Well,
I've been doing this a long time, and I do like "stuff" and gear, especially audio stuff....so its a pleasure to build, buy and test stuff....for a long time I could only read someone else's reviews and hope they were accurate and honest.
The old adage if its costs more, it has to be better and if it measures better it has to be better.....
Well over the years these two things just dont always add up to an exact accurate answer.
What I have learned reading thousands of reviews and thousands of posts on other websites is that there are so many experts and folks that think they are experts that spend many, many hours, thousands of posts and bloviate with glittering adjectives about how one item is better or worse than another.
This includes me as well, but its really gotten much simpler for me at my age and experience.
There are lots of gear out there that works very well at $99 and at $999 +.
But if you think that the $999 item is going to be sonically better than the $99 one all the time, I think your wrong...IMO.
So why would you spend more if less can deliver about the same sonic experience?
Well, just because you can, and most often the more costly item has more bells and whistles that might be important to you.
So it all depends on what you want out of the hobby or pastime and in many of our cases what we can afford.
IMO the perfectly measuring amp down to .0000XXX will work very well, but will it outshine the $99 well designed amp sonically....only having the two
side by side and doing an honest AB comparison will show YOU what if any the sonic differences are.
So there is more to just the cost....for alot of us.
Life is good!!
Alex
