Yes 30 years ago.
Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ?
Is there a minimal/optimal subjective and also objective threshold of minimal satisfaction ?
If so, many upgrade chasing may seems like a dog chasing his tail....😁
I just live through one of this upgrading event...
My system is very good, and when i tried to upgrade it , it was more a curiosity about the new amplifier than a real need...
But keep in mind that my system is 700 bucks for all components... My upgrade trying cost 1000 bucks...😁
Anyway i myself think that there is objective acoustic factors that define good sound, and when these factors are there on this threshold line , most upgrade are a change not always for the better not an improvement...
Am i alone who live throught this ? am i alone to be satisfied by under 1000 bucks system, headphone and speakers dac and amplifier included ?😁
For sure i listen alone... Many had wife and friends listening with them... This implicate costlier system able to accomodate a room , not headphone or small speakers for one in an acoustic corner for one ...
Anyway am i alone in acoustic bliss with under 1000 bucks system ?
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I was reading Walden Pond a few years ago and shocked at what a ridiculous book it was to me. I am an adventurer and outdoors enthusiast… but that was silly to me. The idea of taking all the incredible effort and investment I have put in my system and going backwards is completely anathema to me, as was the silly little book. Now Anna Karenina, that’s a book. |
@ghdprentice To each his own. A few things Thoreau had right, in my view, was that progress is often oversold, people allow themselves to be hurried by forces they might not really approve of, and simplicity is too easily tossed aside. In other words, he emphasized a profound respect for experience. That's something I agree with. But to each his own. |
I cannot say that i will abandon the quest for better sound... Then i guess i am like ghdprentice on this...😊 But lacking money i focussed in the past my attention on low cost improvements neglected generally by most... Anyway i cannot say, even if like ,as hilde45, the contemplative view of Thoreau a lot, I cannot say that i could ever downgrade by spiritual and minimalistic ethical imperative; in the opposite the way the music experience became immersive now for me ,PASSED A SPECIFIC ACOUSTIC SATISFACTION TRESHOLD made very easy for me to forgot the never ending audiophile quest for better sound.... Music is so powerful with not too much limitations in the acoustic front now, that any upgrade appear to me even if possible if not useless, not necessary at all ... But saying that i am conscious too that tempted by some revolutionary product as the BACCH filters i will purchase it right now if i could do it... It is my paradoxical attitude...No need of anything but open to some REAL upgrade... |
Very interesting suggestion... Thanks...
I would like to try it but my small speakers are self powered.... And i just discovered that active speakers will be my next move ....
I listen intensively on my headphone because they are top and very hard to beat... I listen casually on the small self powered speakers without feeling any deep lacking even in the bass ( i had no deep bass for sure)
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