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In Reply to: RE: TAS serves up another crock of cognitive dissonance. posted by regmac on March 19, 2008 at 14:24:34
Hey Regmac,
Gotta love the knee-jerk responses you're getting to what is a very valid point. As it happens, last night I was sitting inside my $30k turbo-charged Subaru Outback waiting for my daughter to come out of swim practice and I was thinking about all that $30k bought in the way of car and the thought popped into my head of the $16k pair of Bryston 28B SST amplifiers I reviewed a couple months ago. You look at the car and then you look at the amps and you can’t help but scratch your head.
I won’t go into why $16,000 can buy you a fairly sophisticated automobile today or it can buy you a pair of what happens to be a pair of extremely fine audio amplifiers. But I will say that to an awful lot of TAS readers, $16k probably is affordable. But like most such purchases, it will require one to assess his priorities. We're talking sacrifices. An awful lot of audiophiles drive used cars so that they can afford a killer system. It may not be comfortable and it could be a stretch, but I think $16k is indeed affordable… as in “doable”. And if in the writer's opinion they actually compare well to speakers costing multiples of that price, I guess I can understand the enthusiasm.
Now we can debate weather affordable translates into a smart purchase and a wise use of one’s resources but that's a whole nuther topic. :-)
Best,
JP
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