Florian Haasxahteiwi@mastodon.social
Mar 12, 2023, 7:17 AM@dan Yet another example of how extremism is indistinguishable from its parody.
Thanks to @jcfischer for the pointer; this gave me a good chuckle to start my Sunday morning. 🙂
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Mar 12, 2023, 7:20 AM@xahteiwi @dan I had these kinds of discussions around 25 years ago when I worked in an IT company, where the boss also was into HiEnd and helped design and produce speakers. The gear he had in his office was astounding.
But I also learnt to appreciate just how good good sounding gear sounds. Forever changed the price tag of Audio equipment I bought. (Around 2k is the sweet spot to get great audio). Luckily he wasn’t in that camp, but some of employees and colleagues…
Tane Piper ⁂tanepiper@tane.codesMar 14, 2023, 7:25 AM@jcfischer @xahteiwi @dan That's the thing, there is a perceptible difference *at some level* mostly because €2000 is going to get you better drivers, higher quality materials and build. Much like the difference between a commercial violin and a hand-crafted one.
But the gains beyond that diminish quickly.
- Mar 15, 2023, 6:46 AM
@tanepiper @xahteiwi @dan exactly this. I mean, it was fun to listen to a Krell amplifier that cost 50k but as you said, the differences become miniscule
- Florian Haasxahteiwi@mastodon.socialMar 15, 2023, 4:20 PM
Gentlemen, I'm gonna confess that I do quite like me some Hendrix played through the aux input of my cranked Marshall. 😀
- Mar 16, 2023, 10:05 PM
nice rig :)
- Mar 12, 2023, 7:23 AM
@xahteiwi @dan also at that time the best sounding CD players were cheap CD-ROMs from PCs. Simple reason: They transferred data in 8bits, and fed them to a DAC with an external clock, while audio CDs fed data serial to DAC and clock was derived from bit stream. That led to jitter, while the el-cheapo CD-ROMs had stable clock :)