Should people with no turntable or reel to reel be considered audiophiles?

@gluppy you just made it back on my radar... 959 is cool

All parts vibrates, then we must controls resonance...

The electrical grid of the house must be cleaner....

The room is not an external part of your ears, it is an internal part of your hearing apparatus...Then we must controls acoustic...

These are the 3 embeddings of any audio system....The important question is how to address the embeddings....

All the rest, vinyl versus digital, costly electronics,etc, are beside the essential points to create your own Hi-FI paradise... No money is needed, only listening experiments and homemade low cost materials...


Then the question of The OP dont make sense for me....By the way I am an audiophile and I listen to my 10,000 cd and files (classical, Jazz, Indian, Persian-Iranian mainly)....

The Russian Lada 4 by 4 I owned was my favorite car because I can go anywhere in the forest roads and not be afraid of destroying it at a high cost because this car cost peanuts 25 years ago and it was easy to repair it at very low cost.... :) Then a pleasure to ride.....I apologize for being a bit "provocative" here but the thread is a bit provocative also....


" Gives me your favorite road, I will gives you the corresponding car"- Groucho Marx

tomic601,

Well, it was not my car but the man let us take laps on a sunny day. I even went on the Tauern (Autobahn) for a bit. I had not remembered it for the longest time, until reading this thread. I have no special feelings for the brand, but I do consider 928 close to the dream car.

Speaking of "utility vehicles" not being real Porsches, sokogear may need to check Jagdwagen.

Is there a collector of fancy brand tractors? Porsche, Lamborghini...

All this Porsche talk. Has anyone actually split a boxer block, like a Porsche, Offenhauser, VW, or Subaru. I have, all of them.  I use to work part time for Kieth Black, racing. I use to build diesel and boxer engines.
Did a lot of his blower work.  KB, Paxton, Jimmy 53,71,92s,
Turbo research and VT 1979-80. Also Wager and Pogosa, 1980-81

A lot of  the engines were retroed for air frames...Boxers, 2.4-3.6L twin T
can't break down up there .. I NEVER had an issue, EVER...

Please don't beat me up guys...

Last count in 2002, I had built over, 350 diesel blocks, and 1100 gas/lpg/propane blocks.

That's when I converted to a hydraulics, mainly..Drill rigs, tunnel work
Large Bore...2002-2017. All OBD2, with Cann Buss

Box and drive train, that's the tricky stuff, did quite a few 4,5,6,10-13,15 speed boxes, lots and lots of Allison, Clark, and Zs
same auto box but bigger.. The same box Porsche use in their auto shift units..and just about every German,Italian, or British made autoshift muscle car..

All this talk.... See it's fun it's festive... Hat on the floor. Turn up the music.... Cha Cha Cha..... Around the hat I go... the dog following 
me... The rabbit thinks it time to hide. Maybe so.. Down the wabbit hole we go.... Where is that mushroom?

Easy peasy..

Regards