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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
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nonoise
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scottwheel

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“@scottwheel no one is piling on you. You just want to push how you feel on those who will not agree with you.  Agree to disagree and move on.”

where did I say anyone was piling on me? What happens if I don’t agree to disagree? 😎 but please don’t try to tell me what *I* want. It’s obnoxious. You want to challenge the merits of my position great. Do so using facts and logic. But ascribing fake motives to me is a bit of a dick move. 

So this is the one you can't find. Tells us a lot about you.

All the best,
Nonoise

calvinj OP
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@nonoise when start talking like @scottwheel does now.  I’m done. The language the overly aggressive commenting when it is unnecessary completely loses me. Someone trying to force their opinion on you so bad that they don’t see how disrespectful they are being to other forum participants. The sad part is that he doesn’t even see it. Most people on this thread have been doing audio 15, 20, 30 years and all of the sudden he has all the answers to all the audio riddles? GOH! 

deep_333
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Asking for a double blind test as only proof for any subjective testimony given in good faith in a hobby site about anyone using something in his audio system /room is asking too much from a too high chair ...

@mahgister , it doesn’t have to be the only proof....but, why wouldn’t a golden ear bat have the courage to pass a blind comparison on a subjective tesimony he provided? For example, i have passed cable comparisons 18/20 to 20/20 times on my rig (highly statistically significant). It helped zip the yapper of a ASR educated moron who lives in my town. He’s a very reformed cat now. Lol

Put your money where your mouth is boys (When the going gets tough, the tough get going!).

 

 

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scottwheel
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“By the way scottwheel it would have been way more useful to explain why the BACCH filters you already own are an acoustic revolution instead of pushing people in their corner with the urgent use of double blind test as the only way to validate an experience they already claim as their own meaningful experience , nevermind if they are right or wrong ... ...Respect must be “

 

I thought I did explain the BACCH SP. As for validating other peoples’ experiences that comes down to two things. What is the likelihood of one’s observation to be the result of the actual sound? How committed are you to having personal experiences accepted as objective reality? If some one tells me they went to the grocery store and bought groceries I’m not going to question it. If someone says they can make themselves invisible I’m asking for evidence. If the response is “How dare you ask for evidence! Who are you to question my abilities?!” I don’t demand anyone do any do anything. I just make it clear that if someone expects me to believe something that I am skeptical of I want something more reliable than anecdotal evidence. Apparently that’s outrageous. 

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