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Brad Siim (siim@waterloo.hp.com) wrote:

: I have to agree with the first message that there is a fair bit of
: hype relating to marginal/very marginal improvements in sound quality
: due to the difference between good equipment and great equipment.  By
: equipment I am refering to $15 patch cords verses $150 patch cords,
: $1200 amps vs $6000 amps etc.  Do $5000 dollar tube amps sound that much
: better than $1000 dollar bipolar/FET amps? Or is the price being
: driven by the 'law of supply and demand' and our famous 'kinked Demand curve'?
: Charge what the market will bare??  

: Brad Siim

Yup, you're right.  Many people can't hear the difference, or it doesn't 
matter much to them.  HOWEVER....if you are into the ultimate in sound, and
really listen, you can hear the difference.  Many people have hobbies.  I
collect cars, which is expensive & takes up lots of room.  I've got friends
whose hobbies are their audio systems, which is more expensive and takes
up less room.

Maybe stamp collecting is the way to go; high cost/volume ratio.

My point is this:  You can look at all the frequency response graphs you 
want, and it isn't going to tell you how a system sounds.  Going by a purely
engineering outlook isn't going to give you a real idea about quality, because
there is stuff going on that we don't even begin to understand.  Just speaker
wire, as someone mentioned, can be quite expensive.  I think the current
state-of-the-art is multi-sized wires in a non-twisted bundle, low O2 copper,
etc. etc. etc.  OK, you might not be able to hear much, if any difference.
But someone can.

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