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What you do claim

is that only *marketing* separates mid-fi from the best available. Such is not the case.

These systems sound good and serve the music well and are certainly hi fidelity.

Sure. High fidelity in this context being a relative term. Middle of the pack.

In the end each man chooses the level at which he's satisfied; that a man feels satisfaction at a lower level than you doesn't mean he's satisfied for less, it means he's satisfied with less, know what I mean?

I do understand and I am not an elitist. I am quite content to listen to MP3s on my Palm phone and Shure earbuds. I spend more time listening to the Advents in the garage than the big stats upstairs. The thirty year old beat-up-utility-cabinet Advents give me great pleasure. Objectively speaking, however, they are simply not as good. Similarly, there are tons of systems better than any of mine. I've had the good fortune to hear and enjoy several. I rather like hearing stuff from my music that I have never before been able to discern. Being able to acknowledge and appreciate what is available is an altogether different concept from being satisfied with what you have. I don't have to own something in order to value its worth.

Modest systems offer modest performance. Fine. To suggest that the finest systems, however, are merely a marketing spin, ignores reality. I don't understand why folks are antagonistic about the pinnacle of performance in any realm. As a motor head, there is no finer music to me than hearing the shriek of an F1 engine running at 18,000 RPM. Will I ever own such? Are you kidding? :)

rw

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