@abracher9 being OP, hope you don't mind the OT. If not, we'll branch it off as a separate thread.
Thats true. Several times I have heard budget equipment sound wonderful in showrooms, only to sound crappy at home. The solution is not to upgrade equipment but to first get the room in a condition to bring out the best in any equipment. This is also the reason why I am not going after upgrades.This is really nice discussion going on.
Just adding my 10 cents.
Improving output quality of any audio equipment beyond certain level is really tough job and it really needs lot of investment in R & D and compoenent cost to get that. That's why they charge you 5x (as someone said there is no liner relationship here).
Sometimes it is better investing efforts in finding what works better with what, than just adding up your budget expecting better sound quality.
My personal experience says that some times same setup sounds out of the world to me and some other time I find its shortcomings.
Hence I convince myself that this is just state of my mind at that time and postpone my upgrade plans.
And that's the reason that I'm now trying to match room acoustics with aesthetics, and find a balance!Thats true. Several times I have heard budget equipment sound wonderful in showrooms, only to sound crappy at home. The solution is not to upgrade equipment but to first get the room in a condition to bring out the best in any equipment. This is also the reason why I am not going after upgrades.
And I have so limited knowledge, how to take advantage of room acoustic...And that's the reason that I'm now trying to match room acoustics with aesthetics, and find a balance!
Many threads in this forum on the subject. In my opinion, do what you can in your home - most of us don't have dedicated music listening rooms.And I have so limited knowledge, how to take advantage of room acoustic...
Apparently SQ v/s equipment price curve also follows logarithmic scaleFor those who like Economics, there is a Law called "Law of Diminishing marginal utility" It goes around the lines of as you go up in usage, every unit of increase reduces in value