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In Reply to: Well... posted by Presto on February 19, 2006 at 03:30:57:
> > First rule of audio is that the law of diminishing returns
> > definately applies.I don't agree with this if one is carefully building their systems. I think the difference in harmonic coherency between a good $5000 system and a good $15,000 system more than justifies the price increase alone. Other things like ultimate loudness, large scale dynamicism, and frequency extension might be "improved" little or not at all between these systems.
As far as I can tell there's a big difference in objective performance between a $40,000 system and a $15,000 system. The difference between objective quality is clear and obvious. Of course this isn't so obvious if one's comparing systems with different sets of subjectively synergistic qualities.
At this point even dismissing ultimate loudness as a non-issue and relegating bass extension to secondary importance how much can one expect to spend beyond the $15K while maintaining the systems current strengths and achieving a greater sense of dynamcism? I'm thinking double or triple. If one just want's increased loudness or dynamicism without regard to preserving the systems strengths they can make horizontal moves - but to get worthwhile improvements in it all my experiences so far have been that spending 4 or 5 times as much is what is required.
How worthwhile any real objective performance improvement is to any individual is a personal thing. But surely if one wants to get worthwhile improvements considerable spending is required and if one deems such improvement worthwhile then it is worthwhile. The law of diminishing returns has nothing to do with it. If someone already has a dynamically expressive $15,000 system it might not be worth another $15K to improve that quality - but it might be worth another $15 - $30 K to improve the systems musical coherence, ultimate loudness or frequency extension.
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Follow Ups
- Disagree with your first rule! - Don T 02/19/0608:06:50 02/19/06 (3)
- Diminishing returns does apply - groove 09:41:31 02/19/06 (2)
- Re: Diminishing returns does apply - Don T 15:52:11 02/19/06 (1)
- Re: Diminishing returns does apply - groove 11:48:07 02/20/06 (0)
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