You've hit the nail on the head here, Ecke.
I'd dare to add on more consideration. Uber expensive gear of any
kind serves at least one great service. It liberates surplus funds
from people with more than they know what to do with, and
redistributes it to others more needy. In this case the manufacturers
of said high-end gear.
;-)
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
2009/11/15 eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/15 J.C. O'Connell <hifis...@gate.net>:
>> ownership has nothing to do with this. I don't own a $100K turntable,
>> but that doesn't mean they don't exist or my or your turntables are just
>> as good as the $100K turntables. You can have opinions based on
>> experinences and auditions, ownerships isnt a requirement. In this
>> case Im just arguing your opinion that your $1K turntable is as
>> good as the the $10k and $100K models or that at $1000 you are
>> record quality limited, is wrong. That level ( fully record limited) of
>> playback performance is not possible for only $1K. It costs much more
>> than that to get the job done as well as possible.
>
> yeah sure and big bucks can sound better than small bucks if the big
> buck stuff was built by people knowing their stuff but what on earth
> has this to do any more with the passion that Tom described or the
> happiness that I felt when my vintage tech windfall brought back
> something that I cherish very much now...
>
> and forget ownership... auditioning a 100K system certainly gives you
> an opinion that you have no access to without it but quite frankly I
> don't care - such systems are obscene as long as there are people
> starving within a half day's flying distance of any given point on the
> planet...
>
> BUT
>
> good enough is when the sound makes me want to close my eyes and just
> listen... back to joseph's captivating here... and I dare to question
> that one can still let oneself be captivated if there is always a
> feeling nagging that "this could sound better if only I had ..." this
> is why good enough is so important because it places you at peace with
> your reality...
>
> so I question the necessity... take it with however many grains of
> salt you wish... the only point I find to justify such excess is that
> it helps to better appreciate the passion others put into creating the
> recordings... there is no inherent good in expenisve hifi gear; it is
> only as good as the music played on it...
>
> anyhoo please enjoy your thread, maybe it just isn't mine to follow
> but rather to respectfully ignore
>
> Cheers
> Ecke
>
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