audiomuze wrote: > agreed, and it's surpassed only by stupidity. As a reformed audiophile I have to either disagree or take the fifth ( https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&safe=off&q=take+the+fifth ). Often times the answer to something is hiding in plain sight and all one needs to do is connect the dots in the proper order.
Back in high school and college I learned how to read equipment specifications and then learned how to really read specs and began to see what the manufacturer was trying to hide. My growing distrust of mass market audio moved me towards high end audio, albeit at the "most bang for the buck" end of things, and once again I had to relearn how to specs, which for the most part are badly misused in high end audio, in fact way more than in mass market audio. And then along came computer based digital audio and audio equipment, especially front ends, became more about proper/pure fidelity and less about euphonic coloration. And as I slowly started connecting the dots, I came to distrust much of what is written in the high end audio media. I still understand the need for something better than mass market audio but with today's rapidly rising prices it's more important than ever to find audio equipment that offers great value for the money. Such as the Squeezebox Touch, the best $300 I ever spent on a piece of audio equipment. 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: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 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=105173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
