Taking your stereo in a new direction???

[pixelthis]

Gentlemen, that's very interesting... BUT, no more cowardice!!!! What's your second choice for stereo??? Not HT, as HT might just mean buying more of the same products in 5.1 or 7.1, rather than 2.0!

THERE is no "second" choice for stereo, there is a best way to listen to audio, and its not
a question of "cowardice".
THE TECH has been worked out long ago, and if you want to spend your coin on kooky
RUBE goldberg stuff like electrostats or SET amps that were obsolete about the time
Elvis made his first appearance, more power to you. I see no point in entertaining such notions, as I WOULD NEVER WASTE MONEY on such nonsense, even if I had any.
It is fun to gander at mega buck under performing systems whose only function
is sucking money outta your pocket like a Kirby vaccume cleaner, tho.
THE capacity of self delusion that exists in humans never ceases to amaze.

[Ajani]

THERE is no "second" choice for stereo, there is a best way to listen to audio, and its not
a question of "cowardice".
THE TECH has been worked out long ago, and if you want to spend your coin on kooky
RUBE goldberg stuff like electrostats or SET amps that were obsolete about the time
Elvis made his first appearance, more power to you. I see no point in entertaining such notions, as I WOULD NEVER WASTE MONEY on such nonsense, even if I had any.
It is fun to gander at mega buck under performing systems whose only function
is sucking money outta your pocket like a Kirby vaccume cleaner, tho.
THE capacity of self delusion that exists in humans never ceases to amaze.

"cowardice" was really a joke to stimulate them to give a non "safe" response...

Anyway, it's good to see time hasn't made you soft... Still on that hard-line stance about which technology is superior...

For me, the hobby is just that: "a hobby", so whether a tech is superior, inferior, obsolete, whatever, doesn't matter as long as it is fun...

[E-Stat]

THE capacity of self delusion that exists in humans never ceases to amaze.

I most certainly concur!

rw

[SlumpBuster]

My response should confuse the hell out of you Pixel because it is cheap and not esoteric (which you should like) but involves obsolete technology (which you do not like).

I'd like a vintage party system like the ones I saw and could not afford in high school and college. I'm talking like pair of Infinity SM155


With Carver Amplification


with an Akai


and a Technics


front end. Its a system I could put together today for $1500. It would garner no respect, but be tremendous fun. 105db sensitivity with Infinity refinement will get a party started. I could put the system together, but would not have any room for it.

[poppachubby]

I'd like a vintage party system like the ones I saw and could not afford in high school and college. I'm talking like pair of Infinity SM155
Its a system I could put together today for $1500. It would garner no respect, but be tremendous fun. 105db sensitivity with Infinity refinement will get a party started. I could put the system together, but would not have any room for it.

Slump my Sound Dynamics rate at 102db sensitivity and are AWESOME fun. I will never get rid of them. You should indulge yourself.

[pixelthis]

My response should confuse the hell out of you Pixel because it is cheap and not esoteric (which you should like) but involves obsolete technology (which you do not like).

I'd like a vintage party system like the ones I saw and could not afford in high school and college. I'm talking like pair of Infinity SM155


With Carver Amplification


with an Akai


and a Technics


front end. Its a system I could put together today for $1500. It would garner no respect, but be tremendous fun. 105db sensitivity with Infinity refinement will get a party started. I could put the system together, but would not have any room for it.

Not that I don't like old stuff, as long as it was built right in the first place.
Your Infinities look nice, and some of that other stuff is interesting. I THINK YOUR technics platter is newer than either one of my two .
And I don't "hate" any tech, I find it all fascinating, but the case has been made against
tube tech, and delusional types just haven't gotten the word yet.
like some of the drunks I used to arrest..."well, sir, for starters you ran through a stop sign,
and I MEAN THROUGH a stop sign, and the pastor will be pissed about what you did
in the baptismal pool...
"Oh thats just great...got a light?" AND SO ON.
Don't care for harmonic distortion in the audible range, don't care if you call it that or the "warm" tube sound. Don't care for heater circuits in my amps, just a path for noise.
And the heat and the electrons traveling through vaccume lead to an unstable circuit,
no way to keep it on the straight and narrow.
Which is fine, just don't announce your obsolete , over priced junk as the second coming
of our good lord. I SAY its obsolete junk and I SAY TO H*** with it.
The criteria for so called "audiophiles" is, the older and more obsolete the better.
One guy actually introduced a slightly gussied up gramophone one year at
C.E.S and watched in amusement as pretentious "audiophiles" swarmed all over it.
And peeps wonder why the hobbies dying.

[pixelthis]

OH, and Akai cassette decks never were worth squat, the ones that didn't die faster than a fruit fly sounded like crap. Sorry. THE delicate bits on that deck has been separating
oxide from tape for years. Congrats on having one that still works. Reminds me of
the Volkswagen WOODY ALLEN found in a cave in the movie Sleeper. Cranked
right up, although several hundred years old. BUT thats expected in a VOLKSWAGEN.