Most expensive Audio disapoinment?

The Lirpa Steam-powered TT was the biggest, most expensive piece of audio gear I almost had. You see, I made a deal for one of these & actually had it delivered in two 45' trailers while I had a 40' x 28' outbuilding constructed at the back of my property to house all the equipment. Right after the framework was up on the foundation, a hurricane came through & the trailers were both overturned & smashed by a double trunk 60' gum ball tree. Yep, each trunk nailed ea. trailer. I had to hire a 50 ton crane to pick everything up & have them hauled away on an oversize flatbed. By the time I was done paying all the bills I wound up living in a van down by the river.

I'm now very, very happy with my Tivoli radio.

thanks for the comment gumbei! i like yours too. have you tried a Stealth Varidig digital IC? I am in the midst of comparing it to the AZ MC2 -- which i see that you use (or have used).

peoples memories are short. the cd was made to displace the audio cassette, not the lp. vinyl was in sharp declined long before cd arrived.....the marketplace was a 70/30 split cassette vd vinyl. spending a fortune on a cd player is just as crazy as spending a fortune on a cassette player was in the eighties. thw soon-to-be extinct sacd is next in line for a fade out.

Jeff, thanks for the compliment. I sold off most of the stuff in virtual system, but hope to one day build another system in that messy room.

I've never tried the Stealth Varig but have read a lot of good things about it. I'd like to hear how it compares to the AZ MC2 when you've come to a conclusion.

In an antithetic example to this thread, the MC2 was a great surprise in my system. For $160 used I think this is a super cable. Just after Y2K, I compared it with four other digital cables over the course of two years and the MC2 and Virtual Dynamics Nite were the clear favorites to my ears.

As for the LP > cassette > CD transition, I can say that I was not disappointed in CD redbook reproduction when it was introduced because I never owned a good analogue playback system. Ignorance is bliss!

Now if I can just control my urge to interject audio irreverence every time I see an Audiogon thread begging to be made fun of, we might get some serious work done hear. Hah!

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find new releases on 8 track tape for my 1969 Plymouth. I'd appreciate any help.
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