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The 'black art' component can be reduced to any level you please

with sufficient effort. Effort is the combination of experience, knowledge, and money applied to the problem (labor, brains, and capital in a business context). To a limited extent, these are fungible, so that the kleptocrat with no time to spend studying the subject can buy very expensive components and hire the expert to assemble them, while the poor but diligent student can scrounge and hack together something very cheap that delivers equally satisfactory sound.

The tradeoffs are not linear, though. It is much easier to get good sound with a reasonable balance of these inputs than it is to use one of them alone. I believe this fact explains the rancor behind many of the inmates' judgemental posts. There is a group of ignorami who bitch about the prices of refined components. There is another, overlapping, group of engineer wannabees that thinks every tweak is snake-oil. None of these benighted souls has satisfactory sound, but they seek to blame a corrupt marketplace rather than their own ignorance, and abuse this forum to find mutual support.


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