They know we will pay anything they can think of
Anyone have any idea how long ago Hifi manufacturers discovered we (audiophiles) will pay almost anything chasing our perfect sound? I individualized it because each of us are reaching for our own personal nirvana. You can go to any audio show, see someone point to a piece of equipment and ask the price. Out comes a price you know the rep made up while sitting in his office wondering how much he can ask those sick people to pay. We know advertising, manufacturing, and overhead is relatively expensive but we also know that the asking price should take care of that if he sells maybe 4 or 5 of them all year. Knowing that I have paid quite a bit for equipment over the years that I knew I shouldn't have but did anyway.
@oddiofyl 5K in some of todays market wouldn't come near purchasing the hifi gear currently available. However having said that, if you are frugal you can get some good deals on very good sounding gear. Some of the very expensive stuff, I just look at and never consider buying. |
@mike_in_nc The next time a tax cut comes up.... refuse it. You may have more money than you know what to do with so this post probably isn't really for you. |
I created my acoustic room with plumber tubes from my basements for 100 Helmholtz resonators... I used mechanical crossfeed to improve the holographic acoustic perception.. I used foldable screens as lenses and diffusors or absorbers or reflectors...And many other improvised devices at very low costs , a few bucks, nothing marketed as tweaks except springs and cheap Schumann generators i modified etc ... I lost my room... I dwelved then in my unloved 200 bucks small speakers i owned from 10 years ago or 12 and put them on computer function for all this time because i never bother to optimize them to begin with ...After the lost of my acoustic room i had no other choice nor any other speakers to work with save the unloved one ... I transformed them with cardboard and straws and isolation and damping and i put them in a small acoustic corner of my basement ... They go now from their unsufficient 85 hertz to 50 hertz which is enough 😁... My best optimization control was wood plates beside each speakers to mechanically decrease crosstalk in near field listening now... My system is so good in near listening i cannot quit the music imaging, timbre and soundstage... This small box system is better than my past headphones, with the exception of my main audiophile system now headphone based... How is the cost of audiophile experience ? Peanuts costs if you learn basic electrical, mechanical, and especially acoustical embeddings controls... By the way i am not an engineerr nor a very talented craftworthy person.... .But many experiments cost nothing and acoustic is fun to learn in its basic...Forget equations, experiment with the simple principles behind the equations and dont bother for perfection... We must learn how to hear using acoustic concepts applied... Audio is like medecine , learn to know your body needs and stay away from doctors if not chirurgically necessary; and learn acoustic basics and stay away from audio marketing.... Many people prefer to pay than to learn because it takes time and they prefer the power of money to knowledge..... Marketers count on this to make money...
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