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RE: I'm not tempted

So the answer is no.

You don't have to buy everything you audition. The other day I sat in an Audi - doesn't mean I am going to now have to buy it. Nor will I piss on the car because I can't (or won't) afford one.

When I owned my Honda Civic Hatchback in 1996 that is all I could afford - I wouldn't then tell everyone who also drove a Honda Civic but proceeded to drive and buy a Lexus 400 or Bugatti Veyron that they wasted money on it until I sit in one and drive the thing. With Audio you don't even have to DO anything - all you have to do is get in a car or bus - go to a shop - sit in a chair - push play (and they'll probably do that for you) and that's it. It's not terribly difficult. I went to audio dealers every single weekend for 3 solid years in the 1990s. Pretty much every product that came into the province of British Columbia I auditioned. All the best measuring gear with THD figures that were like 0.00001% full bandwidth - the top of the line Krells and Levinsons and YBAs and Classe and Brystons, Rotels, Adcoms, Threshold (Pass designed), and Naims (PRaT), Linn, Haflers, Sima Audio (and Celeste) now Sim Audio (pick a name will ya), Odyssey, Bel Canto(those awful sounding class D amplifiers)- much better now - and ARC and McIntosh etc- not much escaped me.

I always believe in auditioning all the stuff you CAN'T afford - without listening to the best systems in the world - you have no frame of reference as to what the best actually is. And you can't try everything and it may not ultimately be to your taste. I can't stand Magnepan - some of my friends like it - most don't. But it doesn't matter - enough people like them (in fact love them) and for them it's panels or die.

People ragged on me a lot for not liking Magnepan or other ribbon planars, but the funny bit is most of them moved on to some sort of "dynamic driver" speaker. Guess woofers aren't so bad after all.


Now I get it - if you are mesmerized and blown away and gobsmacked by an expensive stereo system ringing in at 6 figures you may become disheartened. Guys who love cars but can only afford a Chevy Spark might become suicidal. Guys who love fine watches but can only afford a Timex, guys who love Margot Robbie but can only attract Laura Ingraham could all want to jump off a bridge.

To me it's a challenge - you hear the best systems and you then store that away. Try to attain some of that sound for what you can afford. The ole House sounds notion - but you still need to hear the head of the household.



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