In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment


While the world is in the middle of a major economic event, the last two pieces of gear posted by Stereophile to their online site average $30K a piece.


https://www.stereophile.com/content/aavik-acoustics-u-380-integrated-amplifier
https://www.stereophile.com/content/ta-mp-3100-hv-sacd-playerstreaming-dac


If this doesn't make you feel like you belong to their target audience I don't know what will.
erik_squires
MD VA FL CT statistics for today look bad already and it’s not even lunchtime. Shut the cave door and back to pigmy country!

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
If you believe this, then you are miss-allocating your funds. $20K is not bare-bones, unless you are wasting a ton of money of audio jewellery and not things that will really make a difference, like speakers, room acoustics, a tolerable source and amp.

a $20,000 audio system, which is bare-bones today

Maybe when health care workers walk off the job people will get the message that this is not a joke?
geoffkait21,956 posts05-21-2020 11:42amMD VA FL CT statistics for today look bad already and it’s not even lunchtime. Shut the cave door and back to pigmy country!

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Yeah, I saw those pictures of crowds in Brooklyn, in Central Park and other places in NYC. Level of brain power and solidarity are incredible. What kind of music would you play to them ?
A nice dirge, perhaps?