Audiophily and audiofoolery notes

Disclaimer

There are many audiophiles that have preferences regardless over whether there is truth to it.

I'm not here to frustrate over them.

See Brandolini's law.

And the audiophiles are happy regardless of reality, because that's how confirmation bias works.

I have a little envy there.

This is only here to convince myself, not anyone else.

I do care about a halfway decent audio system, but I try to quantify what is probably the weakest link, to avoid throwing hundreds of hours and thousands of bucks at the wrong parts.

As far as I can tell,

there are a handful of things you can get for free just by knowing them,

after which can usefully spend a few hundred bucks before the largest issue becomes your room,

and maybe a few thousand before it's your head (positioning and such),

and then in your head (believing nonsense marketing, or inventing your own).

Beyond that point madness lies.

And well before that, you will find the slippiest technobabble since star trek TOS, except in utter earnesty, about real-world physics.

So this is definitely in an opinionated according-to-me page. Though I do try to do my research.

In my research I found a plethora of poop out there, so I am biased to be very critical stance by default - and to be fair, sometimes more than merited.

The true stuff will often take longer to get to me, and some ratings may rise over time as I understand the subtleties people are not very good at explaining.