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Old 11th Oct 2017, 10:20 pm   #80
GrimJosef
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Default Re: Audiophoolery. 'Cable Break In' - I never knew that!

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Originally Posted by Lucien Nunes View Post
Not necessarily. There is a considerable aesthetic aspect to equipment that owes nothing to its claims of audio performance. You can legitimately and justifiably charge one or two orders of magnitude more for something that looks and lasts like fine jewellery, compared to an equivalently-performing functional item of zero aesthetic merit and modest durability.
This is true. But those features appeal to a different group of people. I was thinking of people whose pleasure comes from the sound they hear (in their heads, of course) but I didn't make that clear. They're the ones whose pleasure would be denied to them if their beliefs were convincingly debunked and/or ridiculed.

Then there's the group of people who pay way more than an item is worth in performance terms for yet another set of reasons - rarity and the pleasure of owning something old. There's nothing 'wrong' with us is there !

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GJ
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