Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy

"Is Laufer even in business?"

It was in November 2019 and their website looked the same. At that time, they exhibited at an audio show.

They did play music from the Memory Player and I have no idea how much it contributed to the whole experience. However, I will admit that I enjoyed the sound in that room more than in any other room at any of two audio shows in those two or three weeks. I cannot say it was the most natural, most accurate, most whatever, except that it was what I liked the most. I suspect, without any real knowledge, that it was the speakers (The Note). Speaking of "performers being in the room". At the same time, it was the first time I have ever been exposed to that kind of speakers so maybe all of them sound like that.

I wonder what the profit margin on those speakers is.

"...buy an analog front end and you bypass all the format wars..."

There is no format war. We all agree that cassette is much better than LP.

"It’s a box full of parts any consumer can buy off the shelf."

The trick is that many (most?) of us could buy those parts, but would not know what to do with them, even if we were provided schematics. That is why we have to pay more than what the sum of parts would cost.

Another thing is design/aesthetics of the product. Many streamers look better than home-brewed items.

How much is all that worth to anyone is another discussion.

hilde45,

If that is the case, claims in the video are not worth much. Speaker's words are supported by speaker's words only. It appears to be one of the videos that is there to attract clicks for whatever reason. It goes on for 16 minutes of saying virtually nothing substantial which is another red flag that trustworthiness is questionable at best. I understand that the speaker has a reputation of being valuable in Hi-Fi world, but his claims are, so far, only claims with not even a hint of proof that what he is saying is remotely true.

hilde45,

"I don’t need the conflict..."

You are full of advices for me so you may take one from me, too.

If you do not need the conflict, do not start threads fishing for conflict.

hilde45,

"One thing you could do is learn how to scrub through a video quickly so you can see if it has what you want in it."

You are correct. I will be more careful with following your (mis)lead in the future.

How I am going to get my time back?

I hoped to see how different machines look inside and how those parts look.

Instead of that, I got to watch some messy-looking guy wave his hands all throughout the video. Why am I supposed to believe him?

Click, click, click. Bait successful.