Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2174435)

Have you ever watched the Gene DellaSala videos on Audioholics.com? I don't understand half of what he says, but I like the videos. I don't think he is a big fan of high priced cables.

Originally Posted by defrey12 (Post 2174535)

Why are there $3000 headphones? Yes, I know…I can answer my own question on that one. It’s called marketing. Maybe for professional-grade stage monitors, but for “normal” people a pair of $150 bluetooth Bose will do the trick and you won’t be able to tell the difference. That’s what use and I once stood in stage. WASTE of $$$ for the average Joe.

Originally Posted by dstinchcomb2@yahoo.com (Post 2174268)

… Stick with your Bose and leave the finer things to those who are able to appreciate them.

Originally Posted by villagetinker (Post 2174598)

I wish I had the hearing to appreciate some of the audio systems being described, but I have test results from my audiologist that show I would probably never hear any difference (Confirmed by my wife!!). I my younger days I had Crown and Macintosh equipment and various speakers in an acoustically dead room so I could really hear the difference. Now I can tell the music is on, but I doubt I could tell the difference between a very high-end sound system and an average system.

Originally Posted by rsmurano (Post 2174586)

Bose sucks, not worth the price they cost. $3000 isn’t that much to spend on headphones, I have audio cables that are 8’ long that cost more than that. There are some speaker cables that are over $30,000 a pair, and if you sp nd $800,000 on speakers, you will want these better cables.
Go out and listen to a nice system. Very nice 2 channel stereo systems can cost $1M-$2M, I’ve heard them.
In bigger cities, we have audiophile clubs that get together regularly to listen to each others systems.

Originally Posted by dstinchcomb2@yahoo.com (Post 2174713)

Are there any audiophile clubs in The Villages? I'd love to attend.

Originally Posted by rsmurano (Post 2174696)

You would be amazed how much difference you would hear. I took a couple friends to the biggest audio show. In Las Vegas and they initially thought they couldn’t hear the difference between a Bose and a better system. They were amazed at the difference. Some of the better speakers go up to 40khz which is way above a humans hearing capacity, but you will feel this. Better audio equipment gives you a great soundstage, more spac between each instrument, and feeling like you are their experience, I hear things in the recording that you won’t in a Bose system. When I play Diana Krall, my system places her right in the middle and many feet back from the speakers.

Originally Posted by rsmurano (Post 2174586)

Bose sucks, not worth the price they cost.

Originally Posted by defrey12 (Post 2174535)

...for “normal” people a pair of $150 bluetooth Bose will do the trick and you won’t be able to tell the difference.

Originally Posted by JerryLBell (Post 2175405)

Back in the day when I sold audio equipment (including Bose speakers) we had two sayings regarding Bose:

• "Friends don't let friends buy Bose."
• "No highs? No lows? Must be Bose."

You may be right. Most of my friends here can't tell the difference between lossy, low-resolution MP3 files and lossless, high-resolution SACD discs, between a $100 Insignia soundbar and a half-way decent surround speaker system costing $10,000 or more, or between standard definition and high definition (much less 4K HDR) video. That doesn't mean that those of us fortunate to still have decent hearing and vision can't tell or appreciate the difference.

I'd love to hear some of these very pricey headphones and maybe even own them. But I've got champagne tastes and a beer budget. I'll stick with my Sennheiser HD599 headphones powered by either my Denon DAC/headphone amplifier or my Hyby R5 Gen 2 portable audio player, both playing 24-bit, 96 kHz - 192 kHz FLAC files or DSD64 files. They ain't exactly super high-end, but they ain't half-bad neither!