[LAU] price vs. sound - was - What is the best MP3 encoder?

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 04/02/2013 04:15 PM, Daniel Worth wrote:
>
>     I actually like the sound of the guitars I have made in Quebec
>     that are
>     sub $500 over some more expensive acoustics.
>
>
> I've played and owned a large variety of high end, and low end, gear, 
> and beyond a certain price point it isn't about sound anymore. I have 
> a Gibson Les Paul Custom worth about $2700 and I never take it out of 
> the case because I'm afraid It'll get scratched, that guitar is a 
> piece of art, my other electric was a $600 strat copy I got 15 years 
> ago and it still sounds and plays amazing. I also owned a $1500 Taylor 
> 814ce and I prefer my $300 Epiphone. My brother in-law plays custom 
> built guitars int the $4000 range and I can till out play him on a 
> pawn shop guitar any day of the week. Given the choice between a 
> functional great sounding instrument that I can drag to a gig or up 
> around a campfire or the worlds most lusted after instrument I'd go 
> with the budget gear and enjoy the hell out of it, I bet no one ever 
> got drunk around a camp fire deep in the Rocky Mountains with a 
> Stradivarius and had the best time of their life.

Generally I agree. I was honestly surprised to find the sweet spot for 
classical guitars to be so high in price. I expected machining to have 
gotten so much better in the last decades that factory built low-medium 
end classical guitars would hold up sound wise to hand built classicals. 
But to my dismay I found it not to be true. For campfire trips I still 
take my 250 euro yamaha classical though..

Flo

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Florian Paul Schmidt
http://fps.io

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