Shahed has more gear to tell us about!
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024
- This is PART TWO of the Shahed interview.
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“Different, not necessarily better”. The biggest truth on both interviews.
Oftentimes yes….sometimes it really IS better !
He has discovered the law of diminishing returns. In the end, the only person than matters when it comes to the sound of your system is YOU. Thank you Shahed for sharing your journey!/
lovely chap
Very nice to touch on the personal side of the journey. Not only is the journey a quest of equipment, but we should also really enjoy the people and experiences along the way.
Steve - this my my favorite piece you’ve done (and I’m a big fan)!
Shahed - thanks so much for sharing!
thanks!
Hearing about the amp that heated the room over the winter and required a period of air conditioning before the room was tolerable for just a little while in the summer is such a perfect anecdote for this hobby. Great interview, thank you both!
Yep.
Thank you Shaded for sharing your feelings. You gave me a motivation to go deeper in the music, more than in the gear listenning!🙏🏻
Sounds like Shahed is settling in on electronics. Time to start the cables and AC conditioning journey!
Great set of interview. Thanks to both of you!
I noticed in the gear images, that he had multiple, various power/iso products.
Well said
Why didn’t we hear about them. Certainly important.
These two interviews are on par with the Jana interviews. So humble, heartwarming and very, very enlightning. Steve, thank you so much for this content!
What an amazing multiplicity of audio gear Shahed owned through a "brief" audiophile journey up until now.
Lovely conversation.
I like the color of that Audio Note woofer.
Wow, Steve, Dude....... You find the most fascinating people and gear and bring it all to your channel.
This young man has spent an enormous amount of dough on gear,
and made the journey for us so we don't necessarily have to.
Awesome interview. It was like hitching a free ride on the incredibly interesting journey of a music lover and gearhead! It is also great to be reminded that I am not alone in these wonderfully insane and addictive hobby. Thank you Shahed! Thank you Steve! You both please keep at it!!!
Shahed needs to have his own RUclips channel. I'd subscribe in a heartbeat!
This interview was awesome!! Thank you both.
Steve, as others have already pointed out... content like this is superb.
Shahed, thank you for sharing.
thanks!
This very personal sometimes selfish hobby that can be addictive. That said, MUSIC is the antidote. Thank you Shahed for sharing this focusing segment. Keep listening.
Quite the journey, I feel quite sane and reserve after those videos. I have not bought anything for 6 months (2 REL T/5Xs)…but today…in honor of Shahed, I am sending $3500 to Singapore to order a pair of Mono Bloc Amps to replace my 40+ Year-old Bob Carver C-500 Power Amplifier. 😀👍🏼😀
Shahed means Witness. He witnessed this journey through experiencing with gears but you didn’t ask him about the genres of music 🎶 he listens to. I get the feeling that he belongs to the gear oriented camp. After nearly four decades of high end audio business and experiencing with different audio gears, the love of music has always been a “constant”. I love great gears and like anybody else have my own beloved ones or the ones I crave for BUT I have also learned through this unique journey that I truly get the same amount of pleasure through the speakers of my iPhone 📱 X or through my wife’s JBL CHARGE 5. It might sound weird but this is where I am now. Music 🎶 is the Eternal Miracle of our Universe. Audio gears are the essential parts that will hopefully boost this unique pleasure. So I guess I belong to the melted camps of music lovers and audiophile gears.
Good point on the music question. You missed a trick there Steve - maybe one for part 3
@@keplermission4947 شاهد witness شهید martyr
Steve that was one of the best - so refreshing and very informative. More of this style would be great
I can't thumbs down but...yea not for beginners. We don't get Steve's Research... too Candid.
Hi Steve! Wow, great interview as always! Your listening skills are perspiring in the way you listen to your guests! So amazing! Thank you for that. As far as gear lovers vs music lovers, I think this duality takes out of the equation the fact that we are beings that all love sound, and sound is vibrations and vibrations have a healing power that we enjoy very much. Just my 10 cents.
Very interesting audiophile journey that Shahed is being through so many fantastic gears and speakers. I can really understand his way of changing gear and speakers very often. We audiophiles are always searching and making experience, we don't stand still until we find our absolute perfect system and the best sound for ourselves that brings us as near as possible to enjoy our music with perfect happiness. Greetings to you, Steve and Shahed, great interview 👍😁
Great hearing other audiophiles journey! Interesting take on the Sabrina speaker. I auditioned the Sabrina at my dealer here in San Francisco hooked up to a Boulder integrated.
within 5 minutes I too noticed box colorations from the speaker. I really wanted to love this setup so beautiful to look at... but could not get past the issue with box colorations.
I would want to think that with such a high end "prestige" system the sound should be flawless!
Amazing journey and a great interview!
Btw the Rockna DAC is made in Romania (EU)
Those DACs...you could do a segment regarding his take on those alone. How cool!
Great interview! I burned through thousands of bucks in my 20s and 30 searching for something and never satisfied. It saddens me that i forgot to enjoy and appreciate music in my audiophile journey. I’m content with what I have now (mostly budget to midrange gear ) and enjoy listening to the music and not the gear it’s played through. Your experiences resonate with me - but I do wish I had the resources for more exotic hifi gear- thanks!
Excellent interview - thanks
Very enjoyable interview. thanks.
I’m an analog guy and that’s why I love my Lampi Atlantic TRP DAC. He nailed it - approaches the best vinyl sound.
A never-ending quest for better sound. Great interview.
