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Are You An Audiophile Or A Music Lover?

Try to imagine yourself in the following fantasy:

In your youth you foolishly make a deal with Satan whereby he immediately gives you whatever you desire (wealth, talent, fame, etc.). You in turn grant Satan the right that at some future date he can take from you something you value. Years later you're sitting in your professionally designed, acoustically perfect music room listening to a selection from your 10,000+ music collection on your $500,000+ system. Suddenly there's a knock on the door. It's his Satanic Majesty and it's payback time. You think he's going to take your soul, but surprisingly he gives you a choice. You can either keep your system, but you'll only be able to listen to a single piece of music - forever, or you can keep the 10,000+ music collection, but you can only listen to it over a sub $100 boombox - again, forever. Which would you chose?

Bonus points if you made your deal with the devil after midnight at the crossroads.
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gthrush1
241 posts
 
I'd give up the system and keep the music collection. Then, I'd sell the boombox on Ebay (assume proceeds are ~$75).

Finally, I'd hit the yard sales and find a vintage tube receiver with phono stage for $40, an abused Rega P2 for $25, and an Optimus 3400 CD for $10.

In the future, I'd save my pennies for maintenance and very small upgrades.
rcprince
3,075 posts
 
Gotta give him the system, a clear no-brainer, given that I can be moved by a piece of music on a car stereo. With my luck, the only music he'd let me listen to on the system would be disco, anyway!
garfish
1,840 posts
 
Aah! the "Crossroads"-- seems like I've been there-- at least in my nightmares, and of course the movie-- great soundtrack by Ry Cooder;>) Seems like some above have changed the rules of your game, ie you specified "boombox only" for listening. As those above though, I've gotta' go with the music and hope I could find a high end boombox for less than $100.

BTW '61, it's threads like this one that make this forum interesting, so thanks. A steady diet of technical questions/concerns gets old, IMO. Cheers. Craig
bluenose
387 posts
 
Let's give an amen to that Sdcampbell. Gotta have the music....you know, this would make a great starting chapter to a Dean Koontz novel.
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
I'm a music lover, but I hear small details and misperformance of the reproducing equipment and always aim to get rid of that with either upgrades or tweaks whichever I consider as a neccessity.
My most expencive component in my system is my analogue record collection(arround 750 vinyls right now)
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