The Law of Accelerating Returns

There are no experts only opinions.

They are like what?

Cheap is cheap though.

Very few people can beat my sound quality/price RATIO... 500 bucks for the system and peanuts cost for the room..

But no one take almost 2 years to tune his room ( 100 resonators and diffusers) many months all the day listening...It is also a PRICE to pay...

And i dont have an opinion, only experience and experiments with acoustic huge power for improvement WITH A CHOSEN SYSTEM...It is science easy to verify that acoustic matter the most not an opinion taken from a hat...

But acoustic dont perform miracles and never transformed my very good Sansui in a Berning superior ZOTL... Only Christ make bread with stones...

But i dont give a damn about the superior ZOTL now, my Sansui i can live with it easily...There exist a minimal TRESHOLD of sound quality with which anybody can live without being frustrated...It is WHY acoustic can teach us something no upgrade will never teach us...

Helmholtz founded modern acoustic thinking listening to his resonators and he founded modern psycho-acoustic thinking about the way the ears/brain can take notice of the frequencies differentials ...

And yes cheap is too more money for me , cheaper is better ...

Anyway acoustic dont give a damn to the price cost of materials, only about their location, dimensions and ratios and acoustic content...I even used empty toilet paper rolls by the way... 😁😊

Who will dare to laugh? i will laugh the last...

Sorry to put the point over the right letter...

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Acoustic optimization is the law ...

By the way the fact that a piece of gear upgrade could GIVE more resolving sound frequency-wise is not a proof that the sound will be IMPROVED at the end ... In acoustic frequencies resolution is one aspect, phase count also and timing, and ratios and balance between reflections/absorptions/diffusions... And the pressures zones distribution in the room, and more than that the way each one speaker will adress differently each one ear matter MORE than the difference in resolving power between a SANSUI amplifier and a BERNING ZOTL amplifier... Then acoustic rule over most upgrade choices, if what you already own is already very good...

This is not my opinion, this is experience and science...Sound come from the speakers/room not directly from the amplifier or from a dac...The dac-amplifier gear convey the information with variable success yes but they cannot translate the information in sound , the speakers/room/ ears/brain system do it....Then acoustic/psycho-acoustic explain it to us...

Don't worry Jerry I hear Ukraine is going into the scrape Iron business and will become the new world leader in scrap Russian iron for building a BETTER Ukraine.  After they refine the crappy alloys used enough, they could use them for new toilets and sewage line infrastructure. You know, "here's thinking of you" FLUSH!  

Underwood HiFi has terrific products priced well below the big name brands. Priced for the blue collar who loves excellent playback.

Their Voyager 350 GaN amp is amazing, as is their Core Power products. I also have their Emerald Physics 3.4s, which are out of production (sadly), but blew away my Magnepan 3.5Rs

I Can't quite determine if OCD is a pre-requisite to becoming an Audiophile or is an affliction brought on by being one.

Not that I don't believe in matching components and speakers to work together; not that I don't believe in proper set up of room and components, but sometimes, even when we think we have everything sounding really good, we can't just enjoy the music - we have to fix it till it's broke and then start over, or at least find the next new fix. Usually the more expensive the fix, the better we feel, at least for a while. 

Although reviews and articles on audio gear are sometimes interesting and informative, as far as the AS article, as well as other professional articles and reviews, it's important to consider that their primary objective is to push and promote expensive audio gear - that's what pays the bills.......Jim