I've got to say that I've found reading through this thread fascinating. I caught the 'audiophile' bug when I was about 13, when the best I could do was purchase repaired bits of very non-high end hi-fi from a shop near my home, purchased with paper-round money.
Over the years my 'upgrade syndrome' (a phrase coined by a non hi-fi friend) ended up with me having MF Nu-vista 3D cd player, M3 amp, Sonus Faber Extrema speakers and Kimber Select interconnects and speaker cable. Oh and a wife that thinks I'm mental. I'd got to the point where I was genuinely satisfied with my system and stopped having any desire to change it apart from adding my SB3 to the line-up. I could get into the debate over whether the SB3 outperforms my CD player etc. but as far as I'm concerned, the SB is the bit of kit that has enhanced my enjoyment of music more than any other, by freeing my music from dusty shelves. At the end of the day, while I do care deeply about sound quality, being able to enjoy my music is what counts most to me. Perhaps I was never really an audiophile in the first place. P.S. For what it's worth, I think that comparing any equipment without blind testing is ridiculous. I recall A/B testing a Sony CD player against a 'flavour of the month' player which was getting lots of good press at the time, and which also 'looked the business'. I'll let you guess which one I and a fellow hi-fi nut thought was the best, until we redid the tests wearing a pair of Virgin Atlantic eyeshades that is..... -- hifisteve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hifisteve's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
