Rob, I don't understand the ABX testing you mentioned (what is it?), but I do know that quite a bit of the higher end gear is made to appeal to the ego and I agree with your point. So is a $10,000 turntable 10X better than a $1000 turntable, or a $100K turntable 10X better than a $10K turntable?. I sincerely doubt it. That was my point about diminishing returns and as John Sessoms pointed out, there's a lot of different necessities as well as wants vying for priority when it comes to dividing up our own financial pies. Every single turntable from $250 on up makes the same basic claim regarding fidelity.
Yes I do believe that spending more money on a given product may yield improvement in quality, but there's both a practical ceiling (i.e., I cannot afford any more) and there's some threshold at which the amount of money spent no longer represents a proprtional linear improvement in quality and may even start becoming inversely proportional to the improvement that's been achieved. Did that make any sense? :-) There's also the wife factor. I may be able to justify and get by with spending a $1000 on a new camera now and then. But if I spent as much money on a hi-fi system as could be spent on a vehicle or a house, my life would not be worth living. Tom On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/11/2009, J.C. O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not that Onkyo and Pioneer are junk, but they are >> are a long long away from full vinyl reproduction >> pinnacle, read my post and comprehend it, I said a >> $10,000 turntable doesn't sound as good as the >> best, currently around $100,000. By deduction a >> $1000 turntable doesn't sound as good as a $100K one either. >> your still playback gear limited at $1K for sure. > > John, that's just crap, of course one would hope that more $$$ in gear > would equate to improved resolution/fidelity but it's not a rule. At > that level for most people it's just another way to say look at me, > look at what I have, look at what I can afford, the repro fidelity is > secondary. > > A bit of ABX testing would sort out a lot of the BS that goes on in > the ultra-hifi circles, of course most "golden eared" folk won't go > near ABX testing just in case. > > Just my humble opinion (to which I'm also entitled). > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
