When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better?
I've always been a little bit suspicious when gear costs more than $25,000 . At $25,000 all the components should be the finest, and allow room for designer Builder and the dealer to make some money.
I mean that seems fair, these boxes are not volume sellers no one's making a ton of money selling the stuff.
But if I'm listening to a $40,000 amplifier I imagine me Liking it a whole lot more just because it costs $40,000. How many people have actually experienced listening to a $40,000 amplifier. It doesn't happen that often and usually when you do there's nothing else around to compare it to.
I'm just saying expensive gear is absolutely ridiculous. It's more of a head game I'm afraid. Some how if you have the money to spend, and a lot of people do, these individuals feel a lot better spending more money for something. Now you own it, and while listening to it you will always be saying to yourself that thing cost $40,000 and somehow you'll enjoy it more.
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@ps Hmm and the corollary to that speaker price might then be might be all the very expensive weddings with those in "love" with each other seeming to fail more and more as the $$$ go up? :D |
Which is why, 97 times out of 100, I prefer to sit at home (saving me travel time), in a room that is in part specifically designed for listening, in front of an audio system that evolved over the 54 years I have spent fiddling with it, costing me about $22,000 in improvements over those 54 years, a system that an audio engineer and blues musician just recently claimed was the best he had ever heard, excepting one that he worked on that cost it’s owner $165,000, and if he had to choose between the two, he would choose mine. |
@unreceivedogma , I am not sure if you understand where I am coming from. On a post of mine on another thread, it was brought to my attention by another poster ( a great individual, imo ), stating that he read a statement from a poster on WBF ( a site I enjoy )....in which he listens the way I do. And, the statement was : I want to hear " WHAT the musicians are doing on the stage ". This, to me, is the essence of listening to music. Because we are talking amplifiers on this thread, here is a brief story I spoke about on another thread. In early 2017 ( for shits and giggles ) I purchased a Nuforce STA200 amp, highly rated by a reviewer from The Absolute Sound Magazine. It was $500 to purchase this amp, so why not. Based on what I listen for, it bettered so many other amps in my collection, so I sold many from my stash locally from my collection. All quite expensive in relation to this little gem. In fact, it got someone posting HERE, quite upset, as he owned one of these amps I sold. This person actually thought that my amp ( the same one he owned, and cherished ) was old, out of spec, and needed work. Well, I was happy to sell this perfectly mint example, and received lots of money for it ( there was actually a bidding war on it ). Needless to say, this poster has since not liked me, as I suppose this person took offense to it. It is fine, because my music listening, is for me, and me alone. I know I listen differently than many others, and my ears / brain works a particular way, as everyone else's. I was 15 when I knew the " sound " I was looking for, and what characteristics are important to me. Enough of my blabbing......Whatever makes one happy. My best to all. Always, MrD. |
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