Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money?

In a double-blind A/B test at normal listening levels most people would have a hard time distinguishing between LS50s and speakers that cost 100x as much.

This comment combination hash drink and lack experience. That speaker ok for canoe system but what you have company stock and want speaker upgrade? Merry Christmas to all good audiophile hope Santa good you.

@dill every one of them have done so by choice. That's the great thing about capitalism! If you are on this forum you have bought various pieces of equipment. You and you alone made the decision to buy what you did. It profited a lot of people if you consider everyone involved from conception to manufacture to sales and final delivery. Mutually beneficial, nothing forced. The more of this the better and the more and better options we will have and do have. How many models of Russian cars can you name? If some would have their way we would all be listening to Department of Entertainment for the Masses Bose Speaker Mfg. and watching our Curtis Mathes video interface.

Hey, I have no problem at all with Ted and his business, in fact I have owned some of his products. Please notice the smiley face, wink emoji. Sorry if my humor is not appreciated by all, it is not a new experience for me.

      With ALL due respect:

     The cult of the Naysayer Doctrine, wants you to accept their revelations, by faith (ie: YOUR senses and mental faculties are worthless and deceitful).  

      You MUST follow their precepts, or- be eternally DAMNED to partake of their (seemingly) inexhaustible fountain of ubiquitous, misinformed/uneducated, faith-based (on 1800s Electrical Theory, if that), hubris-salted, BLATHER. 

     Salvation preaching, no doubt, to their fanatically fevered and flustered, mental faculties

    Then too: there often seems an agenda, through antagonistic barking, to eventually get a thread removed.   

                                 iow: AudiogoN's version of cancel culture.

                                                  Happy listening!

@kahlenz 

"In a double-blind A/B test at normal listening levels most people would have a hard time distinguishing between LS50s and speakers that cost 100x as much.  They would, however, immediately be able to tell the difference between the LS50s and  laptop computer speakers."

Agreed. 

Although I suspect you wouldn't even need a pair of LS50s for your words to be true. Friends and family reactions have demonstrated this apparent anomaly over time after time.

However, we are not most people. We crave improvements wherever and whenever, irregardless. This is particularly problematic when there is no metric accurate enough by which can compare precise performance.

This is not F1 where they have 400 sensors on board the cars and precision timing mechanisms.

@dadork 

If you are on this forum you have bought various pieces of equipment. You and you alone made the decision to buy what you did.

Quite rightly so.

Despite the neverending exhortations of reviewers suggesting a neverending stream of improved versions (flavours of the month) there is no audio mandate.

The choice remains with the individual. The consumer is free to visit forums such as this and make up their own mind.

The key word is free.