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Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve?

Has anyone else noticed that the higher you go in sonic quality the more it cost to get an incremental increase in sonic quality. For example if you buy a 300 stereo from Walmart it sounds ok then you go a spend 3000 on one and the jump in sound quality is huge. Now to get the same percentage jump in sound quality you need to spend 9000 then 30000. So I am at the 30k+ threshold what do you have to spend to get the same incremental jump. This is more of a rhetorical question has anyone else experienced this.   

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mijostyn
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It does not work this way at all. The single biggest sonic improvement anyone can make to ANY system cost $300. This 

 

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ghdprentice
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@jjss49

K&E bamboo slide rule.

I started school before the pocket calculator… for me, the first I could afford was the Texas Instruments SR-50 calculator (I could not afford HP35 calculator). My physics labs took 12 hours of work… 11 of the hours futzing with the slide rule. When I got my SR-50… the time to complete a lab went down to one hour! Speaking of a time saver.

It was with great pleasure decades later I ended up working for Texas Instruments.

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jwei
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My expenditures were exponential because my ability to spend was exponential.  Of course I experienced diminishing returns but I could still hear the difference.

I only scaled back my purchases after I stopped hearing differences.

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