People often vary in degrees in regards to experimentation. There are people who must build their own equipment according to their own specification. There are people who do extensive research and auditions before making purchases. And there are people who wants to be led like lambs to a slaughter.
I am not categorizing people who post on Audiogon as one of the three personas above. Obviously there are more. But this demonstrates there are varied types of people out there who will ask very technical questions to very brain dead questions; very self serving questions and very asserting questions.
I think for most of us, including myself, there are just too many options, and we all want to be sure that we end up with the right options with our limited resources.
For an example, I did a day's worth of research on the internet on tubes. I seem to have decided on getting a set of Siemens 6922 and a set of Svetlana 6550. I posted a "Newbie Tube Question" thread to ask whether these would work with my ARC amp. Also, I wanted to know who to deal with because I didn't want to end up with low quality or bogus tubes.
It seems simple enough that I can just plop in the tubes and listen for myself. But this would be a costly experiment. Asking a brain dead question would probably save me lots of dead brain cells in the long run, assuming I get the right responses.
I am not categorizing people who post on Audiogon as one of the three personas above. Obviously there are more. But this demonstrates there are varied types of people out there who will ask very technical questions to very brain dead questions; very self serving questions and very asserting questions.
I think for most of us, including myself, there are just too many options, and we all want to be sure that we end up with the right options with our limited resources.
For an example, I did a day's worth of research on the internet on tubes. I seem to have decided on getting a set of Siemens 6922 and a set of Svetlana 6550. I posted a "Newbie Tube Question" thread to ask whether these would work with my ARC amp. Also, I wanted to know who to deal with because I didn't want to end up with low quality or bogus tubes.
It seems simple enough that I can just plop in the tubes and listen for myself. But this would be a costly experiment. Asking a brain dead question would probably save me lots of dead brain cells in the long run, assuming I get the right responses.