Boris, it seems that every time that you think a piece of audio gear is overpriced, it’s disqualified solely on cost, and most you have never heard. I’m sorry but you are like a broken record that repeats the same tired groove.
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That’s a much better criteria than “ooh, it’s expensive, must be good” kind of magical thinking that low-IQ audiophiles apply.
And you know that how? Oh, right, you don’t. Just like you don’t know anything about anything else either.
Shouldn’t you be used to people pointing fingers at you and laughing by now?
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How can you assume that all people who can afford expensive, or very expensive, audio have a low IQ? Considering it’s only audio, it’s hard to imagine what such people have besides audio, if they can afford cool “toys.”
Another thing is, if someone can afford expensive audio, they probably don’t have an IQ problem. We should be more concerned about people for whom spending, say, $5,000 on a streamer is a fortune.
That’s not the correlation. There is one, however, between low IQ and believing that more expensive audio gadget is better just by the virtue of being more expensive. Just like believing that the Earth is flat, that oil companies are hiding the secret of perpetual motion, or USB cables have a sound is also a sign of low IQ and militant ignorance.
Or maybe they do. There is little correlation, especially when you can get very rich by kicking a ball or shaking tits on a stage.
There’s a big difference between people spending $5000 (or $50,000) on a streamer because it actually does something they want it to do, and people who spend $5000 for one and only one reason – because it costs $5000 and not $500, even if the $500 one is quite provably superior. The latter group deserves if not pity (that depends on how charitable one is) but at least a) some education, if capable of learning, and b) being kept quiet because really we do not need any more stupidity in the world. There’s enough of that already.
But of course they can’t accept it precisely because they are ignorant (and low IQ) and are incapable of understanding the extent of their ignorance.
I understand that there are probably people who argue as you wrote, but we can’t generally assume that everyone who buys expensive audio products approaches their purchases this way and has an IQ problem. There are many people who buy certain equipment at certain prices for various reasons, and many of them actually buy consciously without having IQ problems.
(sigh) No, not everyone. If one buys an actually expensive (Burmester… hell, even Wadax; not some lower mid-range brand like Aurender or Rose) because it perfectly matches the style of their penthouse overlooking the Central Park, and they aren’t robbing their kids college fund, sure, there’s no problem there. They have some valid reason. Well, really, if you buy a Rose because you really like that screen (which is neat, and was pretty unique a few years ago) it’s fine, too. Screen is a perfectly good reason, other than the 160, Rose equipment does not have any major performance faults. It’s when people who quite obviously do not own a penthouse over Central Park and just as obviously know zilch about physics in general, acoustics in particular, and how digital audio works (like that guy who always goes “hey, I know what the Standard Model is! Do you know what the Standard Model is? Let me tell you about the Standard Model!” to anyone who does not tell him to go pound sand immediately), and would not hear any difference between a Rose and a Wiim (well, granted, mostly because there ain’t one) start blathering about their golden ears, resolving systems, and how they hear some veils lifting from the kitchen – that’s you clearly see someone with a low IQ. It takes quite a large degree of militant stupidity to actually boast that not only does one “hear” things that aren’t there but that one does not even want to bother to listen to things properly. After all, they had spent more money on it! They could not possibly be wrong!
It is rather entertaining though to see these clowns bragging about their golden (r)ears and resolving system and then find out that they are using tube amps, or are running everything through an extra cycle of external ADC/DAC, or are using speakers that do not reproduce half of the audible range…
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