Well, if they told you, "Oh man, your system is fine. You don't need to help me send my kids to college by buying anything from me!", they might be telling the truth. But that isn't likely to happen.
I've come to the same conclusion watching all the YouTubers too much and next year, I think I'm going to give them a rest. Every other week it is "something new and improved" that makes everything prior suck by comparison. Well, not exactly.
DACs and such have gotten to the point that while they definitely don't sound the same, we can surmise that at similar price points they all should sound pretty good.
These people have a vested interest in making you feel you need to part with your money. That's the name of the game.
Enough is Enough
I've been looking at changing my DAC. I was considering Lampizator, Playback Designs, and Ideon. Recently a dealer basically told me(with the exception of my subwoofer and music server) my system sucks. He went on to say, I should sell my amps, preamp, DAC, speakers, and start all over! I've owned several different speakers, amplifiers, and DACs. I've attended shows and several different dealers show rooms. In fact, I directly compared one of the amplifiers the dealer recommended to a Rowland 625 S2 amplifier and preferred the 625 S2. I didn't build my system in a vacuum. I determined what I wanted to spend, listened and purchase what I preferred. I've been in sales and submit it would have been better to recommend a DAC that would improve my system. So now I say, maybe enough is enough; because no matter what I have some dealer will tell me it's crap and I have to start over.
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