...Also, please refresh your understanding of the words "Audiophile" and "Reference"....
Ranjeet
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Audiophiles are people who seek to listen to music at a level of quality as close to the original performance as possible. They use high-fidelity components to try and attain these goals."
"Audiophile values may be applied at all stages of music reproduction: the initial audio recording, the production process, and the playback, which is usually in a home setting. High-end audio refers to expensive, high-quality, or esoteric products and practices used in the reproduction of music. Electronic gear used by audiophiles is typically sold at specialist shops. Prices range from not much more than mass market electronics to astronomical heights: high-end audio systems can easily cost more than a new automobile and in extreme cases can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most of this gear is produced by companies that specialize in high-end gear, although some also produce equipment used by audio professionals such as by recording studios."
"The hobbyist will usually have great interest in the gear used, and may travel to listen to equipment not available in his own city, and spend hours in making minor changes to his gear and comparing the results. Hi-fi ownership and upgrading is often a hobby in its own right, where the pursuit of sound fidelity seems to be almost completely disassociated from the love of music. These "audiophiles" are solely into the gear. The music is just considered incidental or a means of "testing" equipment. Some have satirized this as fastidiousness."
Source:
Audiophile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reference is something the company believes is the paramount of their technological innovations that could serve as a reference for the rest of their components or line of products. Now, does this necessary mean that this "reference product" should be considered as a reference material in comparison to other companies?? products? - I don??t think so! If it helps, my HiFi is supposedly from the reference range of Marantz, do I consider that to be the best reference material in the world against the absolute best out there, No I don??t. It would be stupid and extremely ignorant of me to even think like that. But do Marantz consider this as reference grade in their line up of products, apparently they do- and I believe they have all the rights to do that.
Hope this helps as a refresher in understanding, just in case if we are lost! - now is it time for me to choose my weapons?!
