So I've seen an $8 coffee, a painting that cost $50,000 that I would never admit to owning and an early 2000s Honda Civic with probably more than $15,000 in after market changes. So this statement is completely false: Just know, no matter what horrors you see tonight, no matter what twisted abominations you witness walking the street, nothing will be scarier than knowing you live in a world where this kind of gross and pointless excess is seen as acceptable.
Audio equipment is one of those things that most people will never know what the difference is between what they think is good and what actually is excellent (users of Apple or Beats headphones come to mind). If you take out the collector price and would have bought them new, you probably wouldn't have thought much of plugging $1,200 headphones into your $10,000+ audio setup.
Excess is mostly governed by what you feel is important. I think anyone spending more than $1 on coffee or $75 on shoes crazy, yet I take notes with a $80 pen.
Just know, no matter what horrors you see tonight, no matter what twisted abominations you witness walking the street, nothing will be scarier than knowing you live in a world where this kind of gross and pointless excess is seen as acceptable.
Audio equipment is one of those things that most people will never know what the difference is between what they think is good and what actually is excellent (users of Apple or Beats headphones come to mind). If you take out the collector price and would have bought them new, you probably wouldn't have thought much of plugging $1,200 headphones into your $10,000+ audio setup.
Excess is mostly governed by what you feel is important. I think anyone spending more than $1 on coffee or $75 on shoes crazy, yet I take notes with a $80 pen.