I want to know for those who have arrived got their best system together. What is the story behind how you ended up with your gear and will you be happy for a long time with it.
Ah, yes. Mr. @zuesman, the Sim guy. I remember him well. Maybe he will find a home on Audio Asylum.
@luvtubes69@grislybutter@invalid@msbel@newton_john Zuesman is lying about what we use he doesn’t know. He tried to even hide his intentions with the owner of our company by pretending to be someone else. He has had 8 or 9 different names since he has been on Audiogon the last 20 years. He has been kicked off many times for behavioral issues. I had to do a reverse look up and checked all the times he has changed his name. All the times he was kicked off and every audiophile name he ever had. He even emailed the owner of Infigo and used an old email account to disguise who he was. He pretends to live where he doesn’t and pretends to have gear he doesn’t. It’s crazy to me. The way I was able to figure it all out. It’s a shame. That’s why you gotta be careful out here in these Audiogon streets. lol 😂
I begun with Tannoy... I listened few others systems...out of my budget...
I was unsatisfied even with system better than mine anyway...
I begun making my experiments and studying to do them...
I now own the least costly of system but optimized, the least costly even among system i heard in the past...
i am now totally happy acoustically in spite of limitations with a 4 inches driver ...
And with my optimized headphone i had as much bass than with woofers and very natural speakers sound quality (out of the head with good recordings) ...
Those who dont adress acoustics basic pay the price....
@luvtubes69@grislybutter@invalid@msbel@newton_john Zuesman is lying about what we use he doesn’t know. He tried to even hide his intentions with the owner of our company by pretending to be someone else. He has had 8 or 9 different names since he has been on Audiogon the last 20 years. He has been kicked off many times for behavioral issues. I had to do a reverse look up and checked all the times he has changed his name. All the times he was kicked off and every audiophile name he ever had. He even emailed the owner of Infigo and used an old email account to disguise who he was. He pretends to live where he doesn’t and pretends to have gear he doesn’t. It’s crazy to me. The way I was able to figure it all out. It’s a shame. That’s why you gotta be careful out here in these Audiogon streets. lol 😂
@newton_johnim all digital streaming at this point my streamer also has a hard drive in it. So I’m happy. I’ve got a sound I’m happy with and and I got my system right where I want it to be.
Hi there. So sorry to hear about your loss of Charles this many years ago. Perhaps he is up there smiling at you carrying the torch here in this community, and I am sure others ...
Time, place, age, friends, cables ... in that order :)
@calvinjOver the decades, my preference has swung between vinyl and CD/digital at least a couple of times.
I tried to ditch vinyl altogether five years ago. Now, I am back into it again.
Ironically, it was improvements on the the digital side that made vinyl so much better too through the Urika II phono stage. Thereafter, I found that I prefer vinyl. Digital files and streaming high res just don’t do it for me any more.
@msbel love hearing your story. I lost one of my audiophile brothers Charles about 10 years ago. Was unexpected and I was stunned. We used to listen to music all the time and talk audio a lot. Me,him and my friend Bill had the best times. Putting systems together and competing against one another. Great times. Your story reminds me of that.
25+ years ago. Sitting at a picnic table behind a well known hifi shop where the owner and a British elder (magician) were recapping torn up Eico’s and Marantz 8B’s, while customers perused $30K CD Transports (remember them?) inside. We sort of chilled out and had some laughs. Hit it off I guess.
One thing led to another as we all became more friends with the same sarcastic twisted humor. Not sure I actually went into the shop that much, We were all jazz LP collectors. Kind of like the "after school gang" hanging.
So, eventually -- with their help, and fair - not rip off artists. They ran the same stuff at home.
Original Quad ESL 57’s
Marantz 8B restored to spec - man, that amp was/is sublime
Eico monos fully recapped running NOS you know what EL84’s
Sonic Frontiers, or maybe Anthem - right when one became the other -- tube pre with the cage ripped off. That was a finicky beast - I hated dealing with that thing.
Merrill Heirloom/Merch Dp6/Koetsu (insert wood type for that era). Someone came in and traded this $4000 now used analogue rig toward a Krell transport.
The owner called me and said do you want this? I said how much, he said "$750, It’s not perfect cosmetically, I don’t want to deal with it." I said fine with me. There was small dent in the Heirloom lead platter ring clamp, and some pitting on the Merch arm. Who cares. I know now he was throwing me a bone.
MIT cables used.
I don’t remember the rest.
However, I do remember John Coltrane standing right in front of me while an original pressing of Giant Steps played on this rig, and it scared the living crap out of me - not small holographic sweet spot, no, actually his 6" 4 self in front me. Must be as the Quads are angled up, and the room was perfectly wide, whatever voodoo was going on - it happened more than once.
Maybe it was the pot :) Not the amplifier kind ha.
Anyway, had to dump all of it when kids started running around everywhere and f-ing things up, not to mention ungrounded vintage voltage that could actually kill someone. Ended up with an LFD/Spendor kit many years ago still in action.
I have surrendered to the fact that I heard the sublime (for me), and that is good enough.
It was a time and place, with comrades in arms, at a certain age, doing our thing, loving music first, and whatever voodoo my hifi buddies did with those magic caps, transistors, and whatever else we were smoking.
