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WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR?

It seems like when I see comments on high end gear there is a lot of negativity. I have been an audiophile for the last 20 years. Honestly, if you know how to choose gear and match gear a lot of the high end gear is just better. When it comes to price people can charge what they want for what they create. If you don’t want it. Don’t pay for it. Look if you are blessed to afford the best bear and you can get it. It can be very sonically pleasing. Then do it. Now if you are also smart and knowledgeable you can get high end sound at mid-fi prices then do it. It’s the beauty of our our hobby. To build a system that competes with the better more expensive sounding systems out there. THOUGHTS?

calvinj
calvinj OP
2,342 posts
 

@gbmcleod @mahgister i agree fellas. A lot of people have no experience with high end equipment.  I have heard a lot. I have owned some. I have also had 1 to 2 extended in home demos that allowed me to hear and know the differences. Some see price and automatically shut down. Can’t do it that way.  

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rlross3
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same reason you have Marxist in this country, ENVY its one of those sins god talked about a lot :) 

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mahgister
13,102 posts
 

Envy results from passivity, lack of creativity, fetischism of the gear, gullibility to marketing, ignorance of basic acoustics ( no not room acoustic merely ) ...

I am so proud of my 700 bucks system and the ways i imagined to improve it that i suffer from the opposite sin : pride ...

Being here i learn about my own specific ignorance and it help curing me of this other sin ....😉

Thanks to all ...

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luisranger2bn
14 posts
 

Do you have a beef with somebody?, if is this not,why you worried,enjoy with good music no matter what do you have.

 

cheers!

bob540
407 posts
 

I don’t have anything against very high end gear that produces exquisite sounds.  I just don’t know anyone that possesses anything like that.  If a high end audio show was within a reasonable drive from me (say, in Columbus, or Cincinnati), I would probably go just for the experience of “what’s possible”.  I would love to hear a Dan D’Augustino amp or DarTZeel mono-blocks played through equally impressive loudspeakers, just to experience it.  That would be a thrill.  

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