Hi Astewart8944
On the TuneLand forum we welcome the comments from those who have explored this for themselves. I think maybe one person who experimented with the system I mentioned on the forum went back to their old system. The rest have moved on from their high mass over priced system or are in the process. I don’t want my comment to take this thread off topic. My point is, many companies are closing the doors on this chapter of the audiophile movement as they find systems that are a fraction of the cost out performing High End Audio’s recommended components. Keep in mind this is nothing new. High End Audio started it’s decline in the mid 90’s and has been decreasing ever since.
another example
We went to a local used shop here in Las Vegas last year and did a real time comparison with many expensive amps (mainly) vs a couple of low mass low priced amplifiers. Every person in the space chose the $200.00 amplifier over the others. The comparison wasn’t even close. I took this a step further and brought the good sounding lower priced amp home with me and allowed listeners to bring their amps to compare, the most expensive being $35,000.00 mono blocks. The listening I opened up to the public for an entire year using 6 of my listening rooms, including one of my Tunable Reference Rooms. One of the listeners that was converted, then placed his amp here on Audiogon for a very low price. A day or two later the amp company itself bought the amp back so they wouldn’t get questioned on their sound. These amplifiers got beat up by several companies’ entry level products. I try not to name names as to not hurt peoples businesses or reputations, but I haven’t been shy about naming the products who cleaned house in these demos. As I said their listed on the TuneLand forum.