Quicken;148013 Wrote: > You see IMHO this is just not true at all. The biggest audiophile > community I am aware of is head-fi: the kind of place people will spend > thousands of dollars on a set of headphones (take your pick on the > brand), hundreds of dollars on a headphone amp, a thousand dollars on a > Lavry black DAC, and 20 dollars on a Chaintech AV-710 sound card for > their computer. Why? Because, when you mod it, the Chaintech produces > bit-perfect output though it's digital out, and when you've got a good > DAC that's all you need. The kind of people who would buy the > transporter are the kind of people who frequent head-fi, and you know > what? - they read the reviews. Sound quality is everything to > audiophiles - especially computer audiophiles. Sometimes it needs to > come from an esoteric brand high-end brand, but only because nobody > else is doing it. If you can get the same thing for 20$ that other > people are paying 500$ for, you're laughing all the way to the > listening room. And you know what - who cares if it says *tech on it? > You buy it to listen to, not read. > > Q
Well said. And the average age of poster on head-fi seems younger than most audiophiles: I'd say that part of the hobby actually has a future. -- totoro _____________________________________________ squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
