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In the Thread: Shall quality-price be reversed?
Post Subject: Shall quality-price be reversed?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/27/2014
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Ok, this article is about good thing in audio – the price. Yes, ironically nthere is ONE aspect of audio when price works very nicely.
  
During the last few years a lot of publicity in media was spent to the recent Stradivarius revelation. Search and you’ll find, it is literally everywhere. The nucleus of the revelation that a group of researcher conducted a few rounds of experiments where players were blindly played and compare expensive vintage Strads and better contemporary instruments and to everyone surprise the contemporary instruments always were preferred by players.

I personally do not invest a lot of trust into the research and the conclusions. However, I would like to note that the same satiation would be hardly possible in audio.  Audio has no equipment with Strad publicity but we have price.  I person who would listen $20K installation and $200K installation would not hear just different sound but the person would have different expectation to the heard.

Which bring me to the purpose of this article: can we “review” audio equipment by price undershooting and overshooting?  Let pretend that we hear Sound of playback and we do not informed what equipment or topology were responsible for it. Now instead of taking about sound we extend a monetary worth of this sound and then compare it with the actual price tag.

I very much assure you that if for a month the industry embraces the proposed reviewing method then everyone would be VERY surprised….

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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