I'm frustrated with people who don't ...


Sorry for a long post...
Recently I was at a 3-day meeting out of town for work. For an evening activity we had a cook out at a colleague's house. While there, we gathered around his deck and a small fire in the back yard. I found myself in a group of 6 guys discussing hobbies. I mentioned my love for audio and began to describe my system and music library. Almost instantly, I was "pounced" for believing that any "hi end" component is worth the money compared to anything else one can buy from Best Buy. "Digital is digital" one guy stated, "an $89 player is as good as anything else out there". I attempted to defend my position but in no way was I able to convince anyone. I told them the next time they're in town, I'd have them over to my place and let them hear the difference, but I know most will not acknowledge the quality of sound. Footnote: I've known these guys for 3-5 years and they are professional level headed guys, I wasn't bragging, I made no grand statements that my system is better than anything else, I just talked about my interest and brought it up when they asked me. The icing on the cake was their disbelief that my system can only play one CD at a time... "you don't have a carousel on your CDP?" Man, I was frustrated.
mijknarf

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I just tell people that is it really great that they are happy with their components (cheap ass best buy stuff), and just explain that I can hear a difference and it causes me to spend way to much money that they are saving.

Actually, I'll talk about my video system since people can see the difference versus hear the difference.... 103" Screen blows everyone away and they start asking that how much I just state it cost less than the 400 DVD's I have..

In person they sit there with their mouths on the floor (video system), but sit them in front of my audio system they say wow that's dynamic or clean but they don't know how to listen critically or even care.. their 64kbps MP3's sound good to them...

I avoid talking prices because as everyone stated no one understands (even here on the forum) why 3 of my cables cost $16,000? This is a really painful discussion with my engineering friends... a wire is a wire..

Any high end hobby people don't get.. many people on this forum wouldn't understand why I have mountain bicycles that cost $5k either?