The "diminishing returns" theory is common, but false in my experience. How do you calculate the "10x better" of a properly set up $100,000 system compared to a $10,000 system?
the "diminishing returns" zone , because it is more a zone than a point is not a theory but a problem...
The point is a zone oscillating between two factors: a subjective psychoacoustics factors of evaluation and an objective refinement design factor of evaluation ...
it is clear if we understand the factors at play that this zone of evaluation exist ....
Then a 300,000 dollars turntable is an interesting design experiment but in no way an interesting piece of gear to own....
the reason is not only the zone problem of evaluation between money invested and acoustic experience real or virtual returns, but the reason is that a multimillions system is not a MODEL for audiophile...Nor the solution in general "per se" to our S.Q. problems and experience...
I dont bash high end gear saying this evident fact...😊
For almost every audiophiles the diminishing returns problem exist ...
Not for Bill gates who may call it a theory unfounded for him....Bill gates does not need to learn basic acoustics with homemade devices as i did he call the best acoustician in the world . He does not even need to study medecine he buy the WHO problem solved. 😊
I dont live on the same planet ...
A 300,000 turntable is a technological feat asking for an acoustic room of many million dollars and for an amplifier and speakers of stratosopheric price... It is an experiment in acoustic design not the model we can imitate ...
And as i said acoustics rule audiophile experience not gear price tags....
This does not means that gear price tags had no real acoustic potential added value nor any improving quality meaning...For sure they are....
At the end , an audiophile who study basic acoustic in my opinion is less ignorant than one who bought 45 amplifiers but never experiment with acoustics ( it is not only room acoustic) ...
Gear choices and price matter for synergy and improvement but it is for nothing if we dont know how to install and embed a system in his mechanical,electrical and acoustical basic working dimensions...
The rules of acoustics dont change with the gear price tag... Is it not common sense ?
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