Patrick Dixon Wrote: > Some people amaze me! If you have a very small collection of 100 CDs, > you've probably spent in excess of $1000 just to purchase them, yet you > begrudge $500 on the equipment to listen to what's on them! And if you > cheapskate on the quality of the equipment you are probably only > hearing half the music anyway; so you're chucking away $500 of what > you've already spent. > > Where's the sense in that? There's more sense in their choices than this argument! :-)
The number of CDs demonstrates the desire to repeatedly listen to a variety of selections. HOW that music is listened to is an entirely different subject, and has no direct relationship to quantity of discs. ( And the quality of many CDs, esp, old recordings, is quite poor anyway. You can't polish a turd. ) Most folks just work around the house, or go about their business, while their tunes are blasting. They don't need perfect staging and imaging, to sit in the sweet spot, worry about how transparent the playback is, blah, blah, blah. My wife works, clattering away at the keyboard, while SB2 does its magic. She couldn't be happier. Oh, and we have a great deal many more than 100 CDs. I recall this guy I knew way back who plunked down over 100k on his sound equipment. It was more expensive that his house. He had no children, no girlfriend, no life outside of sitting in that centered chair between his two ceiling-high magneplanar speakers, fretting about hurting his $500 stylus, or tripping over those $1000 wires. Knowing what's "good enough" is the key to life, my friend. :-) -- MrC _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
