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What is wrong with Audiophiles?

Well, many issues. The pursuit after uber-expensive interconnects, speaker cables, power conditioners, power cables can be rediculous. Not to mention Audiophiles who paint the outer sides of their CD's with a green marker. A few days ago I visited a local hi-fi exhibition in Israel. Two of the most impressive rooms where the YG Acoustics with an all NAGRA amplification and the Focal room. The speaker cables in the first room cost $70,000. That was also the cost of the speaker cable in the Focal room. One could buy a BMW or a Merc AMG or a Porsche for that much money. Does this make sense to you? And, lest I forget, I have an Audiophile neighbor in the building where I live. I offered him to borrow a CD of an Israeli singer that I admire. How is the quality of the recording, he asked. "average", I answered. "No, I can't listen to average recordings", he replied. I call that "Audiophilia neurosis". 
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boxer12
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+1 Teo
BTW, I "paint" the edges of my cd's green. Costs almost nothing (I use a magic marker) & increases clarity.
david_ten
5,480 posts
 
The shortest path to peace and personal wellbeing: rephrase the title of your post to: What is wrong with me? Yes, I'm being serious. And yes, I relate and I care. 
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jayctoy
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Yuvalg9 , in this hobby you will meet different kinds of audiophile, don’t be bother by the price, anyone who can afford it they will have it, as simple as that, I agree some won’t listen with poor or average recordings that’s  their choice, I Have attended many Axpona show, to my surprise many expensive set ups did not even involved me, but they sound good though but not musical enough ,we audiophiles are fine, we just like to tweak, hopefully enjoy the music 
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stereo5
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I'm still thinking about the 70K speaker cables....Yikes!!!  Considering that a 70K BMW has thousands upon thousands of parts and the speaker cable is a wire with a Zobel network or similar imbedded in it.  I will bet the manufacturers cost is less than 3K on the cable and the rest is pure greed.  We audiophiles are such suckers.  I can hear the dealer now, "you are spending 750K for the system, whats another 70K?"  That is where most of the profit is!!!
jbrrp1
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@yuvalg9  Maybe your neighbor really had no interest in the music you were offering and used the "audiophile" reason for not trying it as a face-saving excuse?  It's possible.  Or maybe he is that far gone on the equipment side and has lost the music side.
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