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This is a normal post As in it's relatively easy to find equipment which is good enough for you ears, or in fact few magnitudes too good (as in accurate).
Conversely, it's relatively hard to convince people so who are heavily invested either emotionally or financially in gear acquisition.
 (I helped save b3ta! omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 15 Mar 2017, 14:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post YES!
There is no point in having ludicrously expensive equipment (pride, feeling clever/special, OCD apart) with typical hearing in an ordinary room. I'll not be surprised if the last thing an 'audiophile' tests are their ears.

Of course the music media/encoding is another argument...
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 15 Mar 2017, 19:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, the room is out of question with headphones. The medium is really non issue if recording (plain CD(1)) is decent or digital with decent DAC.
I still like tube amplifiers, as they are pretty cool, even if they do not make sense from hi-fidelity point
of view (they used to make a lot of sense with guitars though, now I'm not so sure with modern modelling).

(1) people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

That doesn't mean I don't like Audeze or Stax or something. That just means I think that Sennheiser HD650/600, DT880
etc (the yesterdays flagships) are already at the point of drastically reduced returns in regard to money investment.

The people who search for holy grail usually end up quite frustrated, rationalizing yet another strange exotic purchase,
while failing to appreciate that e.g. decent modern DACs are (should be) magnitudes more accurate than what you can
distinguish (blindly by ear, that is they are transparent). Of course the former are usually people who purposely buy
audio gear which is supposed to colour sound in some way or offset some perceived flaw, thus feeding their neverending
frustration.
 (I helped save b3ta! omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Wed 15 Mar 2017, 20:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Another factor is perception.
Or it might be the biggest factor. We get used to the sound we are used to hearing, filter and interpret it.
If you sincerely believe the sellers pitch it is more likely to sound better.
My comment about media was comparing say, 8 track, CD, vinyl, .mp3 and sampling rates for any digital format.
Cassettes were only for copying and emergencies.


TL;DR - Emperors new clothes.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 16 Mar 2017, 0:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, of course. The perception thing is huge.

(I helped save b3ta! omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Thu 16 Mar 2017, 0:30, , Reply)