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| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Major breakthrough on this thread though. Most agree all wires do not sound the same. I'll buy that. That's progress whenever people tend to agree on most anything these days. | |
| Tone of Muisc, SF - worst hifi experience. Yours? Two sides to every story. Glad to hear them. | |
| Tone of Muisc, SF - worst hifi experience. Yours? My only real bad experience was at SBS with the man himself.I was one for two there. The prior time with another employee helping me was fine.FWIW SBS closed their doors soon after. | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Makes sense. Very heavy duty!Thanks Al. | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable I feel the need to hear really good systems with really expensive gear including wires just so I know what they sound like as a "reference" and what I might be missing otherwise.But I have yet to feel the need to buy any of it.I have felt the need... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps Chalice Audio Grail amps are interesting to me. I didn't realize a SET amp could produce 50 w/ch into 8 ohm. How do they do that? | |
| What direction with new DAC? "Mapman, isn't this whole hobby built on want instead of need?" True. But if one truly loves music, or anything for that matter I think there is what might be called an inherent need to be able to get the most you can out of the time you invest, w... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable I have no doubt that there is HUGE profit in the minimalist designed DNM Reson ICs that I use exclusively these days. But they are reasonably affordable (on teh grand scale of high end audio things) and I can clearly hear the difference they make ... | |
| What direction with new DAC? "With the almost daily changes in computer audio, when do you jump in for an upgrade?"Good question.The easy answer is whenever you think you need one.DACs in general have continued to improve and the cost for excellent performance gone down in re... | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable My recollection from retail sales days is that historically all wires tended to be mostly profit to help compensate for the fact that there was little profit in selling electronics. I doubt much has changed except that more people realize the prof... | |
| What direction with new DAC? With any new or cutting edge technology you are always best off waiting as long as you can to jump aboard in that new technologies continue to improve and mature over time and with successful ones prices tend to go down as well. | |
| why do people feel the need to buy expensive cable Because they have big investments in their systems and are concerned the wires would be the bottleneck otherwise. | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Back to original topic take a look at Isoacoustics pro monitor stands on Amazon. | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Uh.....no. | |
| Shopping for speakers at $1500-$2000 is a chore. Aon 2 or 3. Whichever fits best. |