The price is right....or is it?

[nat8808]

At the moment.. but you might play around and find improvements later on.

And anyway, some people will just pay to see brand name components inside their gear or pay to have something different to other people's (they perceive to be superior).

[Marco]

....but I have initially taken the approach of maximum sound for minimum buck

Good man - it's the mantra of AoS!

Marco.

[Mr Kipling]

Perhaps the Croft uses the Teldec (Telefunken/Decca) response curve. This replaces the 75us time constant with a 50us one.

[The Barbarian]

I certainly have no objection to anyone taking that approach but I have initially taken the approach of maximum sound for minimum buck

Yep i personally frown upon people that spend redicularse amounts of dosh on equipment, especially when i know damn well better can be had for cheaper..However we all know that badges & price tags are the most important thing in choice for some people..

[istari_knight]

When all is said & done who is the greater music lover ? The man with 10 albums and a £5K hifi or the man with thousands of albums and a £100 hifi ?

... Neither of course ! Its the guy with thousands of albums and a £5K hifi for he not only loves the music but desires to hear it exactly as the artist intended

[Marco]

I'd put it another way:

Who is the greatest music lover - the man with 500 albums, from his favourite artists, and a £1k system, who plays every one of those albums regularly, and knows them inside out, or the man with 10,000 albums, and a £10k system, who only listens to a small fraction of those albums regularly, and because he's got so many, forgets most of them exist?



The value of the system is irrelevant (as to an extent is the ABSOLUTE SIZE of the music collection); it's how often the latter gets listened to that matters most!

Marco.

[The Barbarian]

I know quite a few proper music lovers all have very large collections all have simple cheap systems.

On a totally different note ever see that programme through the key ole looking around all those famous peoples houses through the years never once did i see a flashy Hi-Fi system.

[The Barbarian]

Marco:

That spooky because i decided a while back that LP's i don't play on a regular basis are not staying & also i will not let my record collection reach more than 100 LP's.. I absolutly do not see the point in hoarding records for large collections sake..

[Macca]

Collecting records for the sake of it is a separate hobby in itself. You can be not bothered about the sound and not even listen to that much music but still be a record collector. I've never collected anything as an end in itself but I can understand the mentality. I'm not sure 100 records would be enough for me though, I could probably cut down to maybe 300 but no less otherwise there is not enough to have a regular rotation without getting bored.

[Gordon Steadman]

Who is the greatest music lover - the man with 500 albums, from his favourite artists, and a £1k system, who plays every one of those albums regularly, and knows them inside out, or the man with 10,000 albums, and a £10k system, who only listens to a small fraction of those albums regularly, and because he's got so many, forgets most of them exist?

Much as I enjoy vinyl, this is one of the joys of a computer based system. My entire collection is laid out with such easy access that I listen to a much greater number of my 'records' than I used to. This in spite of the main Mac not being in the main hi-fi. Listening casually at the desk keeps reminding me of forgotten music which I can then put on the big rig to fully appreciate.