New speakers or new car?


ever notice it’s easier to spend $50,000 on speakers than $50,000 on a new car? Why is that. Is it because my living room is not big enough for a car?

Seriously, I need a new car. So maybe I need to come to terms with that and somehow find a way for it to be easier to spend a lot of money on a new car. Maybe it’s because a speaker doesn’t come with annual recurring costs like insurance and all the gasoline or electricity you gotta put into it.

Or maybe I just do both.

emergingsoul

@emergingsoul

When my daughter was in town and looked at my rig, she said, you need to leave me instructions on what to do with all this stuff after you’re not here. 
 

At this point, while I don’t have $50,000 speakers. I have more in my system than in my car. My system goes on every day while I use my car three or four days a month. 

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

W. C. Fields

It's easier to design and engineer an expensive loudspeaker that sounds great than an inexpensive one that provides a high percentage of the expensive speaker's attributes.  Somewhere in that continuum lies real value, bang for the buck, but always in the eyes (and ears) of the beholder. It's a tricky proposition to find that point, but it's there.

I struggle with speakers when I have to buy them. Takes years. (Currently content with what I have, but you never know when the bug will bite.)

Cars? A couple days.