In the past few months I've sold off an incredibly good dac, an amazing phono stage, and now I'm without vinyl for the foreseeable future until I managed to find another really good photo stage when I have the money. Right now my system consists of- all used - aragnarok 2 integrated, and Oppo 105, a Gumby, and reference 3A decapo speakers. Witty until it's time as a beautiful VPI turntable with a Hana cartridge. Take away the last two components and you have used a system that sounds absolutely incredible for about 1500. So no, it's not $1,000 but it's pretty close and truthfully, take away the Gumby DAC and just use the oppos on board DAC, and you would have a system for about a thousand that sounds phenomenal. And yes, I've had systems that measure in the five figures total and truthfully this one sounds to my ears just as good.
Did a satisfaction threshold exist under 1000 bucks ?
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I like so much my self powered small speakers that active speakers will be my next move... Is it clearer? english is not my first language then i apologize...😊
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@mahgister .... ...for a moment I thought I'd fell into an alt universe AG....familiar posters, suddenly posting in ways, means, and mentalities that....make Perfect Sense.... 😏 *L* "huh?!" ...just teasing.... ;) Of course one can have their audible cake and eat it up without a 3rd mortgage... At the end of the day, you only need to please yourself, avoid the rollercoaster of major monies on 'sorta sota' as defined by others. You spring the trap, get the gadget, later repeat the cycle for whatever reason, rationale, or just the 'can I make this Better?' Only to find you've only made it Different....good, bad, in the gray middle, or gone 'black' in both regards....the end product in sound or your new 'tude towards it. My recent foray to the P.E. Speaker Design Contest was an 'illuminating' experience on certain levels... - I've never really had the opportunity to 'hang' with a bevy of 'philes, esp. 2.5 days worth.... a 'treat' of many flavors', to be honest. - Yes, we all love what we're up to....similarities, differences...no surprises there. - That which what is loved, and shared? - Not as different as one might think. Different 'voices' towards the same end... ...just as much as us. Oh, sure...some 'clunkers', a few 'stand-outs'... But an amazing amount of Same; nuanced in many fractional fashions, but low $/high$/plain Jane'd/Finely Wrought.... Driven by the same kit, dB'd and level set.... The difference is the room and the ears heard by. "If it makes you happy...." Nothing else matters.
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Speaking of Thoreau, Steve reichert's "Gramophone Dreams" column in this month's Stereophile pretty much highlights the unctuous, boujee lifestyle some audiophiles live. (is this the article you referred to, @kota1 ?) . He was visiting a friend who lived near Walden Pond and had had a six- or seven-figure custom designed listening room built onto his existing home to house his six/seven figure audio system. The column was something out of the events preceding the French Revolution, with the 1% enjoying their canapes and politely applauding after each track was played. Sweet Jesus. As @mapman pointed out, many, many people can barely make ends meet, much less entertain even a $1000 sound system should they actually want one. And as for Walden, @hilde45 , the column mentioned (probably tongue in cheek) how even Thoreau would have wanted that speaker setup. Please. I've rarely read such an out of touch and pretentious column in that magazine. |
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