1. Home
  2. best-of
  3. 1055794781

Where do you draw the line???

There are many interesting threads here about innumerable topics where people share many different opinions. If the truth be known I think many of us are still open to suggestion or opposing points of view regarding most things, but there must be some issues about which we are unwilling to budge.

In your own mind what is the concession you are unwilling to make?

For example; many people feel tubes are superior to solid state equipment. I have owned tube gear, and have several friends who I respect that still own tube gear, but I will not concede that solid state equipment is inferior to tubes.

Another concession I cannot make is the superiority of CDs to vinyl. I have a good CDP and have listened to better than my own, and in my experience LPs still are the hands-down winner for sound quality.

I have and like Krell equipment, and have been taken to task because of it. I'm still not selling it to buy another brand.

The question is: Regardless of the opinion of others what views or opinions are you unwilling to change???

Lets not fight! This is supposed to be fun!!!
nrchy
twl
3,251 posts
 
Believe me, if I had $30k available for audio, I'd sure be able to spend it in a hurry! I didn't stop at $10k, oh alright, now it's $13k, because I wanted to. I did it because I ran out of money. Walker Proscenium and Aesthetix IO and Loth-X Bards are calling me, like a siren song.

Anybody got a spare $65k they don't know what to do with?
newbee
4,093 posts
 
Slappy - good comments, pretty much on the mark I think. Maxxc's comments effectively define his mind set and to my way of thinking make him sound like a jealous "have not" who has insufficent experience to make any judgments of value of interest to anyone but himself.
slappy
903 posts
 
Well i gotta agree with you there TWL.

I sure wouldnt mind a larger budget either.

all in due time... got to take care of the important things before i can get new toys.
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Somewhere up there Nrchy has the idea that I said I won't buy LPs with the RIAA curve???
I did not say that.
I said I hate the RIAA (and assume anyone would know it is because of thier stand and lawsuits on downloading music.
The RIAA curve has nothing to do with the current RIAA organization other than as history.
I ain't buying CDs... new CDs...
As for the rest of the argument: It appears similar to certain arguments, such as to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin???
nrchy's avatar
nrchy OP
2,111 posts
 
Elizabeth, I obviously did misunderstand your comments about the RIAA curve and LP purchases. Sorry! I'm not sure anymore where I got the idea, perhaps I'm more delusional than I thought.

Someday I'm gonna pull my Victory along-side Tom's BMW and listen to those Lothar's. I hope he's not home when I do it. I don't want to get shot!!!

It is not my intention to say that there are no good "budget" products out there, but as TWL clarified, as a generalization better gear costs more. I'm still not sure that my system sounds better than TWL's though.

Everybody likes different gear and different sound, that doesn't make the other person wrong (unless of course, they disagree with me). :^)

The last question Elizabeth asks though is a very improtant one, but maybe not one to be dealt with on AudiogoN!
More to discover