Speakers and amplifiers show audiophiles are confused.
An audiophile buys a pair of speakers for $50K or $100K then asks what amps make them sound best. That’s about as smart as marrying a girl without knowing her personality. What are the specs that will insure your expensive new speakers and amps will work optimality with each other? There’s got to be an app for that, well no there isn’t because there are too many variables and companies don’t present their specs in a standard ways. Why is it that speaker and amplifier manufactures don’t recommend specific amps for their speakers? Beyond power, impedance, and making your own crossovers how do you choose amplifiers to get all the potential out of your speakers?
Screw what "everyone" says, the experience will give you a bar, not perfection. You also will have the ability to tap into knowledge of other people at the show, the vendors, and the dealers. Not everyone will have a bad room, not to worry. You will also find word of mouth spreads quickly to what rooms are "must see". Take a look at this review of last years show: https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/my-best-of-axpona-demonstration-list/ |
donavabdear, this is the second thread I've noticed where you tell audiophiles how confused they are. I don't question your experience in professional circles, but this is a hobby. Audiophiles do audio for pleasure. The proper way to do the hobby is the way which provides the greatest pleasure to the individual audiophile. Just because many of us do not do audio your way does not mean we are confused or that we are doing it wrong. Lighten up, man. Let us have our fun as we choose. |
@kingharold Ya know I think you're right, I do need to lighten up. I really got the wrong ideas about audiophiles I now think it's not about the search for the bet sound it simply a hobby like you said, there are so many obviously silly things audiophiles do but I'm now realizing that's ok. Today I asked a super duper expensive cable company how their cables make a difference when the power gets to the house then out of the wall socket via a small connection with an Edison plug then connected to an amp then to a fuse then PC tracers or internal cables that aren't near as good as the cable you're selling? He said I have no idea I'm an engineer (for the company) doesn't seem possible to me. We laughed and I said thanks for the honesty. I guess that was an audiophile moment. Thanks for being kind @kingharold |
@kingharold Also here at AXPONA it is clear there is a world of BS that the marketeers feed to the people, some of the most expensive systems sounded horrible and it wasn't the rooms they were huge and sounded fine. There were million dollar systems that were so bad I wondered if they were a joke, really. One smaller system obviously had something wrong with it at about 2k it was probably 18db to hot clearly a problem. I mentioned it to one of the people who worked there and he said he knew but that's how the boss wanted it, so strange. There are companies taking advantage of audiophiles but I'm not going to gripe about it anymore because I'm turning over a new leaf. (I hope) |
