Hhmm… good question.
I've got 16 days 15hrs in my itunes folder, all bought as cd, and about 1500 bits of vinyl.
On the other side of the equation I've invested about £2,700 in my stereo.
BUT had I bought my amps etc new and purchased the speakers instead of building them it would be somewhere north of £15,000.
I've got 16 days 15hrs in my itunes folder, all bought as cd, and about 1500 bits of vinyl.
On the other side of the equation I've invested about £2,700 in my stereo.
BUT had I bought my amps etc new and purchased the speakers instead of building them it would be somewhere north of £15,000.
Yes, hurray for me! I already have one cabinet finished (minus the finish). I had some started that are just right for the job. the donors are visible in the second pic.
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Damn, and I thought I was cheap!
Um, well.. cough, cough. I wasn't going to go there.
I do not have all the music I've ever bought, tho. Like an idiot I sold all my vinyl years ago for a pittance. And I've had 100+ CDs stolen several times.Now in the computer age I could sell off all my CDs and still have all the music, tho I have no desire to do so at the moment. Could also sell off all the extra audio gear and still have the present system. But where's the fun in that??
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(Mmm, secondhand audio gear or used women, dilemma)
Mine was the total hifi expenditure.
Thinking about it, make it £400.
I've spent much more than this on guitaring.
Chris
Dont get me wrong, $600 is all I have left 🙄
I was rocking a $6k Quad 99 system2 years. Then throw in some unmedicated bipolar mania and I have an old Kenwood KA-405 amp, Marantz ST450 tuner, my iMac for digital, small DAC and a pair of (Wharfedale 104's sold yesterday) minimus 7's.
New speakers are on their way though and I'm waiting on some carbon fibre to make a LT arm for my DD TT
I don't think the tube forum IS the busiest...especially if you consider the Pass and PA are ss.
my wife can never know how much i spent on gear and music , i told her the last amp i bought costed me 150$ when it costed me 1000$ , glad she knows nothing about hifi...
No I reckon your wife wouldnt be happy.... She doesnt understand our love for things! (I spent over $200 getting another AMP that sounded as good as my original one that went bad and still its not 100% I dont think.. (Although last night when I watched ON GOLDEN POND it was thankfully warm/beautiful sounding)
I am grateful my VCR is not HIFI .. I love and enjoy the reg linear audio..... I love analogue and I have heard HI-FI <<>> Sounds thinner (Like digital) and I dont wanna hear that...... I want analogue warmth..... (Sometimes the linear audio sounds like that also if its digitally processed which is why im so selective when I get movies and all.....)
I do not like HI-FI sound really so for me its THE BEST THAT SOUNDS TO YOU.....Boscoe said:
I am grateful my VCR is not HIFI .. I love and enjoy the reg linear audio..... I love analogue and I have heard HI-FI <<>> Sounds thinner (Like digital) and I dont wanna hear that...... I want analogue warmth..... (Sometimes the linear audio sounds like that also if its digitally processed which is why im so selective when I get movies and all.....)
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My experience is that women hate hi-fi and everything to do with hi-fi. I do not know why this is so.
Women think newer = better ALWAYS. I rarely let a woman into my workshop, and when I do I'm always sorry. Bitch and criticize is all they do. A brand new Coby (the cheapest of the cheap) integrated system is automatically better than my vintage collection of equipment, JUST BECAUSE.
And don't offer to fix anything for a woman. All they care about is that it's done and done fast. You'll never score any gratitude points by fixing a woman's car etc. It's just what took so long? Why did it cost so much?
It's a cruel prank by nature, I tell ya. Or maybe it's incomplete evolution. I'm just glad I'm a man I guess.
Seems like you might be hanging out with the wrong women?? 😉
My wife is no audiophile, and would probably be content with a Coby all in one, but she has never made a disparaging comment about my stereo - she finds it rather intimidating and likes to horrify her friends with tales of the acquisition of all of the expensive bits & bobs.. She loves to tell them stories of "$5000 phono needles" and rare exotic tubes, and my "allowance." 😛 Brings her great joy.
She's always happy when I fix something, and doesn't drive. She didn't criticize me for buying a Mercedes E350 either... We've been together for 13 years and married for 10. It's not always easy, but the dialog has nothing to do with cars or stereo..
My wife is no audiophile, and would probably be content with a Coby all in one, but she has never made a disparaging comment about my stereo - she finds it rather intimidating and likes to horrify her friends with tales of the acquisition of all of the expensive bits & bobs.. She loves to tell them stories of "$5000 phono needles" and rare exotic tubes, and my "allowance." 😛 Brings her great joy.
She's always happy when I fix something, and doesn't drive. She didn't criticize me for buying a Mercedes E350 either... We've been together for 13 years and married for 10. It's not always easy, but the dialog has nothing to do with cars or stereo..
I am driven to DIY, if I buy it rather than build it I lose interest. I've gone near my limit with house renovations twice I paid for architects designs done on speculation of getting the job and told them thanks but now I'll DIY it. They both thought I was nuts, but I did it (in one case it was near insanity). Both of my son's have inherited my first principle when it comes to home renovation you have to be totally fearless.
