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Buy whatever you like?

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In Reply to: RE: The TRUTH Please!!! Brand Name or Factory-Direct? posted by jr314 on May 30, 2007 at 23:02:33

Audiophile 101 requires you buy what you like. And no matter what it is you'll probably end up proclaiming it as God's gift to audiophilia.

Unless you listen to a whole bunch of stuff you won't have a clue, and if you're like many audiophiles that won't for an instant keep you from singing praises. Well you bought it so you've got every right.

The vintage and DIY'ers really put it in a nutshell - buy whatever it is that you can get for cheap that you can associate the highest value to.

Or you can go the other route - spend as much money as you can and proclaim the rest of the world sucks as revealled to you by the bad sound coming out of your rig.

Remember if it sounds good playing back all of your music it is good and if it sounds better playing back all of your music then it is better. Comments like "sounds like 10,000 bucks" really freak me out - most systems regardless of price don't even sound good to me regardless of price. Spend $600 to get sound competitive with a $3,000 component? Big Fing deal - what $3,000 component are they talking about? I'd rather spend $600 and get the right $600 component for my system than something that sounds like the wrong $3,000 component for my system.

The more equipment you try the better off you're going to be - doesn't matter if it's used, vintage, new, mail order, manufacturer direct, etc.

Give me rhythm or give me death!

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