Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :)

Good point that will be useful for low budget people as me ...Thanks

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I can't claim my system is low cost but I do have a temporary amp in service now while my new amp is being built.  It is a little 14 lb 2.3 wpc Decware SE84UFO that just does a spectacular job with a sensitive speaker.  list price about $1200.

Jerry

My complete setup as is - e.i.: with main speakers, power amps and DAC/preamp bought used - has set me back about the same as the retail price of my DAC/preamp when new, which is to say around $12k. If all components had been acquired new the price would have sat in the $30-35k range, so effectively I paid about 1/3 of that. My subs are DIY (cabs built by a cabinet maker), and would've been significantly more expensive if preassembled and all. 

For what my system does sonically at $12k I dare say it's a bargain. With a Danish-developed reference DAC and great sounding british studio amps, both of which few if no audiophiles know about (or cares to), it's a below-radar component approach that serve both the pro cinema-segment main speakers and horn-based subs very well - all actively configured at that, and that are quite unorthodox in audiophilia as well.

Coming down to it it's fun seeking out gear and design approaches that nobody really expects to perform well in domestic environments, and not least gratifying seeing their faces when they're proved wrong. However the goal was never to surprise anyone, but rather to simply follow the paths that lead to great sound reproduction - irrespective of conventions. 

Great post! Thanks

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After reading the OP and the replies to the OP and then the OP's response to the replies, I guess this was only a rhetorical question?

Am i deaf? Am i ignorant of high end ?

 

What means a Rhetorical question for you ?

I asked other people impressions about their own relatively low cost system and their potential satisfaction ... Some answered to my question which was not rhetorical at all and i thank them for their testimonies ...

when i wrote :

Am i deaf? Am i ignorant of high end ?

It was sarcasm directed toward people like you it seems, whom i know will not like my sincere question and will take it negatively as a claim against their own opinion about what means " high end " and his relation to price and acoustics evaluation  and experience ...

It seems i was right ...😁 You came with this post  i guess will come ...

Some had taken  my questions as sincere one and answered rightfully and i  had thank them ...It is always conforting not being alone even if your are a free spirit...

But it seems you take my questions ONLY as a provocation... You are not even wrong because my claim could be upsetting then i add : am i deaf or am i ignorant of high end ? as a sarcasm...😊 You took the bait...

If you had read me sincerely you will have read the important distinction i made between my low cost system minimal acoustic satisfaction level and threshold and maximal one ... Then there is no pretense in me , only the underlining fact i surmissed and underlined about the importance of electrical, mechanical and acoustical controls of any system/room AT ANY PRICE ...

Then take your rhetorical accusation and keep them with you in the refrigerator ...

We can enjoy relatively good audiophile experience with a relatively low cost system if we know what we do...Even sonic ectasy as i enjoy ...

 

Is it forbidden to ask for other people confirmation about our own experience only because it does not suit your unfounded opinion ?😊

my own opinion is grounded in basic knowledge , it is not a claim throw to the wind , a rhetorical question; it is a question asking also and mainly for what is other people experience ...

 

 

Anybody know that a high end design is better... It is a common place fact...

Not much people know that we can go toward high satisfaction levels with a relatively low cost system... This is not common place  fact  as the other one is ...

Then your innuendos and accusation toward my thread are rhetorical , my answers and claims are not ...

 

After reading the OP and the replies to the OP and then the OP’s response to the replies, I guess this was only a rhetorical question?