Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid?

glupson
I started growing up listening to records on Dual 1225 turntable. By any means, not anything to brag about these days. No fancy power cord, no unidirectional interconnects, nothing of that sort. Well, the thing was magic.

>>>No unidirectional interconnects? Are you trying to reinvent audio terminology? 😛 But you’re right, nothing to brag about these days. Or any days, for that matter. No offense intended.  [Note to self: There seems to be a very large gap between the high end and those who got stuck back in the 80s and other assorted backsliders and mossbacks.]

AAhhh Geoff, up early and at it this morning?  It seems today promises to be another installment of the stratification of the true audiophiles, the Rolls set if you will, versus the rest of us, the Chevy set.  That whole discussion seems kind of 80's in and of itself.

Oh, my! Looks like I touched a nerve. 🤗

The sound you LIKE is almost certainly not the same thing as the sound you WANT. That’s because our IDEAL of what great sound should be, the one in our head, keeps changing. Nobody, well, besides Jitter and Glupson, strives to recapture the magic of their youth in the 80s or whenever. There is no glass ceiling.