jh901 wrote: > If you are content with decade old tech and what would now be mid-fi > sound quality, then that is fine. What isn't ok is spending five > minutes on hours and hours of reading and then bashing products which > you don't understand. Seriously, let's try to have some intelligent > discourse.
"Decade old tech"? How about century old tech, as in the vacuum tube, which was invented in 1904. Audiophiles are still going gaga over the sounds of tubes so if a few of us here like the sound of our 10 year old Transporters I really don't see the harm. As for hyperbole, have you looked the covers of any of the various high end audio magazines over the years? Words like "revolutionary", "ultimate", "paradigm", "state of the art", "radical", "extraordinary" and "cutting edge" grace these covers so often that I'm absolutely amazed that there remains any room for even the slightest improvement in any audio equipment. Over just the past two years I would guess that the high end audio world has seen (and heard) the ultimate power amp, the ultimate pre-amp, the ultimate DAC, the ultimate speakers, the ultimate interconnects and the ultimate speaker wire at least a dozen times. It's gotten so bad that even poor Chicken Little would be embarrassed. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
