Why Luxury Goods & Audio are strange bedfellow's

[mhardy6647]

BTW, is it all still working?, it looks awesome

Most of it -- I've never had the nerve to try the CA-2010, which was an "as is" purchase. While reputed to work, its aura troubled me enough to demur. The price was very attractive, so I still have no qualms about having made the "investment".
Everything else there works -- the three Sherwood vacuum tube components included. They are all three superb; particularly the tuners. I used the Sherwood in the basement for years our previous house, but there's really no - ahem - use case for it here, so it's a shelf queen monarch in the current state of affairs.

 

[Talisman]

I like beautiful things but I have no interest in luxury things, these things can coincide but they are not necessarily synonymous.
I love the Shelby cobra 427, I think it is a work of art, but I could never afford it, but I find almost all Bentleys hideous and I would have no pleasure in owning one.
The same goes for hifi, the idea of buying something just because it is luxury I find abhorrent, for example I really like the Mission Lx2, they are speakers costing a few hundred euros that I find elegant and beautiful, then there are speakers like the B&W Nautilus that I would not put in my living room even if I were paid to do so.
I appreciate things that I consider beautiful, or things that are beautiful but for functional reasons, I do not like things for which "being beautiful" is the only function, they are so stupid.... (personal opinion)

 

[AdrianusG]

I like beautiful things but I have no interest in luxury things, these things can coincide but they are not necessarily synonymous.
I love the Shelby cobra 427, I think it is a work of art, but I could never afford it, but I find almost all Bentleys hideous and I would have no pleasure in owning one.
The same goes for hifi, the idea of buying something just because it is luxury I find abhorrent, for example I really like the Mission Lx2, they are speakers costing a few hundred euros that I find elegant and beautiful, then there are speakers like the B&W Nautilus that I would not put in my living room even if I were paid to do so.
I appreciate things that I consider beautiful, or things that are beautiful but for functional reasons, I do not like things for which "being beautiful" is the only function, they are so stupid.... (personal opinion)

, I do not like things for which "being beautiful" is the only function, they are so stupid.... (personal opinion)

Hmm, a beautiful painting might be one of the exceptions here, but i see your point

 

[Multicore]

, I do not like things for which "being beautiful" is the only function, they are so stupid.... (personal opinion)

Hmm, a beautiful painting might be one of the exceptions here, but i see your point

What about music itself?

 

[A Cute Earring]

What about music itself?

…or art, or nature, or love, or peace?

 

[EJ3]

What about music itself?

That is a function that is not related to "being Beautiful" (at l least as I take it to mean. The choice of music may or may not be beautiful.
On the other side of the coin, the machining of the parts of my Doug Nash 5 speed (5th is NOT an overdrive) racing transmission surprised me by being 'beautiful to the eye & the touch' (to me, it's literally the equivalent of fine jewelry, anyone seeing it is amazed that it is the inside mechanisms of an automobile racing transmission).
So it's beautiful but that is not part of it's function. But the feel of it's function is also 'beautiful". Slick & smooth shifts (and it is strong beauty, as while only being rated for 450 pound feet of torque, it can operate with finesse against 800 pound feet of torque (I know because I have done it).
Being a Beautiful object can be the sole reason for somethings being. Which I don't particularly care for, although, choosing for decoration is it's own niche.
Or something can be beautiful and have a function. Which it may or may not do beautifully.
Or it cam function beautifully & not be beautiful.
I will take function over form every time. But, if the function is as good & it happens to be beautiful (and the price difference is not outrageous), I'll take the more beautiful one.