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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scottwheel

Clearly you are not familiar with foobar 2000 amount other programs

Logical fallacy, ad hominem:

Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

Those of us that can’t afford the REAL high end gear want to soothe our regret by saying the products are overpriced and cater to snobs.  Those that can afford the very expensive gear lament that others that cannot afford it do not know what they are talking about and are just jealous.  

The best audio in the world need the best room in the world ... Nobody can afford it ...

Forget it ...

In the same way you forgot the top F1 car which need a designed road for his performance when you drive any normal usual very good car ...

 

Be creative and redesign or optimize your Toyota or your Ford...

Audio is about being creative and about acoustic learnings and learning design ... It is not and never had been about the best in the world ... ( Save for the like of Bill Gates or Bezos)

I am so proud of my low cost system optimized and modified , so good it is , with his not to heavy limitations , that i almost pity those who spend 50 times the amount of money i put in it for a better experience for sure than mine but not so much far in advance that what they think anyway, and thats is my point ...

When you reach the minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold , defined as some balance ratio of quality between all the acoustics factors involved; you are happy with the music , you listen without stop and knowing that some way better system/room exist dont impede your ectasy at all ... There is a minimal threshold ...Learn how to reach it ...

 

Creativity and music exclude hate ...

Ectasy exclude envy ...

But the bad news : creativity dont always  exclude pride ...

I am very proud of my peanuts costing system/room  ... I apologize for that and for my  long and highly vocal posts...

😁😊😉

 

 

Those of us that can’t afford the REAL high end gear want to soothe our regret by saying the products are overpriced and cater to snobs. Those that can afford the very expensive gear lament that others that cannot afford it do not know what they are talking about and are just jealous.