “Maximum perceived….sweet spot”I Has absolutely nothing exclusively to do with sound, or dollar spent. For example…. I just made it, sitting quietly on my table in front of me now. The sweet spot of my home made latte is perfect, with just the added threat of a quarter tea spoonful of sugar.
l will not bring the three bears story into the debate for that sweet spot. |
