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cosmopawt
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why does hifi equipment tend to be so massive, its annoying

my RECORD PLAYER is the smallest piece of hifi equipment aside from my headphones that i have. a RECORD PLAYER!!!!

my cd player is a massive box that i dont have enough space for my receiver is a massive box that i barely have enough space for my speakers are massive boxes that i barely have enough space for.

WHYYY

even the portable music players nowadays are massive!!! have you seen the fuckin fiio m17???? shits like a fuckin 1983 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X!!!!!!

"oooooh but the electrical interfetterence", then use proper shielding dummie!!! we solved electrical interference when we invented THE FERRITE RING and COPPER BRAIDS and ALUMINUM FOIL!!!!

oml!!!!!

pendell
@pendell

It's literally just snake oil sales tactics

If your CD player is built like it's designed to withstand nuclear armageddon, it's a lot easier to charge $2,000 for it, because people will implicitly be influenced to think there must be some good reason it's that overbuilt and costs that much. And once they've sunk that much money into it, they'll definitely make up those reasons for themselves.

The audiophile market of today is a crab bucket of people convincing each other to spend absurd amounts of money on crap that doesn't matter.

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cosmopawt
@cosmopawt

ikr, i feel like there's a lot of elitists on audiophile forums specifically because they want to justify their outrageous purchases. A good amp can only be so noiseless, a good dac can only be so good at what it does, a good record player can only be as good as the recording on the record is, so why not go with "good enough" if it doesn't get any better? There's a hard limit to a lot of equipment that audiophiles tend not to discuss. The only equipment i can "justify" a 2000 dollar purchase for is the actual drivers: headphones or speakers, since those actually do 95% of the work. Outside of the drivers, a 10,000 dollar setup is borderline no different than a 600 dollar setup, both reach those hard limits of "As good as it gets". There's also a reason there are people who still use equipment from the 80s and 90s, it's because audio tech reached that hard limit.

Idk, I'm just sick of people getting driven away from hobbies because the elitists tell them to invest thousands of dollars in it, I've seen this with figurine painting, i've seen it with audiophiles, i've seen it with sim racing, and i've seen it with pc gaming. It just gets tiring.

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