Rant 4: $20 vs $10,000
So, this is a comparison between a $10k set (shanling m9plus + pwaudio first times shielding + AK EE odyssey) and a $20 chu 2 run straight out of my laptop (lg gram 2022).
I'm not going to go into details, because obviously the $10k set is going to be better at everything.
However, the question I wanted to answer was, just how much better it is?
Well, on a scale of 0-10, where 0 is hearing nothing and 10 is sitting right in front of live music, I would rate the 10k combo as a 6.5, whereas I would rate the chu 2 as a 3.
So yeah, according to this scale, 500x the money buys you about twice the sound.
Law of diminishing returns, as they say.
If you are wondering, in my scale, I would put a good susvara chain at a 7.5, and focal grande utopia speakers run by uniti nova as a 8.5.
There was one westminster speaker chain (at least 6-figures) that I heard which I would rate at 9-9.5.
Man, that one was great. I would have been fooled if someone told me there was a violinist sitting insider the speakers lol.