Bad news for audiophiles?

No snark intended. Funds that would yield better results on other components end up going into expensive cables to compensate weaknesses in the system.

noromance, 

A much improved statement and true to a point, IME. Thanks for the clarification.

Dave

noromance
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10-14-2016 11:22am
No snark intended. Funds that would yield better results on other components end up going into expensive cables to compensate weaknesses in the system.


Uh, pretty sure you’re supposed to spend the excess funds on tweaks, not other component or cables.

Funds that would yield better results on other components end up going into expensive cables to compensate weaknesses in the system.

Gotta agree with noromance, unless one has no budget and then one can have better components, expensive cables and also drink better tasting $90 wine.  

BTW Geoff, would you say the propensity to enjoy wine costing $90 over the same wine costing $10 is more closely related to expectation bias or placebo effect?  If the wine is served by a sommelier, then I vote placebo effect since the two wines would have no attributes that would cause the drinker to find one better than the other, except for their belief that more expensive wine must taste better.  OTOH, if the taster themselves chose the $90 wine based on their own research this would result in an expectation bias where the researcher believes their tasting supports their research.

Thanks for this discussion that reminds me the only path between two points is not a straight line....and not to buy expensive cables.

I've always liked this quote:

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."