Why Don't More People Love Audio?

Madona sounds really good on my $90 high quality table radio fed from my computer at work. In mono of course. :^}

Tbg, my system comes in arounfd $10K or so in terms of what I actually paid, a lot more at list price. It does it pretty good! I've been to many concerts and symphonies and pay close attention to what I hear. I can think of many other combos that could do it as well. Its a silly question to ask really in that its all a matter of opinion, even when its yours. Although I can say that on paper my setup has the specs to pull it off at least. Plus all my tweaks are cost effective and practical.

I hope this thread does not become yet another good example of why more people don't love audio.......

Mapman, be happy and enjoy. And you certainly are doing your best to fulfill public indifference to audio.

Tbg,

I appreciate that.

Everyone has to start someone and fulfill their own needs.

We should encourage people to not be afraid to try out the waters always as best they can, not scaring them away with talk about how hard or expensive it is. Nor by challenging whether or not they know what they are doing are not. We all can learn something along the way with that approach I think.

Mapman,

It has alway been expensive and most of us have started off knowing very little. I bought my first system when I was making $99/week and it was a cost me just over $800 or 15% of my yearly salary. Much later I bought the Infinity ServoStatics, two ARC stereo amps, and the SP3 for a combined total of $3000 when I was making $15,000 or 20% of my yearly salary. This time was worse as my nurse wife wasn't working while we had young children.

What is worse now, however, is the low standards that youth now has about music and how needy they are of having constant contact and music. We had no smart phones, internet, music everywhere, even outside elevators (meaning that they don't know what elevator music is). I'm not saying that we had it better, but we did have it different.