Audio Reference Studios – Whats the Point?
High end audio can sometimes be hard to justify. Friends, mates, and business associates will question the cost/benefit ratio of such a large expenditure. But a real enthusiast, someone who can tell analog audio on vinyl from digital audio just by listening, doesn’t need justification. A true enthusiast requires exceptional sound and is willing to devote the necessary funds to attaining it. An audio reference studio is the best tool the discriminating listener can employ toward this goal. The sort of excellence that the genuine enthusiast is seeking cannot be measured or determined in the showroom of a retail shop. Of course they all have special glassed-in listening rooms that pretend to offer a carefully tailored listening experience. The fact is that they are glassed-in so that poseurs can be seen listening to the expensive goods. And the tailoring of the listening experience is aimed at selling whichever items return the highest margin. No, for the purpose of choosing the best equi
