For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system.
Do you think, in retrospect, that you could have gotten better sound quality out of your sound system with much less money spend. Do you have any regrets for spending huge amount of $$$? If you can start all over again, what would be different this time around? Let’s talk about electronics only and not room improvement for now. I know they go together, but the subject becomes very broad - assume your room is near perfect for sound reproduction.
P.S. Mike Levine, please don't shy away from the subject.
My condolences! Wow, that has got to be rough… you only live once.
I have been lucky. My significant other (of 36 years), likes to heckle me about my audio addiction.. but she also recognizes that on average I worked 70+ hours a week over the last 30+ years and taken care of her (she is diabled)… so, she really lets me do what I want (as long as she gets a new component for her home theater before I get a new component, of course). |
@wfowenmd “My only regret will be realized if on the occasion of death, my wife of 40+ years sells my equipment at the prices I claimed to have paid for my system.” LOL!LOL!LOL! Time to prepare your solemn “only open after my death” letter! |
@nonoise You'r one cleaver SG. For some reason, I like your short sentence. Thank you. |
First, thanks for the many who mentioned their ROOMS as being the key component of any system. I keep saying it, but sometimes get push-back. For those who doubt it, I would ask why a city hires a specialist to design a concert hall when they could just build a cheap building with no design specs whatsoever. Maybe because they actually wanted people to COME to the concerts? Whatever. Believe what you want; doesn’t make it true. As for money spent, I know EXACTLY what I would buy if I could, and it would probably cost more than $100,000. Largest Maggies, ARC 600T’s, etc. THAT would be a system that would last me a lifetime! As for my former customers who DID buy such systems, congrats! You were capable of earning enough to indulge your hobby. People pay a million dollars+ for an old Mustang these days, 100% of which were huge piles of junk. You pays your money and takes your choice! Cheers! |
I owned a Audiostore for a number of years getting 50%+ off on many items allows systems going into the $6 digit pricing that being said I used to offer and have created system enhancers that do actually work quite well even in Highend systems such as my Duelund Audio purifiers I took the summer off, that being said. Modding your electronics ,as well as Loudspeaker Xovers makes a dramatic improvement saving 2-3x the$$ vs New and without question better performance . Whati have found and please remember on average only 25% or less actually goes into the components or average ,the rest R&D overhead and markup, the Xover parts in a loudspeaker ,are at Best average ,worlds best Duelund capacitors you will Never see in any speaker ,why ? Humblehomemade Hifi capacitor test. Speakers i mod mysel and coupling caps ,ifs it’s much more involved in electronics like Bellison regulators i hire a good tech . save $10000s and get much better performance . Look for real good used quality and then have it modded by a good Audio tech that knows their stuff. That's how Dan Modwright made his reputation. |
