Interesting to hear many of you mentioning your love of vintagey components and old systems.
I would vote for a system I had in high school in 1979: Kenwood KD-500 with SME III and Grado Signature/Dynavector Ruby, Yamaha C-2a preamp, Hafler DH-500 power amp and Magneplanar MG-IIbs -- much more musical and enjoyable than many other mega buck systems I have had in recent years including Levinson, Audio Research, Martin Logans blah blah blah.
I used to listen for hours and now I just stumble around this forum and high end stores like some bleary eyed junkie searching for some relief.
I am not normally a sentimental guy. Has audio quality actually gotten WORSE in 25 years?
Hmmmm......maybe it's just that nasty little binary code --that we keep trying to improve?!?
I would vote for a system I had in high school in 1979: Kenwood KD-500 with SME III and Grado Signature/Dynavector Ruby, Yamaha C-2a preamp, Hafler DH-500 power amp and Magneplanar MG-IIbs -- much more musical and enjoyable than many other mega buck systems I have had in recent years including Levinson, Audio Research, Martin Logans blah blah blah.
I used to listen for hours and now I just stumble around this forum and high end stores like some bleary eyed junkie searching for some relief.
I am not normally a sentimental guy. Has audio quality actually gotten WORSE in 25 years?
Hmmmm......maybe it's just that nasty little binary code --that we keep trying to improve?!?