Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say?

@quickjack1234 

So this answers my question about whether I should spend money on audio equipment or a really nice car.

Of course what comes with buying a really nice car is a very expensive Insurance plan every year versus audio equipment which is covered by my homeowners policy, ie. Not much to insure.  My guess is that repair bills to maintain an older Ferrari are a lot more than maintaining audio audio system.

Clearly you said FU to all the above. And now you're enjoying your life when you're away from your home driving a really nice car.  And when you're with your friends there's no way on this planet they would say anything negative about your car, except for the crappy audio system installed in the car which is very odd they’d do that.  I would be listening to the car and probably not turn on the audio system when I'm driving it.  But then maybe your friends always wanna drive your car and then what do you do. I wouldn't want anybody driving my Ferrari, not even my twin brother if I had a twin.

Just for your information, I don't own a car right now and should I ever be in a position to buy one again I will be buying an Audi.

Are you freaking kidding me, if anybody comes in and listens to my system and says anything critical I would be very very unhappy with them. my feeling would be that they have no idea what they're talking about.

You remain freaking silent about critiquing a system.  Just say how you really enjoy the tune.  

you notice immediately it's just not very good.

Let's turn it around and ask ourselves how would we react if someone said that to us about our system?

Personally, I’d appreciate an honest evaluation of my perhaps quixotic quest in the redux of my diy Walsh by one or more ’experienced ears’ sans pressure and expectations. So far, I’ve had positive responses, but one can still have a reluctance to accept such from ’non-philes’ of unknown experiences....

Nice, normal, ’noia.....*L*

Lacking locals of acquaintance with ’non-adulterated’ listening skills, it’s difficult to properly rate my attempts to do the improbable with the unlikely.... ;)

It’s frustrating, but I trundle on...even if only to amuse self and perhaps y’all can wonder WTH I’m really accomplishing....esp. with non-sota stuff.....

" ’Tis what it is..." How well ’is’ Is?

Some feedback would be nice....

When I listen to other audiophile’s systems I typically think "Sounds good". Not bad but also not "I’ve gotta get out and buy one of those". Not like "It’s so great you just spend 20K on that tonearm and cart". It sounds so much better now.

Ultimately we are limited by the quality of the source. No matter what you do or spend, you can only get so much blood out of a stone. A question is "Do you get better sound from an SACD vs CD than a new set of I/C's, etc?" Of course, if you have no upgrade in source, the only way to get an improvement is more money on components and set-up.

Perhaps hi-end audio is more about the trees than the forest.