Speakers and amplifiers show audiophiles are confused.

@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)

some of the most expensive systems sounded horrible

and some of the less expensive systems can sound great. That is the thing I like about this hobby, the "hacks" where you can leverage your investment. Sitting on my porch yesterday with just an $800 pair of deftech active speakers (the W7) which are basically 8 inch cubes and having them sound HUGE because of the tri-polar design offering accurate sound that’s widely dispersed, in the worst conditions, a porch surrounded by picture windows is just fun. The speaker has an intelligent design that allows it to sound much more expensive in a terrible room, even streaming spotify. That just makes my day:

@donavabdear I have been to AXPONA a few times, and I heard some expensive Focal speakers that sounded terrible the first time and very good the second time I heard them, so there are a number of factors that can cause this, not just the room or the equipment, but sometimes the people setting it up. 

@kota1 so I spoke to Dave an engineer from Bryson unfortunately they didn't have their powered systems here so we talked about powered speakers and active crossovers he fully agreed that's how high end systems should be designed. He interestedly said their system was more expensive to build and design the said the crossovers were $4k and many people thought that was to much, I got the impression that he didn't have high hopes for the future. He knew how it should go just as you and I would agree but that philosophy doesn't seem to be so popular now. I also spake to Bill who makes "Add Power" for quite a while, sorry my friend he is playing on the outskirts of science, maybe his device works but it's not for the reason he gave me, he was a very nice guy. 

I heard the SF Aida's powered by Bolder it was also over a million dollar system ($192,000 in cables alone) they of course sounded great but not as good as either of the Wilson's, (Alexa 5 or the Alex 5) or of course the Estelon's my favorite was the Wilson Alexa 5s powered by Audio Research, these speakers are less than half as much as the Aida's, I'm happy.