In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end?
High, medium or low-end can have many variables (i.e.: design & material usage, build quality, price, etc.), but has everything to do with the reproduction of recorded music. It’s that simple. The goal of all audiophiles and all “high-end” audio designers is to reproduce recorded music with the highest fidelity to the original performance as possible. Currently, it is not possible to duplicate true “live performance reproduction” so true high-end is more subjective than it is objective. Whatever it takes to achieve high fidelity is the ingredient(s) to “high-end.” There is no objective consensus as to which “recipe” offers the best approach to the end goal. Cost/price, by necessity, will almost certainly be associated with the pursuit of the high-end goal. However, as Albert stated, there are always exceptions, and fortunately, these exceptions are pretty much readily available (to achieve subjective methodology). |
Gogirl you need to read this - Hair Dryer for Sale Well - if you you use a "Chi" hair dryer then at least yours is not yet for sale on Audiogon. This one is apparently a Conair. There is hope yet! |
Shadorne, funny, I owned and used a Zerostat back in the day. It did do what it was advertised to do, but I never found static on vinyl to be such an earth shattering issue for me with my custom and quite proprietary record cleaning technique (see other thread on record cleaning techniques), so the zerostat went its way. |
Very interesting thread. Here's a (hopefully) simple question: According to the local standards, what is the most that can be spent on a system that is appropriately posted in the "budget-minded" category? (I realize this is to some extent relative to the owner's economic circumstances, but an non-relative figure might be helpful and interesting.) John |
