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What is wrong with Audiophiles?

Well, many issues. The pursuit after uber-expensive interconnects, speaker cables, power conditioners, power cables can be rediculous. Not to mention Audiophiles who paint the outer sides of their CD's with a green marker. A few days ago I visited a local hi-fi exhibition in Israel. Two of the most impressive rooms where the YG Acoustics with an all NAGRA amplification and the Focal room. The speaker cables in the first room cost $70,000. That was also the cost of the speaker cable in the Focal room. One could buy a BMW or a Merc AMG or a Porsche for that much money. Does this make sense to you? And, lest I forget, I have an Audiophile neighbor in the building where I live. I offered him to borrow a CD of an Israeli singer that I admire. How is the quality of the recording, he asked. "average", I answered. "No, I can't listen to average recordings", he replied. I call that "Audiophilia neurosis". 
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mahgister
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In some asylum of the past it was common to encounter in the white corridors some insane man perfectly logical and sometimes a kind of scientist, speaking to some foolish patients unable even to think orderly about something...It is my impression of this thread....

Perhaps am I the more foolish amongst all the customers of the place, if I myself think of me that I am the doctor in charge of the asylum ? I will be silent now, perhaps I am the doctor in charge after all ? Or only a fool reading soul of other fools...


In this short parabola of mine, each of us we are actors and we plays all and each part like actors, forgetting if we are this person. or this one, or the doctor in charge, or a spectator... Being wise we discover that we are all that at least once...My best to all without distinction...
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By far the majority of our impressions of imaging and sound-stage are the speaker/room interaction (within limits of the recording), so if you don’t have that right, no $ value of electronics is going to fix it.
I am very pleased by this observation because that is the result I gain with all my homemade experiments(tweaks)… My room treatment all in all cost me around 100 dollars in materials of diverse densities including the many dozen metal buckets of the dollar store...And guess what ? With this price I gained holographic imaging, and soundstage from my speakers in regular distance listening and near field listening also...

For all people without big money, you can afford hi-fi, with wise choices in electronics but last and not least room homemade treatment if you trust your own ears...My best to all...

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