Audiophile frame of mind
It amazes me how I can justify my audio purchases and don't think much about them with something costing several thousand dollars. I know this goes with any hobby but I had a funny thought over the weekend. The last OEM part of my system that I have been considering an upgrade is power cables. I only have a couple random low end audioquest cables that I got as part of purchases several years ago. Shunyata recently launched two new lines, Gamma and Theta. I was thinking about the Gamma and to start with my monoblocks for the first 2 cables of a system that needs 6 total. It would cost about $1300 for those 2. That is the same cost of a nice Weber stainless steel grill with a side burner. I couldn't go forward with getting an official quote on the cables. Looks like I will be grilling in style this summer!
@grislybutter Oooooh. A mere $41K for the Kalamazoo? That's like half price of a Constellation Audio Centaur 2 500 amp! Way too cheap for my taste. @cfa88 No - $41K for a grill is not subjective. It's expensive. Once you start using oligarch-audio pricing as a reference, then it all becomes meaningless. None of us are oligarchs. |
I just put a new resonator made of straws inside the one i made with a discarded long plastic tube i picked in a field walking to decompress the new beautiful sound a bit ...😊 If i had changed my dac for a costlier one i would add so much adjectives to describe the improvement i just add with a few straws... Audiophile state of mind ? ...No, acoustic state of mind ...😊 Cost : 10 cents or 15...
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i remember when some mocked me few years ago after i called my grid of 100 tunable resonators : "mechanical equalizer" for system/room...😊 In my acoustic frame of mind i claimed that it was most powerful than many electronical equalizer ( will not explain why again here) and cost nothing except time and "trained ears" for the tuning .,.. Read this extract quote from "Helmholtz resonance" Wiki entry : «A set of varied size resonators was sold to be used as discrete acoustic filters for the spectral analysis of complex sounds. There is also an adjustable type, called a universal resonator, which consists of two cylinders, one inside the other, which can slide in or out to change the volume of the cavity over a continuous range. An array of 14 of this type of resonator has been employed in a mechanical Fourier sound analyzer. »
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Then generally "audiophile state of mind" is linked to the next upgrading gear cost... As illustrated by the OP statement... "acoustic state of mind" by contrast is motivated by real listening under control experience and experiments at no cost or peanuts costs...😊 "audiophile state of mind" is not really aimed to sound improvement often but to gear design improvement... Acoustics is not reducible to gear design quality... In the three equation part : ears/room/system, the pieces of gear are, so important they may be and they are, secondary... ( especially when a synergetical basic system is available already at a relatively low price according to your budget) I bet to be one of the rare one saying it this way and clearly ... 😁😊😋😎
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