Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed?

@geoffkait 

"There are two high ends for audio. One is in the solid grip of upgraditis, that one tends to be solidly Anti Tweak, believing that the secret to sound quality is the electronic circuit, expensive parts and “solid engineering” - in quotes. The other high end is more of a tweak-oriented group, focused on improving the sound through cleverness and thoughtfulness. THIS high end operates by assessing the weaknesses in the audio system and coming up with solutions. You know, the group that doesn’t read reviews any more. The ones who don’t buy Stereophile or The Absolute Sound anymore."

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@ivan_nosnibor 

While I'll agree that @geoffkait post is more accurate and thought out than many of his other posts, to some extent it is not entirely correct because there is yet a third (that I can think of, perhaps there are more) high-ends for audio.

The third condition combines elements of both high-ends as indicated in his description.

Ricred1. My opinion is Jeff’s change has nothing to do with “sound quality” and is rather the same old, same old of everyone who enjoys writing, critiquing, expounding — ie attracting more audience <•> <•> — or advertisers € £ ¥. Again there’s little New in these rather pedestrian callings. But I’m here watching too - a little porny ?? Ahem. Sorry. Corny - that’s the word I’m looking for ;)

The thing what I hope people will learn and understand is that trial en error does not garantee you anything. Regardless price, even highend products and brands do not garantee you anything either.

Shows and many shops proof that they do not understand sound and music. So you need to start where it begins. And that is music. From this you need to learn to use audio from a different perspective.

When people all keep on focusing on products and brands they will limit themselves until the end. You need a mindset to understand that there is a much better way of creating an audiosystem what will be more complete and more sounding as in real.

The emotion of music needs to be revealed by your system at home. Systems created by trial and error proof on facts that they are incomplete. It is a 100% illusion to believe that an audio system created by trial and error is a personal thing. And that this will create the best results for you.

In over 8 years we proved that each system what went from 2D to 3D make a huge difference in how often a person uses his system. Because we read a lot about how our emotion works. And especially regarding music.

Another big step we made was focusing on diversity in sound. And this also makes a huge difference in how music is being experienced.

At the end emotion is what music is. So this is what your systems need to be able to create and reveal. When you compare and test many products as we did, the facts proof that many products will never be able to create all the properties of sound.

The main reason for this is that the people who create them have less insight and knowledge about music either. In can garantee you all overhere at Audiogon that at the end it has nothing to do with money. More money does not garantee you a better result at all. But....using the right properties will.

Because you can create even systems for reasonable prices which many of you overhere can afford. When you create products on properties it is a lot more easy to create a much higher level for the same kind of money by trial and error.

The other thing what is needed are DSP roomacoustsic systems for all people. They will make a big difference and will bring the quality in both sound and realism to a much higher level.

The acoustics of rooms limit the endresults a lot. When I see and hear how limited the insight and knowledge is in this part it proofs that most people still think it is 1980.