From the Batmobile to highend electronics

Very good question which i cannot answer...Save for myself....


My system is low cost, all my devices are homemade....

The reward is great....

I will read with interest all opinions or experiences about that balance between additions to the system/ versus upgrades...

Personaly i stick with what i have, which is relatively good, to drive it at his working peak S.Q. without upgrades....

But if i had the money perhaps i would have been different in my approach....One thing is sure i interpret now my lack of free money for my audio dream to be a luck more than a limitation....I would have discovered nothing.... It is more easy to buy than figure out a solution....

My best to all.....

@mahgister  +1

Do not give fish
But teach how to fish.(or  learn by yourself ) 

You have not paid others , to do what you were able  to achieve.
This is great

@mahgister
´´about that balance between additions to the system/ versus upgrades... ´´

You have perfectly understood my point with this thread :-)

You have perfectly understood my point with this thread :-)

Thanks ...

I may add that if we really like our actual component then adding what is necessary, even relatively costly, made sense...

The reason is upgrading an already very good speakers for example to a better one is not easy and very costly in some case.... Then adding what is necessary for an optimal working of our actual system made sense in this context, especially for people which for example, owning a system around 10,000 bucks cannot afford one which will be really better at perhaps double or triple this price....

I really think that a point of diminishing return come very soon....I think that because i am so proud of my system cost/ S.Q. ratio that i think that improving what we have, if we love it to begins with, is less risk moneywise and more rewarding, even if, like in your case, the additions seems relatively costly...

My last argument is i know firsthand that a really well embedded system has no comparison at all between before and after the embeddings controls...What here we call the "additions"... It is the reason why i dont want to call them tweaks...Tweaks are only secondary addition, embeddings controls are fundamental additions...

Then the route of many additions is more rewarding than investing a big amount of money to beat and improve substantially what we already own and love ....Improving it at the least cost is the way...

I will choose the batmobile then ..... 😊

I prefer to build my own "hot rod" than to buy a formula one anyway...

And my goal was never improving my system till i die, but reaching a point where music is all that matter, the sound being no more an impediment....I am there now with a 500 bucks system.... But i cannot speak for others nor advise them, save for the importance to control the mechanical, electrical and especially the acoustical dimensions if they dont want to chase their tails or chase the moon....

My best to you....




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