noromance:
You put your finger on one of the more perplexing aspects of high end audio. So many audiophiles seem to care more about being able to explain than being able to experience. Which okay, always nice to know why something works. Guys especially for some reason take pride in knowing what they’re doing, and why, and look down on all the poor weak saps stumbling around in the dark clueless. I’m a little like that myself. More than a little. Nowhere near enough though that I’m gonna deny reality and take a pass on some of the biggest bangs for the audio buck in history.
Because the plain fact of the matter is nobody really knows why hardly any of this stuff works. If they did they’d all be doing it. Like take aerodynamics. Pretty much everyone knows why airplanes fly. The result is they all look so much alike you’d have to be an expert to tell one from another. With audio its like they still haven’t figured out if three wings are better, or even if we need wings at all.
But whatever. I still say the greatest asset you can have in life is to know thyself. If you’re not the type to buy anything no matter how good it is or how great a deal unless and until you think it makes sense according to your own particular theory of how things should be, that is probably good to know.
I’ve no doubt they make a change or an improvement. I understand they have R&D costs and salaries to pay all those sales people. I’m just not diggin’ the price. For a fuse. I paid almost $400 for a pair of new tubes and that was pushing it!
You put your finger on one of the more perplexing aspects of high end audio. So many audiophiles seem to care more about being able to explain than being able to experience. Which okay, always nice to know why something works. Guys especially for some reason take pride in knowing what they’re doing, and why, and look down on all the poor weak saps stumbling around in the dark clueless. I’m a little like that myself. More than a little. Nowhere near enough though that I’m gonna deny reality and take a pass on some of the biggest bangs for the audio buck in history.
Because the plain fact of the matter is nobody really knows why hardly any of this stuff works. If they did they’d all be doing it. Like take aerodynamics. Pretty much everyone knows why airplanes fly. The result is they all look so much alike you’d have to be an expert to tell one from another. With audio its like they still haven’t figured out if three wings are better, or even if we need wings at all.
But whatever. I still say the greatest asset you can have in life is to know thyself. If you’re not the type to buy anything no matter how good it is or how great a deal unless and until you think it makes sense according to your own particular theory of how things should be, that is probably good to know.