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WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR?

It seems like when I see comments on high end gear there is a lot of negativity. I have been an audiophile for the last 20 years. Honestly, if you know how to choose gear and match gear a lot of the high end gear is just better. When it comes to price people can charge what they want for what they create. If you don’t want it. Don’t pay for it. Look if you are blessed to afford the best bear and you can get it. It can be very sonically pleasing. Then do it. Now if you are also smart and knowledgeable you can get high end sound at mid-fi prices then do it. It’s the beauty of our our hobby. To build a system that competes with the better more expensive sounding systems out there. THOUGHTS?

calvinj

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barts
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A buddy of mine is very wealthy and his stereo is a boom box, I needled him in the past about that and he just says that is all he really needs.

He owns several high end cars, the usual suspects.  We were out in one of the Ferraris and got caught in a traffic jam.  The guy in the next lane is staring at the car so I say "Hey, how you doin'?".  He comes back with (sneeringly)  "Better than you are!".  So I ask "Why is that?".  He replies "Because I'm ahead of you and your half million dollar car!"  And he was...going 2 mph in his Camry he had me by a bumper.  I just smiled.

He may have been beat to much as a pup.  

Envy is a terrible vice.

Regards,

barts

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barts
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@grislybutter 

Honestly I don't see how it says anything about me.  I was driving a buddy's car on a pleasant afternoon (he was in the passenger seat).  I was polite, he was not. Maybe I didn't describe the situation clearly enough, I guess you just had to be there. If you can read more into it than that I have no answer for you.

"Your assumptions say more about you than him". Not from my perspective.

Regards,

barts

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