My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
That's a very good point. But again, my contention is that it is one thing to tweak and improve a component in one's home, and a completely different thing to mass produce that same component. Mass production is riddled with its own issues, hence the need for stringent quality control. And that process costs a lot of money. The cost is then being passed on to the consumer.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
The supposedly intellectual posts were up to a point very interesting, but I think the English a little clumsy which sabotaged my comprehension. I'll try again tomorrow.
Seems to me that metaphors are an odd animal, and which can take us away from a rigorous understanding; I am dumfounded that looking at different things in a different sphere can apparently further our understanding in the one we are dealing with.
It is vital to ordinate money in design to place it where it is most beneficial to the effectiveness of final result, and possible to waste it on irrelevance. I question Magico's use of airframe tolerances in their speaker cabinets; is that really an appropriate use of technology?
This what I was saying. Of course it is not going to make any difference but it looks great in the sales brochure. Hi-fi is full of this sort of thing.
Cars are not so different. One US manufacturer discovered about 20 years ago that it was losing sales to a rival. The reason? The rival had more cup holders, and one of the first questions people would ask when they came to look at the car in the showroom was 'How many cup holders does it have?'
People who buy cars based solely on the driving performance, and people who buy hi-fi purely on the sound quality, are very rare. So rare that the manufacturers have no interest in them as a demographic.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
There is apparently, a 'law of diminishing interest'.