Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade?


If not why are many hardly using the systems they assembled, why are so many upgrading fairly new gear that’s fully working? Seems to me many are designed to impress reviewers, show-goers, short-term listeners, and on the sales floor but once in a home system, in the long run, they fatigue users fail to engage and make you feel something is missing so back you go with piles of cash.

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@mihorn most people (non-audiophiles) ears are almost in natural sound mode.

Interesting observation. maybe that is why people think audiophiles are nuts. They’ve never entered the world of "unnatural sounds".

I believe so. My ears hurt always listening to other audio systems. I can switch my ears between natural and unnatural sound modes, but switching back to the natural sound mode is very fatiguing and gives me a bad feeling to my brain and whole body.

Right speaker is converted to a natural sound spkr by me

I can hear the improvement.How do you do this?

The Wavetouch sound guide on a speaker is the key. Alex/Wavetouch

If there is one best choice for each of us:

then the more choices there are

the more wrong choices we have to sort through.