McIntosh quite a few years ago went around the country to dispel a lot of this BS. Notice no major manufacturers have done that since… even PS Audio sells a bunch of snake oil type crap. To each his own and if you don’t do some independent research, then I suppose it’s your money being wasted...
This site is the ultimate in cherry popping. Then again, the last time I took any audio rag seriously was way back when Absolute sound was run by HP. Nowadays these reviewers are mostly cable / interconnect pimps. How we went from “lamp cord” to $10,000 .5 meter wire is still both amusing and...
Imo, storage is now a relatively cheap commodity. I store all my music on 2 1tb ssd drives in lossless formats. Why? Because I can and I don’t need/want/care about the actual or perceived loss in quality using a compressed or lossy format. This ain’t the 80’s….
Not too long ago, there was a news report of a young guy who died using bolt cutters chopping into a still active power line. That was the end of his criminality / life.
I’m glad I bought mine at a very significant discount from a recording studio that closed…. Wow, I’m surprised after reading the test results.
Then a quote from long ago came back to me. “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
Umm hmmm………..
When I first got into music, speaker connections were with a screw and the gauge of wire was quite small. I’ve chosen to upgrade the BP’s on my speakers not for any Reason other then I appreciate good design and quality.