@invalid@grislybutterthis happens everytime I put a thread up. If you see all the posts before he came on. We were having a good conversation even when guys disagreed they were respectful. There is a lot of hard work that goes into researching and producing great gear and products. We tested multiple variations of cables. We spent time perfecting the electronics and addressing design, distortion, chip implementation, design, heat dissipation etc etc. Then you have a guy that comes on to a thread only to play games and be disrespectful to other members and to play internet identity games with brands and the hard work they put in. Then he bullies and destroys legitimate conversations on threads when he doesn’t have anything to offer. He probably does not even have the gear he is posting about. He hasn’t even heard the gear he is posting against. This is why o left Audiogon about 6 or 7 years ago. Him and people like him. It’s sad. Now he has started rage posting and it totally destroys the post and turns people away from this post and Audiogon as a whole
@invalidhe might be. But I think it’s far worse. The depths that he went to to diss multiple brands. Trying to destroy names and relationships is sinister. Audiogon gonna have to do smthg about him because it’s not a free speech thing. He is destroying other brands being slanderous and he does not own or even have the gear to try. Nor does he own the gear he speaks of. The sad part is he has fooled multiple people on Audiogon as well as even calling companies to play like he is interested in gear only to try to use the information to talk the gear down later. Plenty of people have tried our Infigo audio cables. We literally give free demos because we know they perform well. So all of this inferior wire talk is BS. You trying you like them you get them. You don’t you send them back. Zuesman behavior is very detrimental to Audiogon and audiophiles as a whole and it’s a shame
@grislybutterthe people from stereophile came to our Infigo and Alta Audio room last year at Axpona we had all Infigo cabling and electronics in the system. Out of more than 100 rooms of audio he heard in 3 days he named our system one of the top 5 at Axpona then used our hear and set up picture as the landing page for their Axpona reviews last year.
@deep_333, he comes on threads to troll he doesn’t have the cables or equipment or the knowledge he speaks of. He comes on to destroy serious thread conversation. BUT YOU ASKED AND EXCELLENT QUESTION THOUGH. HE WOULD NOT KNOW!
Unfortunately the wire that you're using is not that good and extremely overpriced, I was on the website and to charge $4,000 US for 2 m speaker wire that's made from the cheapest wire out there which is OFC is criminal, OCC single crystal wire is far superior to anything OFC at any price that companies are ripping people off for and the rectangular OCC single crystal wire is even better than the round OCC and I talked to Hans about this and he said he was using OCC single crystal wire, well obviously not because I looked up all your cables on your website and everything is cheap OFC wire, shame on you for ripping people off for so much money for inferior wire, I have no doubt that my system would leave yours in the dust because of the cabling and The electronics I'm using.
@zuesman, Color me this ...Let us suppose you were gleeful one day because you bought some great OCC.....but, what if the sales guy said it was OCC (wrote OCC on the packaging) and sold you some peasant class OFC or pauper class tinned copper instead, how would you find out? You wouldn't be able to find out, would you?
@grislybutterdont take him seriously. If you listen to what he was saying about the d’agistino and simaudio it doesn’t even make any sense. He just trolls everyone.
I have no idea what motivates Zeusman he comes on my thread and disses our equipment and brand. He even went as far as trying to trick the owner of our company then taking the conversation to use it against me on Audiogon. He is the reason why some people leave the platform. He doesn’t actually own the equipment. He might not even live in Canada. It’s sad. We come here for serious conversations and to share things and people like him come in and destroy the real knowledge and the brands that people work hard to build. I doubt he even owns simaudio that he speaks of.
@grislybutterhe comes on to any thread I create then starts dissing my system. He has been removed several times. I would not respond to him. He comes on to all of my threads and others and destroys the real conversations that people have. He probably doesn’t have the simaudio gear he says he has. He dants about occ copper this and that. Don’t engage with him.
@zuesman listen I know who you are you have been kicked off of my threads and you come back again and again. I’m not going to argue with you. Take care. Be respectful to everyone on this thread. Have courtesy. If not please leave the thread.
@zuesmanthank you for clarifying. So the guy bought the D'Agostino in the US and then returned it in Canada? Did he do it for Canadian dollars? I might still be confused.
I thought 85K was the magic number. A lot of zeros are being discussed here. You people must have excellent hifi equipment.
Yes you definitely are confused and you don't know how to read very well, I said that the 861 sounded better in every area that's why the guy that owned the dagostino after one month comparing the 861 to the dagostino sold his D'Agostino and kept the 861. I never owned the D'Agostino but I also bought the 861 and it is absolutely phenomenal it will beat amplifiers twice the price. The D'Agostino is $44,000 in the US 63,000 in Canada, the 861 is $22,000 US and $29,000 Canadian. that's how good the SIM audio amp is.
My upgrade path was the same as bassbuyer, I did it over time as well and my system is now worth $85,000 Canadian just upgraded my amp to the SIM audio 861 amplifier which just beat the dagostino momentum MVX-S250 in head to head testing for a month by a customer who owned the D'Agostino he said that the 861 was better in every area and he sold the dagostino and bought the 861, the D'Agostino is $44,000 US and the 861 is $22,000 US, just goes to show you how good SIM audio amplifiers are they will beat other amplifiers at double and triple the price.
I assembled what I thought was the perfect digital system as the culmination of nearly half a century in this wonderful hobby from vinyl to CD to digital files to streaming. There were many twists and turns along the way, but it took the reintroduction of a vinyl source last year to get me to where I want to be.
@zavatoman I’m here and happy. I got a pretty expensive rig but it’s not the cost that made my system. I got synergy throughout. I’m happy as ever and I’m calling it a day. We have to learn when to hold em. I’m holding!
Slow and steady, and curbing my expectations. Learning when I have had enough. That's how I have the system I now have, which with the exception of having added streaming, is pretty much what I had 10 years ago.
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