Echo chamber

The Washington Post Pearls Before Breakfast 5 July 2012 "Bell bought it a few years ago. He had to sell his own Strad and borrow much of the rest. The price tag was reported to be about $3.5 million."

Another poignant commentary on the unfortunate demands of modern life. On the other hand, recent double-blinded experiments from the University of Paris have shown that even professional violinists cannot tell apart the supposedly superlative aural qualities of multi-million dollar antique violins from modern instruments costing less than 1% of their price. Perhaps a perverse partnership ensues when subjectivism combines with conspicuous consumption?