Super High-End

[AcuDefTechGuy]

And given your very ordinary looking speakers, it seems very odd coming from you. Clearly, you have a significant amount of money invested in your gear, so you could have afforded something that looks more unusual if you had really wanted it.

I don't think I can afford the MBL even in my next two lives.

As long as I think the speakers sound great and look elegant, I'm fine.

 

[Pyrrho]

I don't think I can afford the MBL even in my next two lives.

As long as I think the speakers sound great and look elegant, I'm fine.

They have less expensive models than the one referred to above (which is, I believe, their most expensive), and there are other brands that make less expensive unusual looking speakers. What I am saying is, if you wanted unusual looking speakers, you could have unusual looking speakers.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

They have less expensive models than the one referred to above (which is, I believe, their most expensive), and there are other brands that make less expensive unusual looking speakers. What I am saying is, if you wanted unusual looking speakers, you could have unusual looking speakers.

True...

The trick is finding some that sounds GREAT at the same time!

 

[GlocksRock]

Have you ever listened to Vienna Acoustics speakers?

http://www.viennaacoustics.at/

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Have you ever listened to Vienna Acoustics speakers?

http://www.viennaacoustics.at/

No, but I would like to.

Although, AJ will say it's just another direct-radiating box speaker.

I think if the T3 & Salon2 direct-radiators don't pan out, I won't touch another direct-radiating box speaker.

 

[ichigo]

I highly doubt those electronics gear cost any more than a few hundred (if even) to manufacture.

 

[3db]

Things like that have been done, where someone claims to switch out things, but do not make any changes (so they listen to exactly the same thing twice), and people "hear" the "difference", with the preconceived preferred item naturally sounding "better" when they are told it is playing.

It is funny how so many people imagine themselves to not have human limitations, claiming to have superhuman hearing. If someone claims to be able to jump over a tall building, no one takes that seriously, but when the audio equivalent is claimed, many readily believe.

Humans are subject to the power of suggestion and the placebo effect, and their hearing is not as good as measuring equipment for detecting actual differences, but many imagine that they are supermen, not subject to the limitations of reality.

The moral to the story is to educate yourself, and use your brain, not just your "ears", to make decisions. It will save you money, and you are likely to get better sound and more enjoyment from your gear as well.

No way... I don't believe you .. What was the name of that rebadged Oppo brand selling for 5K?

 

[3db]

Is your house large enough for all that?

Sshhhhh. I'l just place it under a tarp in my backyard and raise the property valueby just having it there.

 

[MatthewB.]

Wonder how that 1.2 mil 7.2 sound system would sound in the large moving box I would be living in. I mean i would have the cutout flap window (held tight by tape) and everything.

Seriously if I saw anyone buying that system, i would have to beyatch slap them for being so foolish with their money and spending it this way. Last week I was watching TMZ (my bible) and they had a story where Kim Kardashian (sp) had gone over a speed bump too fast on her bently and cracked the plastic ground effect cowling under her bumper. Cost to repair 25,000 Want i want to know is what she has done in her life that makes her worthy of driving a car that costs so much that a piece of plastic under the bumper costs more than my entire jeep.

Saw Paris Hilton the other day (alos on TMZ) spraying five bottles of champagne into an audience at a club. Cost for the five bottles 50,000 I thought of her grandfather starting up that Hilton Hotel chain with a 1,000 loan back in the day and how he would respond to that if he were alive.

 

[Pyrrho]

Wonder how that 1.2 mil 7.2 sound system would sound in the large moving box I would be living in. I mean i would have the cutout flap window (held tight by tape) and everything.

Seriously if I saw anyone buying that system, i would have to beyatch slap them for being so foolish with their money and spending it this way. Last week I was watching TMZ (my bible) and they had a story where Kim Kardashian (sp) had gone over a speed bump too fast on her bently and cracked the plastic ground effect cowling under her bumper. Cost to repair 25,000 Want i want to know is what she has done in her life that makes her worthy of driving a car that costs so much that a piece of plastic under the bumper costs more than my entire jeep.

Saw Paris Hilton the other day (alos on TMZ) spraying five bottles of champagne into an audience at a club. Cost for the five bottles 50,000 I thought of her grandfather starting up that Hilton Hotel chain with a 1,000 loan back in the day and how he would respond to that if he were alive.

It would serve him right to know about it, as that is the real fruit of his labor.