Dennis Prager Show - A "serious" discussion on audio equipment - Open Lines Hour
Aired: 2021-05-07
Duration: 02:38


=== Electronics vs. Speakers (02:37) ===

[00:00:00]  Uh-oh.
[00:00:02]  Ladies and gentlemen, I am preparing you in advance for an impassioned, angry debate with a caller.
[00:00:13]  The following call is wrong.
[00:00:19]  Trigger warning.
[00:00:22]  Roy, Valley Village, I presume California?
[00:00:27]  That's correct.
[00:00:29]  Hello.
[00:00:30]  Poor Roy.
[00:00:32]  All right, let the drummer go.
[00:00:34]  Yeah, go ahead.
[00:00:37]  Yes, Valley Village, California.
[00:00:39]  Not impassioned, but disagreeing.
[00:00:41]  No, no, I was kidding about it.
[00:00:43]  Go ahead.
[00:00:45]  A couple of weeks ago, you said that electronics in a sound system, an audio system, are more important, or most important, perhaps, than the loudspeakers.
[00:00:56]  I disagree.
[00:00:59]  It shows that even a kind, music-loving, bright man can be wrong.
[00:01:06]  And I'm referring to you.
[00:01:11]  Listen, I have...
[00:01:13]  My system is living proof, but I will give you just a simple...
[00:01:19]  You don't have to be an audiophile to understand this.
[00:01:22]  Garbage in, garbage out.
[00:01:25]  Basically all speakers today are good.
[00:01:28]  Some are great.
[00:01:30]  No question.
[00:01:31]  But it all depends.
[00:01:35]  I tell you a simple experiment.
[00:01:38]  A friend of mine has $15,000 speakers, which sounds like a fortune to most everybody listening now.
[00:01:45]  But for audiophiles, that is a bargain speaker.
[00:01:51]  $15,000 speakers.
[00:01:52]  Obviously, not each, but for the two.
[00:01:57]  And I put them in a system with $100,000 of electronics.
[00:02:04]  The speakers were of a different category.
[00:02:10]  One did not know how great they were.
[00:02:13]  And they rivaled speakers costing $45,000.
[00:02:18]  So I have lived this realization that electronics are more important than speakers.
[00:02:26]  What goes in is what matters.
[00:02:30]  You can't be better than the signal that goes in.
[00:02:33]  I don't disagree with that.
[00:02:36]  All right.
[00:02:37]  Well, anyway, listen, thank you.