You guya are arguing affordability and prestige factors which having nothing to do with the issue, which is whether for $1000 grand total you can assemble a phono rig capable of the same sonic quality as a $10K or $100K one. You cant. At $1000 you are not nearly as good as it gets so to speak.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital - the "all vinyl is noisy" myth, , exposedinvideo On 15/11/2009, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob, > > I don't understand the ABX testing you mentioned (what is it?), Hi Tom et al, Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABX_test > 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 of money spent no longer represents a proprtional linear improvement 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? :-) Yes that would be the hope but it's not a rule. Some extraordinary claims, materials and processes accompany top dollar gear often, especially cables. The mind boggles at the gullibility of some. > 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. Indeed, family can also limit options, as soon as my little guy came along most of my good audio gear went into storage, I rarely miss it now. Cheers, -- 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.
