Well this leaves,me out.
The law of diminshing returns?
Came across this article today, just wanted to share it for your perspectives. https://hometheaterhifi.com/blogs/expensive-dacs-what-exactly-are-you-getting-for-the-money/
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The principle of diminishing return is located in audio between the subjective evaluation of sound as an acoustic experience and the objective value of gear design...The P.D.R. is not about money but about the ratio involved between pure acoustics science and engineering science...It is inevitable principle as inevitable is trade-off principles... It is not then something which concern merely the budget of the poor as someone suggested and is supposed to be of no concern for the goal of audiophile.....
Why is it not clear for all then ? Why so much "audiophile" thought about it as a vulgar money question in no way related to audiophile working methodology ? Because people understand audio through the gear pricing not so much through acoustics experience and controls and psycho-acoustics parameters and controls... Saying that the sky is the limit nevermind the money if we are audiophiles is preposterous claim sorry... This motto, the sky is the limit, nevermind money, comes from marketing conditioning not from audio and acoustics wisdom and experience...
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Enjoyment and also objective learning about basics (acoustics being the most important ) ... Now i learned basics and i enjoy music with a good sound with no squirrel upgrading wheel obsession...Because it is a low cost system , it does not mean that it has no value for audiophile... Any system at any price can reach his optimal working level or not... Thats audiophile goal: any system must reach his optimal working level using audio basics knowledge... Price has nothing to do with audiophile learnings... It is more important to have a dedicated acoustically controlled room anyway than a 100,000 bucks system in the living room ... We live an era where price does not means as much as in the past decades... Thanks to engineerring progress in audio... Buy an Edgar Choueiri DSP system for example if your budget is higher than mine and call it job done... Read Choueiri articles and see his video to understand why... This is not marketing it is a plasma physicist with a job who do acoustics studies as a hobby...
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@ghdprentice +1 Acceptance of the facts that time/effort/knowledge and money will give one better results when assembling a HEA system. Many budget orientated Audiophiles lack knowledge due to the limited time and effort applied to this hobby, claiming "snake oil"(law of diminishing returns) as their mantra. |
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