Ever notice how some say they don't have a dog in this fight and end up on a soapbox tugging at the leash before they finish?
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Nonoise
Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money?
It's really tiring. Audiophools, Snake Oil, why buy this/that. I don't give a rip what others do, although I like to read about it but none of my business. I'm just not geared that way. People want to buy a Lambo, 10,000 buck cables, 100,000 buck loudspeakers, it's no skin off my nose yet some people are obsessed with what others do. I don't get it.
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It’s not so much that they care, it is more likely that they think its obsurd....and I’d have to agree that in most cases it is.....there does exist a law of diminishing returns. To pay thousands and thousands more to get a lousy 1 to 3 percent increase in "better" (subjective) sound is Lunacy....a lot of it is based on huge over inflated Egos, and trying to "keep up with the Joneses", rather than the pursuit of a qualitative increase in sound. JMO, don't kill me. |
Well I appreciate your 2 cents worth, 4.98 more I could have got a cup of coffee and 2.00 dollars MORE after that would have gotten me a 50 cent donut, with way to much icing on it. :-) Same difference isn't it? 7.00 dollars for coffee and a donut that cost a dollar, maybe and that dollar would net someone a 100% mark up. I forgot the 3.00 dollar tip.. 10.00 dollars for a donut and a cup of mudd. It would almost buy 2 gallons of fuel. Only in America, ain't it wonderful. Become a billionaire over selling coffee and donuts. If I could sell BS the way some do, I'd be a trillionaire. BTW We are gonna stop the virus, not the economy. Sure you are, ME TOO. Where is that orange guy. The real problem with BOTH. Neither has a DOG, something is wrong with that. What presedents didn't have dogs. One had an alligator! Merry Christmas |
In a double-blind A/B test at normal listening levels most people would have a hard time distinguishing between LS50s and speakers that cost 100x as much. They would, however, immediately be able to tell the difference between the LS50s and laptop computer speakers. |
Ted has a business. Manufacturing stuff. Employs people. In exchange for salary. It’s called “business”. Capitalism 101. Deal with it. Or migrate to North Korea. The success of a business, or lack thereof, depends on whether people buy the stuff. Again, capitalism 101. If you don’t like it, migrate to North Korea. See how that works out. |
This comment combination hash drink and lack experience. That speaker ok for canoe system but what you have company stock and want speaker upgrade? Merry Christmas to all good audiophile hope Santa good you.
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@dill every one of them have done so by choice. That's the great thing about capitalism! If you are on this forum you have bought various pieces of equipment. You and you alone made the decision to buy what you did. It profited a lot of people if you consider everyone involved from conception to manufacture to sales and final delivery. Mutually beneficial, nothing forced. The more of this the better and the more and better options we will have and do have. How many models of Russian cars can you name? If some would have their way we would all be listening to Department of Entertainment for the Masses Bose Speaker Mfg. and watching our Curtis Mathes video interface. |
With ALL due respect: The cult of the Naysayer Doctrine, wants you to accept their revelations, by faith (ie: YOUR senses and mental faculties are worthless and deceitful). You MUST follow their precepts, or- be eternally DAMNED to partake of their (seemingly) inexhaustible fountain of ubiquitous, misinformed/uneducated, faith-based (on 1800s Electrical Theory, if that), hubris-salted, BLATHER. Salvation preaching, no doubt, to their fanatically fevered and flustered, mental faculties Then too: there often seems an agenda, through antagonistic barking, to eventually get a thread removed. iow: AudiogoN's version of cancel culture. Happy listening! |
"In a double-blind A/B test at normal listening levels most people would have a hard time distinguishing between LS50s and speakers that cost 100x as much. They would, however, immediately be able to tell the difference between the LS50s and laptop computer speakers."
Agreed. Although I suspect you wouldn't even need a pair of LS50s for your words to be true. Friends and family reactions have demonstrated this apparent anomaly over time after time. However, we are not most people. We crave improvements wherever and whenever, irregardless. This is particularly problematic when there is no metric accurate enough by which can compare precise performance. This is not F1 where they have 400 sensors on board the cars and precision timing mechanisms.
If you are on this forum you have bought various pieces of equipment. You and you alone made the decision to buy what you did.
Quite rightly so. Despite the neverending exhortations of reviewers suggesting a neverending stream of improved versions (flavours of the month) there is no audio mandate. The choice remains with the individual. The consumer is free to visit forums such as this and make up their own mind. The key word is free.
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