Wow someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning
...
But he has a point!
On the other hand, apart from DIY, it is not like gardening, it
is a consumer-item pastime, and when someone posts, with a lot of detail and enthusiasm, about their latest acquisition, I feel the post is incomplete without some information about where they bought it and how much it cost. For starters, if we get infected by their enthusiasm, we want to know if we can get
realistically enthusiastic or not. If they
didn't tell, there is certainly no harm in asking.
On the other
other hand, the forum does tend to toe the line that
quality is directly proportional to cost as if it was a law of physics (will someone even reply to this post, telling me that good hifi needs good engineering, and good engineering is expensive? It wouldn't surprise me
). How many posts do we see telling people, "You don't
need to spend that much?" You are
much more likely to see, "You will only hear this if you
do spend this much," or, "My system is probably not good [=expensive] enough to hear the difference with component
x instead of component
y". They
might have more reasonably concluded that component
x was hotter on hype than performance!
I do it too. I have spent the last several years telling people that they can get extremely good analogue sound out of a PC --- but they must spend at least Rs.
nn,000 on the interface. It was based on experience, that I believe to be genuine, of an upgrade path, the steps of which were not subtle, but obvious in result. Even so, my basic assumptions have, recently, been severely challenged.
Heck... even now, I am dreaming of something that I found on the net at about 3.00am today, which happens to be
just what I've been looking for (It's a headphone amp, with balanced input and thru-output, and supposedly pro-studio quality pure and flat sound) but it is US$1,000. I did decide I wanted it before I looked at the price, though. Honest!
