(25-Feb-2016, 12:37)Hifi_swlon Wrote: Be keen to hear what others think….
Three ideas, which could help each of us reach an appropriate answer to your interesting question:
- in the Audiophile hobby, we are not aiming at any improvement which has any objective value, but we are in a search for aesthetic perfection ; aesthetics has no limit whatsoever...
- the search for aesthetic perfection in 'Audiophilie' is a recurring process : the better you listen, and the better you discern what you expect, the more you expect from your system...
- in human activities which are in relation to arts, there is no limitation of financial means ; there will always be people who have enough money to ask for more, be it in paying for the best painters or the best architects to give pride as it happened during renaissance, or to build the finest cars, or the finest audio systems, for each and everyone of us feel happy with the what we can buy.
So it does not have anything to do like researching the best computer to break-out the human genome and help find treatment for 'orphan' diseases. It's just researching the most appropriate way to restitute sounds, to a variety of people who do not share the same expectations, the same aesthetic quest, and who do not have the same amounts of money to spend...
So, coming back on earth, we have the right not to be fooled by people who use our quest for audiophile perfection to ruin us selling us overpriced equipment. But we have the duty to respect each of us' desire to feel unique having found the system which suits the best his/her audiophile quest...
