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What are you talking about? Edit: oh I see, you think strads are nothing special. Too bad for you.

• brazzy 13y ago
  Audiophiles are people who are willing to pay absurd prices to "high end" audio equipment (like speaker cables for $10k and more) which they claim to be clearly superior in sound quality, while the technical explanations fo the equipment's superiority are often nonsensical and the sound quality is not in fact distinguishable in blind tests. The grandparents is implying that the price of Stradivarius violins is also based on assumed rather than proven quality.
• JonnieCache 13y ago
  I didn't say they were nothing special. Those $15,000 dollar headphones sound amazing. It's that the price is way out of proportion to the quality. It would be fine if people admitted that strads are great largely because they're old and historically important, but they insist that they're superior violins. (Of course, that's still fine. Whatever.) I suspect that violinists are actually able to play to a higher standard on a strad, just because they're so thrilled to be doing so and this makes them focus more/less. This then feeds back into the idea that they sound better.