After a half century in this crazy hobby, there are certain lessons learned
- This hobby is a journey and never a final destination.
- It always was a continual desire to upgrade and improve, with a series of incremental steps to “yep ..it sounds really good”. The expensive hurdle now is that further audio improvements is trapped by the cold hard facts by the inverse ratio: a further 25% improvement requires a ka-Ching 4X outlay in cash …well into five figures per most components .
- as I aged and transitioned into retirement, that ethereal insatiable thirst for a higher “good” was flattened and tempered with a certain element of acceptance of “ good enough”. But never a finite “final” acceptance yet ,.,. Further tweaking options are left open.
TAKEAWAY : audio value for $$ spent ….
In my view, good audio performance value doesn’t come down to how cheap something is; for me it’s about how much you get for the money.
In those terms, it comes to materials, premium design and quality build, that spurs performance,
“Price is what you pay, Value is what you get.”
- Warren Buffett