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| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. @squared80 is a troll. | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. @bipod72 - if you're not a fan of SD, you're not a fan. Some people think they are too slick or "Yacht Rock"y - everyone is entitled to their opinion. But you cannot deny their incredible musicianship and recording quality. They are in a class by ... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. @bipod72 - I'm sorry but Steely Dan has NO bad songs. Of the very small number groups I listen to where I think EVERY album is worthy or being in my library (just about all groups have bad albums) of rotating albums they are the only group with no... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album Aja and Kind of Blue UHQRs go neck and neck for my best sounding records. Doesn't hurt that they are my 2 favorite albums also. Too many others to mention, because I don't listen to any just for the sound quality. If I don't like a record, I don'... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD My point is that it is impossible to find the time to listen to 31000 records. | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD @facten - why amused? Streaming for exploring is fine (not personally for me), but you have to like something and listen to what you like at least once a year. 3500 records = about 2600 hours of listening. That's more than a full time job if you d... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD @fleschler - I didn't even think of the term archivist. If you are creating a reference library for others to access, it makes sense, especially since it sounds like you have the space for it and can find a title in a minute or so. As far as liste... | |
| The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD @fleschler - obviously you are a hoarder or maybe more kindly, an overcollector. What is the point of having a record that you can't possibly listen to more than once in your lifetime? I listen maybe 15-20 hours a week which equates to about 1000... | |
| VPI Industries---Love the Company as Much as their Turntables I met Mat at his offices and he was incredibly down to earth, nice and reasonable. Sold me a new van den Hul cartridge (they are the US distributor) instead of getting my old one serviced since he said the pandemic had made it very difficult to to... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR @bdp24 - over in the US I think Soundsmith is more popular with the higher end audio market than Grade which makes some very inexpensive cartridges. 5mv output sounds like it would blow up my phono stage! | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR @lalitk - that's exactly what I said - they (Elusive Disc) charge tax if you live in a state that charges it. That changed fairly recently - you used to be able to buy records from them in sales tax states without paying it. Then the Amazon rule k... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR @lalitk I thought elusive disc charges sales tax if the state you live in collects it (that's what they told me). For the cost of shipping alone, you will get a lower pressing number direct from AS and the peace of mind and quicker availability i... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR @larsman - that's why I said forget that generalization too. @bdp24 - sorry for not mentioning moving iron - don't know much about them other than they are mainly sold by Soundsmith and are a small niche, so of course any model can be compared to ... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR We are very fortunate that there are several companies making high level audiophile records these days from $38 for Blue Note Tone Poet series to AP UHQRs at $150. Comparisons between MOFI (I assume you are referring to the One Steps from Music Di... | |
| I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do? You should be able to get a nice discount on $50K speakers. at least 20-25% which makes the decision easier. If I were going to spend that kind of dough (which I wouldn't) I would buy from a dealer for peace of mind. If I couldn't get any discount... |