Cars are one exception I just don't care though I bought my wife an Audi Q7 for Christmas. BTW I have no budget I'm just self regulating.
Cars are one exception I just don't care though I bought my wife an Audi Q7 for Christmas. BTW I have no budget I'm just self regulating.
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There's a guy here who builds his cartridges from scratch (Bulgin) which is more than a bit beyond me, otherwise I too am almost entirely DIY. My last digital effort was expensive and IMO not entirely satisfactory so I settled on the practical and convenient + good sounding HAP-Z1ES as a replacement for altogether too many boxes. (4!) I might have to try again someday. My first house was a diy nightmare, the second continues to be a work in progress that will get more attention when I retire. 🙂
Audi Q7, hmmm, that's a great Christmas present! Perfect for our roads and climate. I am largely self regulating on the budget side of things these days, but the allowance is a convenient way of not having to explain/justify a purchase to my wife. I really was not very good with money when I was younger, my wife has taught me how to be good with money and instilled a certain level of discipline in me.
Think we're all on that quest to some extent or other. For me (I'm a fossil) HI-FI still to some extent signifies truth relative to the original recording. The food stamp cartoon made me laugh, I knew someone who was very much that way.
Hmmm...
Having played around a lot at the other end of the production chain, I've given up on any pretence of HiFi. The reason is this: the same microphone in different places on the same instrument will result in different sounds. Some differences are subtle, some are very obvious. All of them still sound like that instrument. Which one is right?
Now multiply those possibilities by the endless mic shootouts, trying to pick the perfect one for each source.
... Then there are those that honestly, truly believe that a different mic pre-amp will match that particular mic better. There are also cable guys, just like in HiFi.
After all of that messing around, playing each position/mic/preamp combination back through some very very nice speakers, and choosing the one that reflect the vision of someone (producer, artist, engineer, whoever), then put each channel through a bewildering array of EQ/compression/reverb/multi-band compression, spend aaaaages getting the most perfect mix and then they smash the resultant mix through a series of 5 to 20:1 limiters (three or four of those), apply some multi-band compression, and then release it.
It usually sounds pretty good at the end of the day, but most finished music is nowhere near what the microphone was picking up. Or was it that other microphone..?
In short, hang the sense of it. There aren't many recordings that are well done enough to make it sound like the musicians are there in front of me, and a tiny fraction of those are music I'd enjoy listening to much.
What I want is a stereo that's detailed enough to appreciate well-done music if it comes along, but also enjoyable enough that you can crank Bon Jovi on a Saturday night and enjoy that, too.
Current setup: 3.5mm jack into a QSC TM16 mixing desk (takes care of EQ and crossovers, and you've got a volume control via tablet), out to a pair of Behringer B3030A monitors (6" plus ribbon, active), and also a Behringer EP1500 that's driving a pair of JBL GTO1214s in a 15" cube. I like it. The monitors are nice enough to appreciate a well-done recording, though the midrange does fall off when you go off-axis. The sub hits 20Hz pretty well when EQ'd.
I'm pretty happy with that setup. Its not perfect (I think the B3030A monitors leave a bit on the table through the midrange), but it is a pretty good sound.
Chris
Having played around a lot at the other end of the production chain, I've given up on any pretence of HiFi. The reason is this: the same microphone in different places on the same instrument will result in different sounds. Some differences are subtle, some are very obvious. All of them still sound like that instrument. Which one is right?
Now multiply those possibilities by the endless mic shootouts, trying to pick the perfect one for each source.
... Then there are those that honestly, truly believe that a different mic pre-amp will match that particular mic better. There are also cable guys, just like in HiFi.
After all of that messing around, playing each position/mic/preamp combination back through some very very nice speakers, and choosing the one that reflect the vision of someone (producer, artist, engineer, whoever), then put each channel through a bewildering array of EQ/compression/reverb/multi-band compression, spend aaaaages getting the most perfect mix and then they smash the resultant mix through a series of 5 to 20:1 limiters (three or four of those), apply some multi-band compression, and then release it.
It usually sounds pretty good at the end of the day, but most finished music is nowhere near what the microphone was picking up. Or was it that other microphone..?
In short, hang the sense of it. There aren't many recordings that are well done enough to make it sound like the musicians are there in front of me, and a tiny fraction of those are music I'd enjoy listening to much.
What I want is a stereo that's detailed enough to appreciate well-done music if it comes along, but also enjoyable enough that you can crank Bon Jovi on a Saturday night and enjoy that, too.
Current setup: 3.5mm jack into a QSC TM16 mixing desk (takes care of EQ and crossovers, and you've got a volume control via tablet), out to a pair of Behringer B3030A monitors (6" plus ribbon, active), and also a Behringer EP1500 that's driving a pair of JBL GTO1214s in a 15" cube. I like it. The monitors are nice enough to appreciate a well-done recording, though the midrange does fall off when you go off-axis. The sub hits 20Hz pretty well when EQ'd.
I'm pretty happy with that setup. Its not perfect (I think the B3030A monitors leave a bit on the table through the midrange), but it is a pretty good sound.
Chris
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