I'm frustrated with people who don't ...


Sorry for a long post...
Recently I was at a 3-day meeting out of town for work. For an evening activity we had a cook out at a colleague's house. While there, we gathered around his deck and a small fire in the back yard. I found myself in a group of 6 guys discussing hobbies. I mentioned my love for audio and began to describe my system and music library. Almost instantly, I was "pounced" for believing that any "hi end" component is worth the money compared to anything else one can buy from Best Buy. "Digital is digital" one guy stated, "an $89 player is as good as anything else out there". I attempted to defend my position but in no way was I able to convince anyone. I told them the next time they're in town, I'd have them over to my place and let them hear the difference, but I know most will not acknowledge the quality of sound. Footnote: I've known these guys for 3-5 years and they are professional level headed guys, I wasn't bragging, I made no grand statements that my system is better than anything else, I just talked about my interest and brought it up when they asked me. The icing on the cake was their disbelief that my system can only play one CD at a time... "you don't have a carousel on your CDP?" Man, I was frustrated.
mijknarf
Lugnut, You got it wrong, its Nikon v Canon, and Canon sucks! And I like jug wine, that stuff with corks in the bottles is a huge waste of money. :-)
One of the problems with our hobby is that quality is so tough to measure. It's easier to talk about the time to get from 0-60 mph or how many pixels your digital camera has. Lugnut is right that there are other hobbies like this (you spent how much on that reel?). It is frustrating and I normally respond that I enjoy it and love music. Generally, folks don't begin to get it until they really listen to a good system. Even then, if it's not a priority for them, they'll think I'm nuts. That's OK. I welcome the diversion from focusing on the real reasons for my insanity ;-)
So . . . Mijknarf, are you ready to admit that LP's sound better than CD's? (LOL)
--Neil
Well, Don't be...
It's realy easy to find a good CD-player among above 1k ones but very hard to find in low-hundreds range and even among carousels. Some of cheap Best Buy ones will sound like crap but some of them do deserve attention...
Hey everyone has their "thing". I have a friend who wears 3K watches, I have a friend who buys bottles of wine that cost in the hundreds, others are into automobiles.

Me I drive an Acura TL and love it, I wear an 80 dollar watch {and a 20.00 Movado knock off} and a 12.00 bottle of vino is just fine with me.

Thats how I explain my hobby to friends , and in that context, they seem to get it. Dont knock yourself out.
Enjoy the music.