New Music Direct Catalog

Jokes aside, it's nice to see someone do things the old school way and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that someone like folk here who've been around for a while heads this part of their operations.

One can think of this as a kind of reward and reminder to those who indulge in this hobby that it is firmly rooted in the past despite all the technological advanced made.

Like Buconero117 put it, I'd hate to look this up online: there's something to having the physical medium. That, and I bought my Marantz gear from them and couldn't be happier so the catalog reaffirms it all.

All the best,
Nonoise

I missed the section with the tubed output 8-track players with cryogenically-treated silver output jacks.

Pray that they are not brought out by Amazon ?

I hope they are and the mark up drops and the prices fall.

Restoration Hardware rivals for its catalogs. Everything in them looks spooky.b

I had a chance to flip through this catalog today, and what jumped out at me was: What happened to speakers? When did they become so irrelevant?

I mean $30K turntables, $25K preamps, $40K monoblock amps, and the most expensive speakers they carry are $5K Wharfdale's? Hell, they were selling speaker cables that cost $5K.

I know it's not the 70's anymore, when dealers said you should spend 70% of your audio budget on speakers, but has the system totally reversed itself now? Are speakers simply a side dish now? When did that happen?

Cheers,
John