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In Reply to: Do you believe "you get what you pay for" in audio? posted by M3 lover on February 17, 2006 at 13:59:09:
But IMO, beyond entry level, the cost of the components are less important than the mix of components.Surely one can always get some improvement in some aspect of performance by spending more money - but what's important is how this improvement effects one listening experience.
It's a system thing - there's no reason one should conclude that any system that costs $20,000 is going to sound better than a $2000 system comprised of carefully chosen components. Of course IMO a $20,000 system comprised of well chosen components is going to sound much better than the great $2000 system. There's no way to know if a $20,000 system made up of a random conglomeration of components is going to sound better than a $2,000 assembled in a similar fashion. Additionally anything other than first hand experimentation and listening is most likely going to lead to random conglomerations.
Audiophiles always talk about that law of diminishing returns. I think believing that's about as bs as believing that spending more is all it takes to get better. I've heard wonderfully musically coherent systems in the ~$15K/$20K new retail price range - but I've never heard a system with this kind of price being capable of natural large scale dynamicism and extended natural sounding bass response. Would musical coherency with extended bass response and added dynamicsim be worth buying a ~$40k/$60k system to achieve? If my room could support it - heck yes and I wouldn't feel for one minute that I was getting any less for the second/third $15k than I got for the first. Maybe this law kicks in at the high price points?
But then again I don't know for sure that I can't get it all in a ~$20K/$30K system. Add to the mix that I don't even know if I can get what I want by spending more in the first place.
From experience, unless I know for sure, more than likely spending more money is more like paying for "dung" than audio nirvana. Without local dealers with wide selections of components worthy of being in $20K+ systems, the thought of spending more is mostly a fantasy that experience tells me will end in tragedy.
Sure you get what you pay for with audio - but whether you pay for great sound or audio dung is up to you. And this hobby has a plethora of excuses and justifications all ready and waiting for those of us looking for excuses to justify why our expensive supposedly great audio systems sound so bad.
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