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In Reply to: More appropriate question would be.... posted by Tony Montana on June 6, 2005 at 21:10:50:
Hi.Guys, long time not talked to.
One should not gauge the worthiness of anything with its material cost. Just like the religious spend their valuable time, be it leisure time or even worktime, devoting to their faith. To non-religious, they are wasting their useful time. But are they really ?
Likewise for any audio gears. For tube DIYers, how can a WE300B power tube cost so many times more than a Chinese or Czech make. Does WE300B justify its high price?
To me, YES, absolutely as I can hear the definite sonic difference though their specs are the same. But for those who can't hear the difference or reluctant to admit the worth of the difference, they would say WE is snake oil !
Like if someone tells me a burger take-out is as good as an Italian fine dine. I'd say nay. I definitely go for fine dine whenever I can afford one.
But who cares what? It all boils down its worthiness which varies from person to person like sonics.
If one finds a pair of $10 RadioShack grade interconnects work with one's rig, go for it. But, please don't, repeat, don't take on other's preference of exotic cables & question about its worthiness vs its price. To me, it is some nutshell behaviour.
I fully agree with Steve said. Worthiness is priceless. It can cost
$650 a crack but could worth nothing to someone who can't appreciate its sonic quality.Take my own experience a couple years back in an audition of my DIY non-reactive linestage & a $3,000 tube linestage custom-built by some engineer of a brandname tube-only amps maker, driving a pair of 32 (power tube) SET mononblock+ Lowther PM6 in cabinets built to Lowther specs.
Its owner, an audiophile friend with his audition panel jointly agreed my humble cheapie DIY passive linestage blew away the $3,000 active linestage (heavy-duty built like a battership!). On the spot, he offeredd me $3,000 to build one for him while he requested to keep
the demo unit pending I deliver the new one he ordered.Should I turn him down by telling him it didn't cost me 1/3 to build it? NO, simply because worthiness gets no market price.
We believe in listening, not in measuring.
Good listening
cheap-Jack
June 8, 20005.
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- ..because worthiness is priceless. (long text) - cheap-Jack 13:18:12 06/08/05 (0)
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