JFC dude, your thin skin is showing (even more than your cables). In the thread you refer to, one person asked about cable management, and literally nobody said anything about your stereo not being nice or “elite” enough. Do you think you might be overreacting just a little?
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1·10 months agoSure. Most of those tracks are on this Tidal playlist:
Yeah, it’s a fantastic-sounding album. I learned that the music style is called “Western Swing.” https://www.stereophile.com/content/lyle-lovett-music-among-great-players-can-be-conversation
I have an A8 on the way and will put it up against my Hifi Rose and Aurender streamer/DACs.
Chorale, Slagwerk Den Haag
Differently, Marian Hill
Everything In Its Right Place, Radiohead
Raleigh and Spencer, Tony Furtado Band
Death Row, Chris Stapleton
The Snow Maiden, Minnesota Orchestra
My Home’s in the Delta, Muddy Waters
Avratz, Infected Mushroom
The Incredibles, Gordon Goodwin
Wabash Blues, Duke Ellington
Royals, Lorde
Cousin John, Marcus Miller
Coolsville, Rickie Lee Jones
The Goodbye Look, Donald Fagen
Warsawa, David Bowie
You Should See Me in a Crown, Billie Eilish
The Girl in the Magnesium Dress, Frank Zappa
Bach Cello Concerto No 1, Yo Yo Ma
Too Far Gone, Metallica
Stay, Post Malone
Chokola, Alan Cavé
Ben Harper, Whipping Boy
Harlem Nocturne, Illinois Jacquet
30,000 Days, Yello
John Lee Hooker For President, Ry Cooder
Somebody’s Sins, Tricky
You Gotta Move, Parker Milsap
Chocolate Chip Trip, Tool
Quality of Mercy, Michelle Shocked
Deeper Well, Emmylou Harris
Love is a Bitch, Two Feet
My Bass, Brian Bromberg
That Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore, Los Lobos
Après la Pluie, Renaud Garcia-Fons
Birds, Dominique Fils-Aimé
Small Song, Lhasa de Sela
Money For Nothing, Dire Straits
Bring Me the Disco King, David Bowie
Jungle Blues, Kansas Smitty’s
Wishful Beginnings, David Bowie
Let’s Hope, Bruce Fowler
Hunting Wabbits, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band
Kanne, Thaikkudam Bridge
Song of the Stars, Dead Can Dance
Paper Tiger, Beck
Drum Solo, Manu Katché
The Howling, RY X
Till Tomorrow, Yello / Till Brönner
Fields of Gold, Eva Cassidy
…and more!
Listened extensively (hundreds of hours) to the TD3.8s and found them just terrific. Then I had occasion to hear the TotL Raidho TD6s and those floored me. Way outside my budget but they’re easily among the best, most revealing / most natural speakers I’ve ever heard. As they should be at that price.
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You should feel the knobs on my McIntosh amp. Wobbly and plasticky. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you can’t hear the difference, don’t worry about it and count your blessings. That $300 Yamaha amp is all you’ll ever need.
Me, I’ll just continue to enjoy my PrimaLuna, Krell, and McIntosh amps.
Everybody happy!
Polk doesn’t seem to be a brand that makes much of an impact in the audiophile world. But maybe they make a couple of terrific speakers that can play with the big boys — I don’t profess to know…
A Stereophile review of an affordable speaker from Polk started like this:
Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking: “Polk? You’re reviewing a speaker from Polk? Get ready for the flames!”
And it ended as follows:
It’s a lot of speaker for the money. It never sounded bad—the slight tendency toward warmth and slight loss of HF sparkle were certainly not offensive traits, and could even work in the speaker’s favor when it’s teamed with inexpensive electronics.
You can pick up the hint: that’s a reviewer trying very hard to write nice things about a product he didn’t like.
The magazine also did a more positive review of the $1,200/pr Polk L100s, so I could be talking out of my rear end.
Dynaudio is a legendary brand, but in the end that may not matter. I’d let my ears be the judge.
Hi, how’s the trolling today? Good?
This is a question for r/AskNeurotics.
Wrong sub.
Wrong sub.
Your spelling isn’t in peak form.
It’s peek.
I’m just a bit confused by why people who have so much aesthetic sophistication in one area seem to lack it another
I’m with you. I tried to make my listening room bright and airy, rustic and modern all at once, without too much clutter. The goal was to create a space that despite being dedicated to stereo sound would be pleasant to spend time in even with no music playing (entertaining and such).
I spent maybe $1,000 on the rug, and about $2,000 on all the furniture combined, including the modded equipment console. The couch, included in that tally, was a FB Marketplace purchase. Everything else came from Amazon and Overstock.
The acoustic panels were the biggest expense, at around $4.5K.
For what I was trying to achieve, white walls help, and the acoustic panels are white too so they don’t draw too much attention (I hope). It’s not perfect but most people seem to like it. I do too. :-)
Anyone can tidy up and declutter a little. There, now it already looks twice as good.
Furniture and the like doesn’t have to look terrible even on a low budget. Over time, especially if you look in the classifieds / eBay / Facebook Marketplace etc., you can cobble together a very-nice-looking interior that didn’t set you back much.
OP is right in that most audiophiles don’t seem to care, and that’s puzzling to us. Audiophiles are fussy esthetes when it comes to sound reproduction but then they have a room with cinder blocks and milk crates and Star Wars tchotchkes / Beanie babies everywhere. I don’t get it but…different strokes for different strokes I guess.
That’s an old Alan Parsons quote.
I agree that audiophiles are an obsessive lot, just like true car enthusiasts, oenophiles, and collectors of everything from Chinese porcelain to high-end watches.
But why is price a component of that? Why would a high price tag signify that there’s something wrong with the buyer’s mental state? Why dislike something just because it’s way out of our budget?
My speakers cost double what my new car did. What of it? Most people won’t understand it but I’d like to imagine that the Redditors in r/audiophile do.
Decades ago, a fellow audiophile told me something I won’t forget. Paraphrasing: “There are people who buy expensive paintings. That’s fine, but you can only look at a million-dollar painting, one picture, so many times. Me, I’d rather take one-tenth of that money and build a stereo system that puts me in touch with virtually all the sonic art that’s ever been created.”
I couldn’t argue with that then, and I still can’t.
And when someone drops $133,000 on a turntable, I won’t judge them even if it’s not my cup of tea (I don’t listen to vinyl, for one thing). I’m happy for them.
On a vaguely related note, I’m an atheist. Consequently, I find zero comfort in religion, but my spirit soars when I hear incredible music, from Bach and Philip Glass to Tool and Rage Against the Machine. Music is my path to knowing greatness. It can inspire awe and bring me to tears. For me, perhaps regrettably, that’s not something that happens with an old transistor radio or a $150 Bluetooth speaker. It requires an investment in exceptional gear, which is also my way of honoring the music and the musicians.
Why would anyone have a problem with that?
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