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Re: FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK, An awdeophile,audiophile,audiofool or just ABOUT TO ROCK
Later I worked for a company whose chip was used in the most widely praised Blu ray player. Interestingly the Blu-ray player is a much better CD/SACD player than a BD player. Though I am pretty sure if you ask a reviewer to rate this player when it was released with a Esoteric/Wadia etc, they will pick the latter as better performer though the BD player has the lowest distortion ever measured for an optical transport.
Recently I had an opportunity to audition Wilson Audio Polaris. It sounded quite terrible to my ear compared to Sonus Faber Guarneri in the same environment. The price differential between the speakers were more than my total system cost and neither of them were "cheap". So end of the day, no I don't believe a more expensive product sounds/looks better than a well engineered lesser priced alternative. It is the engineering that decides the performance and rarely the price.
I will digress here. It is not always you get what you pay for. I used to work for a company that had won three technical Emmy. One of the Emmy belonged to the group that I was one of the designer before I went to graduate school. The MSRP of the product we designed used to be around $40-50K. Couple of years later due to better technology we were able to convert these multi-FPGA boards to $20 ICs. The final product used to sell for $300. Albeit there were few designs which were priced around $4-5K. Other than better chassis, the electrical designs were identical in both cases. Still I have seen reviews in professional AV magazines which used to proclaim the superiority of the higher priced products and even lament the fact these designs don't come close to the $40K products.Absolutely not.
Apart from the occasional miracle product that gives great results at a low price, there can be no doubt that, at least as far as major components are concerned, we get what we pay for.
Nobody needs to be an "audiophile" to go wow at their favourite music played on amazing speakers through high-end components. They don't even need to be told the price first. Nor do they need to know, even, which end is high or low (or middle!) or any of the audiophile language.
Later I worked for a company whose chip was used in the most widely praised Blu ray player. Interestingly the Blu-ray player is a much better CD/SACD player than a BD player. Though I am pretty sure if you ask a reviewer to rate this player when it was released with a Esoteric/Wadia etc, they will pick the latter as better performer though the BD player has the lowest distortion ever measured for an optical transport.
Recently I had an opportunity to audition Wilson Audio Polaris. It sounded quite terrible to my ear compared to Sonus Faber Guarneri in the same environment. The price differential between the speakers were more than my total system cost and neither of them were "cheap". So end of the day, no I don't believe a more expensive product sounds/looks better than a well engineered lesser priced alternative. It is the engineering that decides the performance and rarely the price.