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Originally Posted by Pat Pending
So......
I've met some of these audiophools, (the ones that believe the real bovine scat, and are prepared to pay, say £70 for a fuse with gold plate end caps), the question begs.....
......How do they make their money? ...
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You might be surprised at the range of backgrounds. To be fair most of the audiophiles I've met are not at the more extreme end. Many of them spend a lot on kit though - thousands (sometimes many thousands) on a record deck, or a custom-made RIAA phono stage, or (in particular) exotic speakers. Some have tried very expensive cables. Quite a few have heard no difference and traded them in (there's a very vigorous second-hand market) for ones costing a few tens of pounds. Thousands might seem like a lot. But I've heard of holidays costing that much and they only last a fortnight, not decades.
At one recent weekend get-together we had a couple of hi-fi traders (they weren't selling anything there), a builder, a health service consultant (high-level management, not medical), a property maintenance chap, a construction project manager, a defence industry engineer, several IT specialists of one sort or another, a retired mechanical engineer (metalworking), a very senior chap from the London fashion industry (he's both a designer and also a very proficient tailor) and a chap who refurbishes machine tools. The retired owner of a hardware shop also stopped by. We'd hoped for a university economics professor but he had to cry off poorly at the last minute.
Cheers,
GJ