In Reply to: Assembling a Good Audio System – black art or not? posted by John C. - Aussie on March 1, 2006 at 19:08:28:
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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Follow Ups
- The 'black art' component can be reduced to any level you please - Al Sekela 09:10:50 03/02/06 (16)
- Great Al now that we know who you don't like what about those that you do? - Don T 09:59:01 03/03/06 (11)
- Your comment on dealers... - Al Sekela 16:28:15 03/03/06 (3)
- You've got to be kidding me! - Don T 16:43:24 03/03/06 (2)
- "few dealers have any clue to what I like" - Al Sekela 17:15:36 03/03/06 (1)
- It say that I am hard to please, particular and discriminating when it comes to audio purchases. - Don T 22:48:27 03/03/06 (0)
- Well, isn't that precious? - Dave Pogue 11:46:28 03/03/06 (6)
- A good post? At it's best it's half assed. - Don T 16:33:24 03/03/06 (5)
- "...give those who spend freely a pass..." - Al Sekela 17:20:49 03/03/06 (3)
- Re: "...give those who spend freely a pass..." - Don T 11:44:38 03/04/06 (2)
- Do we have to explain EVERYTHING to you? - Al Sekela 11:24:41 03/05/06 (1)
- On the contrary.... - Don T 14:13:19 03/05/06 (0)
- I'm sure you'll be glad to provide the other half (nt) - Dave Pogue 16:40:55 03/03/06 (0)
- Re: Thanks Al (nt) - Ralph 08:20:09 03/03/06 (0)
- Way cool of you, and pretty darn concise too! nt - scruffy_ 15:35:38 03/02/06 (0)
- Wow! - Dave Pogue 14:30:03 03/02/06 (0)