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).
In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end?
Hey All,
I am new to this arena and for all the reading and homework it seems like there is a lot of circumstance out there. It seems that the comment that I see the most is, “…see how it works with your system.” And while this is true about a great many things in life it seems that we are all trying to find a sense for balance for our budget. The other thing that I learned is the spending a lot will not always yield the desired result.
So…regardless of price, here is my question. In your opinion, if your were to put together a system (say something to do it all, as I don’t know about everyone else but I couldn’t afford one for music and one for movies and other activities) in the following three categories: as high medium and low; what would it look like?
Say maybe with the following categories:
1) Processor, Preamp & Amp OR Receiver
2) Sources (CD, Phono or whatever)
3) Cables (Speak, Interconnect and whatever)
4) Power and related products
5) Other tweaks
Did I miss anything? Please feel free to add. :D
There are no motives hear but to learn, I have just bought a bunch of stuff that make me happy and I am just curious or maybe trying to prove that I am not on crack. ;-)
Cheers,
Blu
I am new to this arena and for all the reading and homework it seems like there is a lot of circumstance out there. It seems that the comment that I see the most is, “…see how it works with your system.” And while this is true about a great many things in life it seems that we are all trying to find a sense for balance for our budget. The other thing that I learned is the spending a lot will not always yield the desired result.
So…regardless of price, here is my question. In your opinion, if your were to put together a system (say something to do it all, as I don’t know about everyone else but I couldn’t afford one for music and one for movies and other activities) in the following three categories: as high medium and low; what would it look like?
Say maybe with the following categories:
1) Processor, Preamp & Amp OR Receiver
2) Sources (CD, Phono or whatever)
3) Cables (Speak, Interconnect and whatever)
4) Power and related products
5) Other tweaks
Did I miss anything? Please feel free to add. :D
There are no motives hear but to learn, I have just bought a bunch of stuff that make me happy and I am just curious or maybe trying to prove that I am not on crack. ;-)
Cheers,
Blu
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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 |
I can't answer maximum dollar invested and still quality as "budget." I think that's the responsibility and opinion of the system owner. I put together a system for a friend, all used equipment bought through Audiogon. Total was about $1500.00 and sonically it qualifies as high end. It's been four years since we did that. He plays it every day, all day and has had no reliability issues. A bit of luck here I think :^). I still get thanks for putting it together, he was about to go to Best Buy and drop nearly that much on junk. |
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