fleschler
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| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System @kota1 Yes, it may not be worth $1 million even if it cost that much. I've heard at least a dozen near and over $1 million systems at shows and at an audio store. Only ONE type was worth it to my wife and I. Also, many about 50+ reviewers/criti... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? My secondary system cost $5,000. Legacy Signature IIIs, a highly modified Dynaco Stereo 70 (voltage regulated not ultralinear now), custom subminiature pre-amp, Kyocera 310x (upgraded caps), Grover Huffman Empress cabling and a Synergistic Resear... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? My main system cost about $70,000 with lots of gear (78s TT, DAT, R2R, CD mastering deck, multiple amps and pre-amps). My cables cost about $5,000 (7 power, 7 ICs, digital, speaker cable). My room cost $150,000 custom built for listening. (You can... | |
| What's it worth to you? I love discogs, better than ebay. I've purchased so many mint condition CDs at reasonable prices from the U.S. Foreign shipping costs are prohibitively expensive. I only bought one misrepresented LP (near mint was trashed) but the seller refund... | |
| What's it worth to you? I know, I have my limits and I'm well off. I sold a terrible sounding MOFI disc, Lorin Maazel conducts Respighi for $295 when I saw a half dozen available for $350 to $550 (now Ebay has four for $200 to $471). I paid a buck for it in a collectio... | |
| What's it worth to you? @tablejockey On popsike the highest paid last year was $300. Otherwise, under $70 for many sales. The Discogs listing is an outlier. Sorry. | |
| Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects All 3 of my upper end DACs are fully balanced designs. All three sound better with XLR cables than RCA, from the same manufacturer. Not Mogami but Grover Huffman cables (lower cost boutique). | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? I equate Audiophile hobbiest with housing landlords. The rent is always to high to tenants. Audio equipment is always too expensive to laymen. It doesn’t matter how much one spends on their hobby if it isn’t audio gear to most people. Watches, car... | |
| What's it worth to you? and 7,000 CDs and 7,000 78s. I have a storage room adjacent to my custom built listening room which holds 18,500 LPs and 78s and the nearly all the CDs. I have about 250 CDs in a rack in the corner of my listening room. The LPs are arranged by ... | |
| What's it worth to you? Among my 28,500 LPs, I have several dozen $300 to $500 (maybe more now) classical records of the Better Records variety. An example is Backhaus plays Brahms on the original Decca versus the London and London STS later releases, a Japanese Decca a... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @mapman @thyname +10 | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @rcaguy I am NOT a data denier. I also am not a real audiophile since I do not worry about my equipment (or their measurements). I prefer to listen to my music as I also don’t have the time to concern myself with what could make my audio system s... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @rcaguy +1 I agree with you. There is a lack of accurate test measurements by manufacturers. There is an overabundance of purple prose. Specs are often meaningless (when I see -10db bass frequency, I assume there is something suspect about the... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @holmz I agree. The $15K cartridge sounded great in a $1+ million system (Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement on a Kronos top turntable). Using my LPs, it couldn’t sound more realistic and involving. Maybe it would have sounded great on my other old... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? @prof So, you are a firm believer that all digital cable, if correctly made, sounds the same. So what I say is snake oil. That's where I am 100% certain you are mistaken. I stated you can believe what you want but don't imply that I am wrong b... |