This is merely for discussion.
So there's this proverb "The poor man always pays twice"
I've somehow never seen, nor read, nor heard this saying until today. And I love it, because I think it perfectly sums up my journey in audio. This isn't to say that i consider myself to be poor. I figure I'm middle class and since I am not raising kids, unless my Scottish Terrier or artist-wife count, and so I have some disposable income. BUT, for much of my journey I spent like a poor person, thinking (or being told) that i would get rich-man results. I never did.
The poor man always pays twice. Once for the score. And again for the thing he wanted in the first place, because the score either didn't live up to the hype, it broke, or proved to be just as expensive in the long run as the better thing ended up being.
I certainly paid twice. Once for my vast collection of giant killers. And again for the actual giants. Kill the the giant-killers didn't. Except for themselves, sometimes.
Just my opinion but I wish there was more of a popular opinion in audio that said to save money, don't buy on what's cheapest but instead get exactly what you want in the first place, and stop playing the score game because nobody who matters in your listening-life is going to be impressed anyway. I know I played the score game for the better part of a decade and man do I wish I have even a fraction of the money back that I wasted on that pile of mediocrity...money that I would rather have invested in really good stuff, even if it meant trading 10 things for 1.
So there's this proverb "The poor man always pays twice"
I've somehow never seen, nor read, nor heard this saying until today. And I love it, because I think it perfectly sums up my journey in audio. This isn't to say that i consider myself to be poor. I figure I'm middle class and since I am not raising kids, unless my Scottish Terrier or artist-wife count, and so I have some disposable income. BUT, for much of my journey I spent like a poor person, thinking (or being told) that i would get rich-man results. I never did.
The poor man always pays twice. Once for the score. And again for the thing he wanted in the first place, because the score either didn't live up to the hype, it broke, or proved to be just as expensive in the long run as the better thing ended up being.
I certainly paid twice. Once for my vast collection of giant killers. And again for the actual giants. Kill the the giant-killers didn't. Except for themselves, sometimes.
Just my opinion but I wish there was more of a popular opinion in audio that said to save money, don't buy on what's cheapest but instead get exactly what you want in the first place, and stop playing the score game because nobody who matters in your listening-life is going to be impressed anyway. I know I played the score game for the better part of a decade and man do I wish I have even a fraction of the money back that I wasted on that pile of mediocrity...money that I would rather have invested in really good stuff, even if it meant trading 10 things for 1.