From the Batmobile to highend electronics

@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....




«Audio journey is like a submarine, you dont know when you will surface»- Anonymus Smith

@millercarbon Politeness is free and appreciated try harder next time please.

If you know your house wiring is questionable, and you can ascertain background noise in your system when no signal is being put through it, a good power isolator is a perfectly logical investment.  I have a medical-grade power isolator for my gear.  The box is a foot square and weighs 35 pounds, because there is real pig iron in that sucker.  It didn't cost 5 figures like what it appears you spent on all that Nordost kit, but hey, if that works for you, then cool.  I spent $600 on that thing, and it was a worthy purchase. 

In my experience, there are "auxiliary" (I use that word for lack of a better one) items that can improve your experience.  But I'm definitely in the "diminishing returns" camp.  I participated, years ago, in a double-blind A/B test between basic 16-gauge lamp cord and $1500/m audiophile-grade speaker wire to the same set of speakers.  I was able to correctly identify which one was in use 65% (13/20) of the time, so there was a difference.  But the difference wasn't all that dramatic, even before ear fatigue from listening to the same music selection over and over again set in.  No one who took the test that day hit 100%, except one guy who nailed his first attempt and stopped the test after that. 

I'm sure some feathers will be ruffled by this opinion, but hey, we all take our own paths through the audiophile maze, I'm not judgy about people who spend top dollar for every aspect of their system.  If it makes you happy, do it.  

The upside is, all those auxiliary items won't need to be replaced should you decide to swap out a component in the future.  So you can kind of mark them down as "done".  Right? 

@millercarbon
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