[Audio Empire]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:40:13 -0800, Arny Krueger wrote
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:23:45 -0800, Arny Krueger wrote
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:06:32 -0800, Arny Krueger wrote
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I'm happy for you that cheap satisfies you. It will (and
probably always has) save you a heap of money 8^)

It is all about being able to hear with the ears and not
have that affected by the eyes.

I agree, mostly. But It's also about being able to hear
with the ears and not have that affected by the
pocketbook.

In the crowd I hang here in Detroit, limitations of the pocketbook has never
been an issue. However, none of see any purpose in enriching audio
charlatans.




No doubt that there are charlatans in abundance in the audio hobby. They sell
cables and interconnects and line cords that do nothing, green pens for your
CDs and DVDs that do nothing, cheap, digital clocks that have been "treated"
to act as line-noise eliminators when plugged into the same circuit as one's
hi-fi, and they do nothing either (except keep time). Then there are
myrtlewood blocks, which, when placed on top of your components, make them
"sound better" - needless to say, these are less than worthless. There are
such things as ceramic elevators to get your beautiful fire-hose sized
speaker cables up off your nasty carpets or wood floors, and of course, caps
for unused audio inputs which keep the stray electrons from "spilling out",
neither of which are of the slightest worth either.

But good equipment is a good audio investment. While you maintain that every
modern piece of electronic equipment sounds the same, I maintain that they
are all different. I do agree that the differences are inconsequential in the
long run (mostly. There are exceptions), and that lots of equipment is
overpriced for the performance advantage that it might enjoy over lesser
equipment, but I am sure that such differences do exist. It's up to you
whether or not they are important enough to you to pay the price.

Last time I was through Detroit, it looked like the entire populace would
have to pool their financial resources just to buy a newspaper! I've never
seen such poverty and urban blight in my life! The city is a disgrace to
this country. Detroit makes Oakland CA look like Beverly Hills by comparison!