Hey Shaded, happy to see you got into vinyl with the Linn LP12 and started questioning the continuous purchase of new gear. I myself have had a similar experience after buying my first LP12 with the Addict cartridge and Project Tonearm. I was impressed by the musicality of the LP 12 and soon started to upgrade with a better tonearm (Akito), lingo 4 and kandid mc cartridge. The impact was huge. My system never sounded better (a modest Project Tube DS2 pre-amp, a music hall a 25.2 amplifier and tannoy dc2000 speakers) and I started focussing on buying and formost listening to vinyl!
Audio Note... nice.
A track that summarize it - Noting else matters - blacklist
I do disagree with Shahed’s “controversial” philosophy regarding the 6 month temptation to change gear. It doesn’t necessarily stem from boredom of the present system but more from the fact that over time, you will discover the shortcomings of system you are currently listening to. Those little niggles, for examples such as harshness in certain tracks or bass not being as detailed as you first thought etc etc.. These small details are enough for us Aumusiphiles to seek improvements. Is it addictive? Hell Yes! Is it a Rabbit Hole? Even more so!
Just nailed it towards the end of the interview. Chasing the dragon. Humans crave change.
It's never as good as your first high! lol
Would of loved to find out what music Shahed listened to. Loved the interview and hearing how he got to where he is now.
You can't see the world in pictures and find the place you want to live.
Somethings to experience you must go there.
.... but that's what I hear.
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Yeah nice pair of videos, enjoyed’m
My own journey I would describe now, after seeing this wonderful interview, as "Shahed lite". We may be operating on different budgets but the itch and curiosity seems very familiar. Shahed, I am on the LES as well. Would love to hang out sometime and play some records!
Thank you Sahed for sharing your journey with us. I enjoyed all of it. In particular, I think you gave an interesting perspective on the Lampizator DACs. I have been a big fan of Lukas Fikus from before he built the company when he was a prolific blogger on his CDP mods and speaker experiments. I am happy with my all DIY system, but have to admit that it is all inspired by Fikus. Interesting to hear your perspective on how his DHT dacs evolved.
A superb insight! I am more interested in how Shahed's current preamp (AN) fares against Melody Audio preamp that was mentioned. I owned Melody Audio WE2688 pre (also using 101D) for 2 years only to find there isn't much out there (at any price) to match it soundwise. I had to sell it due to exceptionally high gain (20db) and high microphonics, which made it difficult to use in my specific environment...
The guy from Pearl Acoustics has tube amps for winter and class D monoblocks for summer! kinda like that approach. I will allays have 2 systems, but with different kind of gear, and not one big all out system, because my tastes change from time to time.
I was dying to hear his views on the Rocka Wavelight, a dac I’m looking at but there’s hardly any owner/user reviews on the net.
I liked very much this guy! Listening gear from small companies, outside of the usual suspects.
Interesting great video 📹👍
haha no one says my analog is so good it sounds like digital. Good one.
I'm a more of a gear head than a music lover.
However, I don't believe it's an either/or scenario.
One can be a massive gear obsessed audiophile, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 a true blue lover of all things music.
I vacillate between both, ... going down individual rabbit holes pursuing knowledge and preference in four areas of interest, ie., gear, acoustics, optimization, and power delivery.
Other times I'm simply having fun ... enjoying my fave go-to, feel good releases, while exploring the occasional new material.
I have to thank my kids for expanding my range of experience. Over time, they've turned me on to fantastic material that I'd never have even givena chance.
Now, as empty nest'ers, my wife and I don't often get that musical diversity that the kids once gave us. It still occurs, but sadly less frequently than before.
Good for him, thank god in my audiophile journey i never really had a huge amount of disposable
income, if not i would have probably have done the same. I mean i have changed equipment multiple times but i am always conscious of what my wife is going to think. LOL, thats why i got into headphones, easier to change headphones, dacs and head amps than big speakers, pre amps, mono blocks etc. I am sure my wife notice new headphones and change of equipment, but she knows that is my hobby and let me have my toys.
He is spot on about the audiophile addiction, craving for new stuff, agree that at some point we need to just let go and be happy. Dont let Steve full you he is also addicted thats why he is a reviewer so he can satisfy that crave LOL
Joking aside thanks for the video.
I'm sticking to my future 1,000 dollar dream
ROCKNA is made in Romania Lampizator is a polish brand
I would have loved to hear what album/music he used as his reference through his journey.
Yes it is an addiction
The Line Magnetic weighs 100 pounds! I'd have to go to Home Depot and hire a couple guys to help me move it.
If one change gear once a year, it Will not be possible to get to really know that piece of equitment, from my exsperience as and Audiophile through more than 35 years. But hey, who am i to judge? ✌️❤️🇩🇰
As an Owner of a Modright KWH225i Integrated Hybrid Amp .. I can attest to How woNderful Dan Wright’s equipment is ..
LM805ia/508ia doesn’t just produce 48W…it produces 48 SET watts. So sweet.
Tell me more tell me more... (Grease)
The gentleman hasn’t found his karma. He has a long way to go to be happy with the sound reproduction. As if he’s analysing each part of the frequency range. But keep on, the dealers should be very happy. But if it makes him happy…!
So basically stick with Macintosh
Shahed, please start a RUclips channel
Well that story on the LineMagnetic is , sorry to say, rubbish ! I live on a pretty warm climate and my friend run this amp all the time and in no way it is a "room heater" , that's insane to say that !
So the all interview lost credibility for me.