New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones)

@grislybutter

Not sure why you should be disillusioned by what others are saying. IT's your choice - you should do what you feel like.

if you love music, you won’t be obsessed with gear, because music is perfectly and fully enjoyable with decent $200 desktop speakers, playing from youtube.

I spend quite some time with family watching movies or listening to the wife and kid's songs. We do that on the Pioneer bookshelf speakers that are a lot less $s than what you mention. And it is fun - I agree. But to get the "full on" experience, I go to my main system. With this system I can listen to new (to me, not others) music from artists and genres I have not heard before. It is an amazing experience. In fact Spotify wrapped 2022 tells me that this year I listened to 59 different genres and 1928 different artists, and this is NOT counting the first 3 months of the year that I was with Tidal.And also my collection of silver discs.

With a metaphor, imagine that you love playing soccer but your main focus is not playing but finding the best shoes.

I don't know about soccer. So I can probably relate to running shoes. Flip-flops are bad for running. But with a well designed shoe from Books compared to a cheaper one, you can go on for miles without straining your muscles and hurting the knees. Specialization helps and I have experienced it. So if you are into driving, are you saying that a Mitsubishi Mirage will provide you the same pleasure as a BMW M3 or Porsche GT3? That would be hard to believe.

@thyname ,

Man, that sucks.

But to the common person, "it" (that is how they refer to audio systems) should make "loud music". That's all they care for. Such folks need to be educated. My colleagues told me that they had heard "about high end" audio, but never imagined what it could do.

Unless folks like us put some effort into educating the "not-in-the-know" folks, they will never know to differentiate sound/noise from music.

People that don’t know don’t care IMO and IME. 
 

jBL or pick your poison Bluetooth sounds totally fine. Most people don’t need anything more and certainly would not put tens of thousands to hear better. 

People that don’t know don’t care IMO and IME. 

And my story does not support this. If they have not heard anything better, then yes, they would not know. This is the second time. Last time was in 2019, when a friend came over for a listen and was amazed what high end sounds like. We ended up getting a Revel F35/36 at the local dealer and a Hegel integrated (with onboard DAC) and Audio Envy cables. And this was right before the pandemic! I have posted about this story too, here on Audiogon. Yes. it is rare, but it does happen.

@grislybutter 

When I see that people have a list of components that cost more than I spent on cars, combined in my entire adult life and the same people rave about junk music (to my taste) I feel confused.

Yes this has been puzzling me for years too.

Folks with mega expensive systems who seem to prefer listening to emotionless garbage.

Always well recorded emotionless garbage, mind you.