csontos
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| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? And what are we, chopped liver? The best year to have been born in is 1957 thank you very much. Birth of rock and roll. We grew up together:) | |
| Most expensive piece of vinyl you acquired is? I haven't bought vinyl for a very long time. But I don't value the most expensive ones the most. I have a bunch of pseudo direct to "disk" I bought in the eighties for around $30 bucks each but the one I prize the most is a true direct to disc Min... | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver Al, you're obviously blessed with better ears than me. Although I can hear quality differences with great recordings, it's the poor ones that seem to be a better yard stick for me. | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver Frogman, I would hazard a guess that among nine out of ten non-audiophiles there would be consensus that the differences are slight. The basic circuit hasn't changed since it's inception. Serious differences only exist among speakers, the weakest ... | |
| room dimention question It's only a problem if you think it is. It is what it is. Go with it. That's not all that low imo. | |
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? I think you summed it up. | |
| Modern High end vs. old receiver When the best minds pretty well think alike, it's hard for them to compete with each other. The trick is finding them without it being too expensive. | |
| KEF Speakers You probably don't want ancient Kefs or B&Ws as they would be their early/first offerings. The examples they themselves learned from. | |
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? Your Final Frontier! | |
| Amplifier's age Exactly. It's either ho-hum or an improvement. | |
| Small difference equating to a big difference? I use Diamond Back on everything. Not junky and not expensive. In keeping with my little rant, they are also the models with cold welded rca's. Which model Diamond Backs are you using and do the Blue Jeans cables have cold welded rca's? | |
| When did you know you're different? Yea. When did you realize you care much more about the gear than your peers? | |
| Amplifier's age Yes there will always be competent techs. And yes, there will be enough carcasses to cannibalize in ours and the lifetime to come. Just because in addition to the original designers and builders, a large tech fan base will exist for great stuff, w... | |
| Small difference equating to a big difference? So did I;), more than once. | |
| Small difference equating to a big difference? Read on, read on:) |