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I know of one chap who bought a £10K CDP and then spent the next 6 months trying to off load it. Even at the last noticed price of £2,900 there were no takers.
This got me thinking. Maybe it as a badge thing for many of the audiophools. To be able to post a pic in a forum gallery showing all that expensive gear stacked on top of each other.
As they say:, 'Nail, head'! Oh, and I hope you aren't referring to me recently posting pictures of my system on a forum for the first time in about 5 years :eyebrows: ;)
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Forgetting the reasons I wanted this player even before switching it on - the construction, the feel of the controls, the Nagra badge [WTF?? :mental:] - and trying hard not to be seduced by the operation of the tray, I knew this player would hit me as hard as Liv Tyler in a sheer negligee. Sometimes, you just sense what's going to happen. It only took the gorgeous, open, smooth and enveloping sound of Mofi's new gold CD of Marc Cohn's eponymous debut to demonstrate he CDP's worthyness as part of the Nagra family.
What's that all about? Can someone please enlighten me? Hi-fi equipment for me is a tool to do a particular job - nothing more, nothing less. You want the best tools you can afford to do the job of course, but hi-fi equipment and its 'feel' or 'badge' is not something you have a love affair with!!
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I had a few visitors round over the new year. One of them looked at my TT and asked why I still had it in my rack. He hadn't seen anyone play vinyl for more than a decade. Then he looked at my NS1000M and commented that Yamaha speakers were no good. I should get some KEf or B&W. I quickly realized this guy was being educated by what he read in hifi mags.
It's that kind of nonsensical thinking and superficial image of hi-fi which AOS is the complete antithesis of. Hopefully as our Google ratings continue to significantly increase daily, and we're being exposed more and more to the outside world, what's written here might start rubbing off on the uninitiated...