Good point!
As long as you are sensible and realise why you’re buying it everyone is entitled to spend their money anyway they want. Anything else is fraud and can be dangerous. Self delusion is prevalent in society and it isn’t just audiophiles. Lots of kids around here buy themselves cheap...
Have you seen the post with the Bugatti kettle? A few years ago a Bugatti rally stopped in our village got talking to an owner and got invited to their evening stop and display. It was a worldwide event and there must have been close to £1 billions worth of cars there. Try telling any of...
It isn’t just audio what about watches? Some of them cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, all of my watches (10+). cost less than £100 and keep perfect time. There are other examples i’s consumerism gone mad. Regarding HiFi wouldn‘t buy anything that looked like it was made in someone’s...
Got a friend who worked for a well known charity giving help to people in distress. Many of the young people she saw were students, suddenly they’ve got their student loan and WOW it seems like a fortune out they go splashing the cash. A few months later nothing left, with rent and other bills...
Not completely fair listening sessions are carried out after the measurements, throwing light onto whether all the measurements affect the listening experience.
The sort of people who spend outrageous money on HiFi must be wealthy and exhibit compulsive disorder behaviour. Their personality trait may have served them well in business. There’s also quite often a pissing contest going on. Did some business with a West End of London dealer, the tales...