opaqueice;176257 Wrote: > No offense intended, but I couldn't disagree with you more. A huge > proportion of "high-end" audio products are total garbage, at least > from a price/performance point of view. It's true a $15,000 wire will > conduct electricity, but so will a 10 cent wire, and so by any > reasonable standard the $15,000 version should get a very, very bad > review. Instead the reviewers spout nonsense about speed, timing, > extension, etc., when in truth they'd be incapable of picking the thing > out in a blind test. It's pretty despicable, really.
If it is better, even marginally, then there is a cost/benefit analysis that may differ depending on your circumstances. If I am Bill Gates, I may see that $15k as so small that I may as well, but if I am living on slightly humbler means, I may instead choose to feed my children. I think almost all decent audio equipment sounds pretty good. Some I prefer to others, some I think are great bargains, others I don't understand what people see in them (I am glad Mr Floding prefers his old Krell, for example!). I have heard systems priced above £100k that sound (to my ears) much worse than mine. Others liked them. However, I know no-one who actually spends that much on audio - I'd need a load of dough to justify that sort of audio spend, given what else could be done with that cash! And I do agree that a reviewer should be able to pick out such differently-priced products in a blind test. Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31860
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