Nonoise, your friend reminds me a lot of this one audiophile I used to know. He couldn’t go two words about wire without turning it into some kind of rant or snide comment. Or for sure the eye roll or like you said, facial expressions and body language giving the truth away so no matter what he said you just knew he was convinced its all BS. Which I wish I had on video the time he brought his masterpiece homebrew wire over to demo, only to hear with his own ears just how pathetically awful it was. I mean there was no denying it. And he knew it. No matter what he said, the truth was as plain as the pain on his face.
This is what I really do not get. If you can’t hear a difference, why not just say you can’t hear a difference? Totally understandable. We all start from zero. Or if you can hear a difference but its not enough to be worth it to you, if you value your money more highly than your sound, why not just say so? Isn’t this the very basis on which to build a system? By putting together a bunch of components each of which are deemed the best value at the time? "Not worth it" is in that sense positive. Progress. Essential, even.
To be in denial though, that I do not understand at all.
The year is 2019. Four years ago Ted Denney came out with the 20th Anniversary Edition of his AC Master Coupler. 20th anniversary. Plus 4 years. According to my math that is 24 years. And Synergistic Research was hardly the first. They just happened to be the one to come out with a power cord so freaking good it sold for over 20 years and still commands high resale value even now.
That is an awful long time for there to still be people around so obtuse they still don’t get it. I mean that is the kind of dense known to warp space and time itself.
This is what I really do not get. If you can’t hear a difference, why not just say you can’t hear a difference? Totally understandable. We all start from zero. Or if you can hear a difference but its not enough to be worth it to you, if you value your money more highly than your sound, why not just say so? Isn’t this the very basis on which to build a system? By putting together a bunch of components each of which are deemed the best value at the time? "Not worth it" is in that sense positive. Progress. Essential, even.
To be in denial though, that I do not understand at all.
The year is 2019. Four years ago Ted Denney came out with the 20th Anniversary Edition of his AC Master Coupler. 20th anniversary. Plus 4 years. According to my math that is 24 years. And Synergistic Research was hardly the first. They just happened to be the one to come out with a power cord so freaking good it sold for over 20 years and still commands high resale value even now.
That is an awful long time for there to still be people around so obtuse they still don’t get it. I mean that is the kind of dense known to warp space and time itself.