The price of high end equipment has become
absurd.
I used to be in the game until cables cost more
than a modest house.
Ditto for Audio Note's CDT-5 transport with Fifth Element DAC at $250,000.
People buy this gear because they can.
Money is meaningless to these folks.
It's like purchasing a $1.2million Audemars Piguet.
They usually no nothing about high end audio.
Their attitude is
"If it costs the most then it must be the best."
Equipment that costs one tenth can sound markedly better, but it's not prestigious.
These folks won't even listen to it.
"What, it's not from the Golmund salon?"
I wish that I had that kind of money but I do have a Cello Palette, Sequerra FM-1, Apogee Full Range speakers, etc. and I'm quite happy.
Crazy money in 1970's-1990's, but obtainable.
Now it has become crazy unattainable except by the super rich.
Same for cars, watches, jets, yachts, 50,000sq
ft homes, jewelry.
The average Bugatti owner has 8 homes, 40 automobiles, a private jet and helicopter.
Now audio joins that group.
What about a surround sound with the new Wilson Wamm's (I owned the originals that I got preowned) and Golmund, FM Acoustics, Audio Note, Nordost Odin stuff.
Enjoy what you have and spend money on LPs
CDs, etc.
Now where's that super rich person's checkbook?
absurd.
I used to be in the game until cables cost more
than a modest house.
Ditto for Audio Note's CDT-5 transport with Fifth Element DAC at $250,000.
People buy this gear because they can.
Money is meaningless to these folks.
It's like purchasing a $1.2million Audemars Piguet.
They usually no nothing about high end audio.
Their attitude is
"If it costs the most then it must be the best."
Equipment that costs one tenth can sound markedly better, but it's not prestigious.
These folks won't even listen to it.
"What, it's not from the Golmund salon?"
I wish that I had that kind of money but I do have a Cello Palette, Sequerra FM-1, Apogee Full Range speakers, etc. and I'm quite happy.
Crazy money in 1970's-1990's, but obtainable.
Now it has become crazy unattainable except by the super rich.
Same for cars, watches, jets, yachts, 50,000sq
ft homes, jewelry.
The average Bugatti owner has 8 homes, 40 automobiles, a private jet and helicopter.
Now audio joins that group.
What about a surround sound with the new Wilson Wamm's (I owned the originals that I got preowned) and Golmund, FM Acoustics, Audio Note, Nordost Odin stuff.
Enjoy what you have and spend money on LPs
CDs, etc.
Now where's that super rich person's checkbook?