Let's see: 1) audiophiles over pay for equipment (often based on looks) and forget that a proper acoustic environment is probably more important to getting good sound.
IMO, that's about as true as something can be. How many audiophiles will spend thousands upgrading hardware, yet won't buy a pair of bass traps for $300, when the traps would improve the sound they hear much more than the equipment upgrade? Lots of them. 2) Cheap surround systems from places like Costco "arent' bad": Again, how is this wrong? Yes, for a few hundred to a thousand dollars you can get a pretty good sounding system that will give you about 90% of the sound quality you get from an audiophile system costing several times more. Nothing surprising here. Audiophillea is all about spending lots of money for relatively small sonic returns. It's the basic economics of diminishing returns. Each added bit of sonic improvement gets more expensive the closer you get to perfection. Audiophiles think that's worth the money, other people think it isn't, and what they have is "good enough". -- firedog GIK Acoustics Room Treatments. Tranquil PC fanless server running Vortexbox OS; SB Touch slaved to Empirical Audio Pace Car; MF X-DAC-V3, MF X-150 as pre-amp, Grant Fidelity B-283MKII buffer>ClassDaudio SDS-470 amp; Devore Gibbon Super 8 Speakers; Dual 506 + Ortofon M20 (occasional use); sometimes use PC with M-Audio 192 as digital source. SB Boom in second room. Arcam CD82 which I don't use anymore, even though it's a very good player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ firedog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93554 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
