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Living the audiophile life.

Couldn't agree with you more about diminishing returns. Marginal cost is another way to look at it. I'd say the NAD stuff boosted my system 25 percent over the old Arcam gear. How much is the next 10 percent going to cost? $5,000? Enough for a serious set of speakers? Probably.

Interesting to note that I am the only person I know who has any kind of serious set-up. I run with a fairly fast-lane, yuppie-ish, New York crowd. (Although one that has been slowed by the arrival of children.) Everyone listens to Alexa or plugs their phone into something. If these people don't care about sound . . . 

Note that I've already declared many "advances" to be the end of civilization. I believe that texting is the main culprit. And granted that the audio industry is doing everything possible to drive these people away. But you'd think that somebody would care.

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brettmcee
Be careful with tubes. You can spend a lot of time and money with tube gear and unlike Solid State, tubes start to age as soon as you power up the device using them. And with my OCD i don’t want to worry about counting hours or testing tubes all the time.

>>>>>Everything has its price, including entry into Nirvana. 😇 
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Nirvana is free if someone pay attention....

:)
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Confucius say man who spend time talking can’t hear at same time.
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« My wife always say that I talk too much when i speak to her»-G.M.
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@geoffkait i understand perfectly what you mean about ‘costs’ and ‘nirvana’.

i sat in front of my system listening to a beautiful copy of Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love on reel-to-reel, knowing that the tape would most likely self destruct at the end.
It did.

but it was the most beautiful live performance I have ever heard, in my own home.


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