In many cases that is true. I have a pair of Magnepan speakers over 30 years old that still sounds great.
Absolutely - the delight I derive from using a century-old wooden plane in my three-century old house is immense.
I think that's the thing. If you're able and prepared to throw time & money at something you can make a big step up. But once you've done that it's back to incremental gains you don't need anywhere except in your head.
Apparently not in California. You have to keep up with the news fella. It's all changed out there. Men can get pregnant and have periods. It's apparently a thing now.
Some people just think that new is better, whatever it is, I know, got friends like that...I am sticking to what I got, tried some newer stuf, but found it not improving my listening, sold it. It's about the music not the gear, if the gear is good, no need to spent money, that how I think about it.
I like to experiment, without spending a tonne of money, build a speakercabinet, just for fun and things like that, i stopped looking for better sound a long time ago.
I like to experiment, without spending a tonne of money, build a speakercabinet, just for fun and things like that, i stopped looking for better sound a long time ago.
No bluetooth but yes to USB pendrives on DOS and USB card in PCI slot. Suffices for me.
I forgot to mention mono VGA monitor CRT 9 inches. Small enough to accomodate it elsewhere.
You may have a valid point here.
Humans are complex, and each one does/contributes the best within his/her abilities.
MEN can´t.
Posing as one is irrelevant; I can pose as an eagle and yet not fly better than a brick.
Please avoid Politics in these threads.
Because Biology (a Science) it´s not.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That is hilarious.
Men love challenges we strive to better ourselves by building a better product and the reward is the accomplishment.
I essentially agree with your thesis. Especially, about most new products (subjectively) being 'sideways' moves. My own audiophile journey has been a search to more closely approach a convincingly live sounding in-home reproduction illusion. To provide reproduction which, ultimately, sounds indistinguishable from the live acoustic event, had I been there to hear it. (Leaving for a different discussion, the valid and difficult question of how would I know what the original event sounded like.) As long as the goal of a convincingly live sounding reproduction remains unattained, or proven impossible to attain, the search to find it continues. Which is not to suggest that I don't enjoy my present, obviously reproduced, sounding, playback. Just the same, it does bother me is that we will never move substantially closer to the goal than we already are. At the least, not without some major paradigm change in recording/reproduction approach. In other words, currently established recording/playback technology paths simply may never deliver a convincing auditory illusion. Digital, was thought to be that key paradigm change when it was introduced. Yet, some 40 years after it's introduction in 1983, the search continues. Perhaps, a paradigm like Ambisonics offers the potential for providing a very large step toward attaining the realism goal, but I don't know, having never auditioned it.
Objectively, a modern audio signal transfer chain already exceeds commonly accepted human auditory thresholds, particularly, when it comes to solid-state amplification. The most flawed link in terms of acoustic-event to ear signal transfer, and perhaps the most key link to a convincing playback illusion are obviously the electro-acoustic transducers, microphones, and especially consumer loudspeakers. Perhaps, once consumer loudspeaker performance also exceeds human detection thresholds, that will prove the key to unlocking a convincing auditory illusion, who knows? In the meanwhile, however, it seems increasingly like the continual objective perfection of the recording/playback signal transfer path between the transducers is fruitless. Capable of providing an undetectable 'sideways' movement in reproduction realism.
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And don't forget to upgrade the USB Cable for a mere £400 (on the same HFN site). When I was a teenager that magazine was serious about real tests!
I was thrilled recently to find a seller on eBay located just a few miles from me who has drivers for my Yamaha NS1000 speakers, and at an affordable price. I don't think I could ever want better (though I've always had a hankering for Quad electrostatics). I have replaced crossover caps and fitted proper cable terminals, and the best 'upgrade' was to make a pair of very solid stands - after my cat had pushed one of the speakers to the floor cracking that precious beryllium (yes, big, strong cat! And too small stands). They date from the mid 70's and they were in a terrible state when I got them really cheap (needing a new bass driver and a tweeter). I was told by the seller that they belonged to Freddie Mercury who did not like the studio black so took a belt sander to them.
Another thought- Ken Kessler is still reviewing for HFNRR, as he was 45 or so years ago, how good is his hearing I wonder? I remember reading a review of his where he was a guest of a speaker designer and had, he recounted, several whiskies before the listening session.
Wow, so, you don’t accidentally have an extra zero (or two) inserted in that price figure? It’s 21 thousand dollars?! For PS Audio brand cables?
