All these expensive amps will soon be boat anchors. Check out the $7.5K AGD Audion....check out the $3K LSA Voyager (just released and I will be modding them soon), check out the new Mytek $6K Manhattan and $20K Empire amps (coming soon). This new generation of Class D using GaN fets is just the beginning. More and more high end companies will be releasing class D amps.....Imagine a class D output stage with Gryphon or Boulder discrete front ends driving them...WOW!. Class D output stages are tiny and super efficient....so no heatsinks and banks of output transistors. So, a Boulder or Gryphon class D amp would be way less heavy, be smaller and cost less. They might be working on a GaN class D amp right now!!!! If not, they are stuck in the past. If you stay with the expensive heavy boxes you are going to lose a lot of money and have a hard time selling them in a few years as class D takes over.
Same with preamps.....check out the $2000 Denafrips Athena preamp and also the $3100 Holo Audio Serene preamp.......some serious technology in these things and getting rave reviews......and dirt cheap compared to $40K preamps.
Speakers.....well, one can make speakers for very little that compete and beat the big boys.....has been known for years. My friend has the 98 db modified Lii Audio full range 10 inch driver on a 4 foot by 2 foot open baffle with 4 foot by one foot wings going straight back and is getting flat to 40 hz in his pretty good sized room. He added an ESS dipole AMT tweeter on top using a copper foil cap to make it even better....total cost with wood and drivers is a little over $2K. HE IS GOBSMACKED! He goes to shows and his system right now is way out there. He is going to add 2 15 inch woofs on the bottom on each channel so he can blow the walls down.....4 woofs plus solid state amp plus xover is another $3K. Should blow most $100K+ speakers away.
This thread does nothing for the average audiophile. They cannot afford any of the components discussed here. This is why so little traffic, discussions and so few people subscribing to Jay's channel. You basically have the same thing happening over and over and discussed by the same people over and over.......saying the same things over and over. It is entertaining......but look at Supercar Blonde......she is entertaining and has over 6.5 million subscribers. If you played the same game but at the level that most people are at then you would have thousands and thousands more people involved. As it is.....it is a small club....for the wealthy and conservative non tweakers......a very small amount of people.
There is nothing wrong with this thread.....Jay and others are nice people.....it just does not serve very many people.....nor does it display a wide variety of music or opinions or the REAL possibilities of audio taken to the nth degree (at whatever price point).
I know that many enjoy this thread and are grateful for Jay for doing what he does. This is all good. But.....there is more......much more......it is infinite. May all be blessed with infinite joy and love. Peace.
Same with preamps.....check out the $2000 Denafrips Athena preamp and also the $3100 Holo Audio Serene preamp.......some serious technology in these things and getting rave reviews......and dirt cheap compared to $40K preamps.
Speakers.....well, one can make speakers for very little that compete and beat the big boys.....has been known for years. My friend has the 98 db modified Lii Audio full range 10 inch driver on a 4 foot by 2 foot open baffle with 4 foot by one foot wings going straight back and is getting flat to 40 hz in his pretty good sized room. He added an ESS dipole AMT tweeter on top using a copper foil cap to make it even better....total cost with wood and drivers is a little over $2K. HE IS GOBSMACKED! He goes to shows and his system right now is way out there. He is going to add 2 15 inch woofs on the bottom on each channel so he can blow the walls down.....4 woofs plus solid state amp plus xover is another $3K. Should blow most $100K+ speakers away.
This thread does nothing for the average audiophile. They cannot afford any of the components discussed here. This is why so little traffic, discussions and so few people subscribing to Jay's channel. You basically have the same thing happening over and over and discussed by the same people over and over.......saying the same things over and over. It is entertaining......but look at Supercar Blonde......she is entertaining and has over 6.5 million subscribers. If you played the same game but at the level that most people are at then you would have thousands and thousands more people involved. As it is.....it is a small club....for the wealthy and conservative non tweakers......a very small amount of people.
There is nothing wrong with this thread.....Jay and others are nice people.....it just does not serve very many people.....nor does it display a wide variety of music or opinions or the REAL possibilities of audio taken to the nth degree (at whatever price point).
I know that many enjoy this thread and are grateful for Jay for doing what he does. This is all good. But.....there is more......much more......it is infinite. May all be blessed with infinite joy and love. Peace.