The empirical audiophile
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- The empirical audiophile
Don't think just because your equipment is older that it no longer sounds as good as the modern equipment. The 2024 Axpona is a great place to hear the newest and best equipment out there. But it doesn't mean that it's supersedes the equipment you may have today.
Love my fish & my HI FI. They go together like peaches & cream.
Good to see you professor 🙂 Here’s a postulation: Good equipment had to sound better back in the ‘40s ’50s and ‘60s because the noise floor of life was a lot lower and personal standards a lot higher!
Interesting !
I was in a hi-end shop with my girlfriend, who doesn't know what HI-FI is, we were listening to a 70000 euro/USD system, she said "what you have at home is better than this", and I had a Philips CD player/amplifier and AR speakers, all from the 80s
I find joy in learning.
All the tricks and tech solutions and grow with my learning.
Then implement and test what does what and it influence.
Basically a DIY and can make equipment that really make a diffrence. And I can cherry pick and make my own solution with all the goodies.
And not a vendor that do one special stuff and another vendor that do the same component but with another special technicall solution..
Yes I have done the same thing. With a new hifi frend. I listen in his system and in my head i analyzed the signal chain and where its greatest weakneses were..
And later on i gave him component after component (as a audiophile and DIY you always have stuff laying around..).
And even I got little bit chocked what a sound quality improvement each component swap out did in his system!
But as a DIY you learn faster what component contribute/rob to the sound quality and what they do with their capability.😅
My friends are always amazed at just how good my amps from the 80s sound
those were the times when all companies tried to do the best they could
Amps got good a long time ago.
Audiophile gear prices are out of control!!!!
there's really expensive stuff as there always has been,
but the 'entry level' is cheaper and better than it's ever been.
and there's more options and more routes to used gear, as well as more and better reviews
What is not under the socialist democrats when companies are regulated and taxed to death the customer always pays for it not the company
Entertaining indeed with a few caveats and a lot of truth. 😄
The EMI 62 speakers are the best I have heard in my 79 years and they cost $80 each new in the late 1960s. Natural sound. Separation of instruments in symphony Orchestra, probaby because of superior transient response .
I think Hi end is total "King's new clothes"
Have you listened to the Tandberg receivers?
You're right about efficient speakers and low Watts for power I have a bell tube receiver I restored it's 12 watts per Channel it's wonderful it sounds fantastic most people never heard of Bell I found it on the curb years agoJust for fun on RUclips check out PJ Harvey big day out it's a short concert that rocks have a good day
Thanks for sharing your wisdom, I have learned a lot. What do you think about Schiit audio gear? I have Klipsch heresy 3
Thanks
Schiit audio is great.
Any audiophiles ever heard of flat frequency response ?
Emperical life experience so reel ...........to share ...................thank you .
I worked with tubes a lifetime and serviced for high end stores ......today I see all those fake beliefs not based on reel knowledge of a lifetime experience .......
Tubes and high sensitivity speakers ( of quality ) still are king in musical expression and emotion.
Many new tube amplifiers are only rubbish and not build with the old school experience and knowledge ..........but the market piushes to buy .
I viewed a video lately ( Stereo police ) ..........and I couldn't stop laughing to the mindset of those new " experts "............
Kind regrds
If a person hasn't spent at least $50,000 on their kit, I can't really be seen with them. 🤣
This hobby comes down to the law of diminishing returns! You can spend thousands for a little improvement in sound quality. The vintage gear appeals to me.
Or thousands for no improvement or worse sound!
@@joedeegan3870 That's true!
Yes, older equipment (and cars for that matter) can be better. On the flip side, based on trickle-down technology, newer manufacturing processes have produced very good (AS IN VERY GOOD) sounding equipment in the $500 to $5K MSRP range, which years ago typically would have cost much more.
Thanks for the video I've been listening to music since I was a little kid I'm old I've been fixing stereo since I was 10 I learned a lot of different stuff in my life I recently listened to a pair of Wilson speakers I wasn't impressedThey didn't sound that good in my neighbor was along and he's only 24 so his hearing is a little better than mine but I can still hear good he agreed they didn't sound that good my Western electric speakers sound better than them and they're old as the cave I'll keep my old junk I'm not against new stuff but that's just overpriced junk ever since several new moving coil cartridges I wasn't impressed I have an old Diamond vector cartridge that sounds fantasticI got some Audio-Technica cartridges that sound fantastic have a great day keeps me inspired keep listening
I have an Audio Technica M95 with the eliptical stylus and it is fantastic.
I see the aquarium behind you. Is it fresh water? I’m looking to start one about that same size but struggling to get it working.
Yes, we are a few that like HiFi and aquariums. Mr Novak has another channel for aquariums and ponds.
Call him self for @anoxicfiltrationplenums
EA, Please find more reasons to post videos. Best, D.
Why a receiver? Do you listen to FM ?