Originally Posted by jbloudg20
Although I have yet to spend some serious money on a pen, there is somehting fundamentally wrong with what you are saying.
Why are you on Head-Fi? 'anything more than the $20 KSC75, which has pretty good quality, is a bit stupid.'
You have your hobby, we have ours. Leave it be.
The problem is, he's arguing from a slightly naive or should I say different point of view. Putting money into a fountain pen won't increase the usability and performance of a fountain pen. The nib, feed and filling mechanism can only be so good, at which point the extra $$$ goes into the materials, fabrication of the body, cap, engravings, exclusivitiy, rarity and other superficial/aesthetic characteristics. So you end up buying a piece of art (or stick of precious metal if it doesn't look very nice
) and not an increasingly functional pen (no automatic spell checking, voice control/recognition scribing, dynamically adaptable nib size/shape
). So from a functional point of view, your extra $$$ has been spent in vain.
When you spend money on headphones, you get sound. If you spend more money on headphones, you get better sound and sometimes better aesthetics/build. If you spend an astronomical amount (say $6k) on a pair of headphones, you get an eargasmic sound whereas the looks might not do them justice. From a pen collector/user's view, you're wasting your money! Why the heck spend so much money on sound when I don't give a crap about it anyway? All I want is a headphone that makes a sound and looks gorgeous! Likewise, we can draw parallels with your (colonelkernel8) comments on a pen collector/user: Why the heck spend so much money on aesthetic and rarity when I don't give a crap about it anyway? All I want is a pen that writes!
I hope you get the drift...
