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- From: siim@waterloo.hp.com (Brad Siim)
- Subject: Re: 150 - 200 W. Amplifier
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:15:27 GMT
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- Tony Snyder (snydert@dmapub.dma.org) wrote:
- : : I am continually amazed at the witchcraft ethos among high-end audio
- : : enthusiasts, who spend thousands of dollars on expensive capacitors, circuit
- : : boards, speaker wire, etc., and then rationalize their expenditures by claiming
- : : to hear sound improvements which can't be measured or verified by any objective
- : : tests. Good design practice stipulates using the cheapest components and
- : : simplest circuits that will get the job done. Oddly, the high-end audio
- : : market seems driven by the reverse notion that one should spend the maximum
- : : money possible (e.g., on hundred dollar patch cords), for benefits that exist
- : : entirely in the mind of the purchaser. I guess the phenomenon is testimony to
- : : the power of advertising and the influence of techno-mumbo jumbo (quartz-locked
- : : this and digitally sampled that and linear phase non-inverting blah blah
- : : blah)on impressionable minds.
- :
- : You evidently are flying pretty high on some sort of an electrical
- : engineering degree or something. Your educators failed you by not
- : covering such important technological topics such as Bragging Rights
- : and Cognitive Dissonance. Such a shame.
-
- I have to agree with the first message that there is a fair bit of
- hype relating to marginal/very marginal improvements in sound quality
- due to the difference between good equipment and great equipment. By
- equipment I am refering to $15 patch cords verses $150 patch cords,
- $1200 amps vs $6000 amps etc. Do $5000 dollar tube amps sound that much
- better than $1000 dollar bipolar/FET amps? Or is the price being
- driven by the 'law of supply and demand' and our famous 'kinked Demand curve'?
- Charge what the market will bare??
-
- Brad Siim
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