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Re: Musical Fidelity and Recommended Components

Posted by John Atkinson (R) on May 17, 2004 at 15:20:53

In Reply to: Musical Fidelity and Recommended Components posted by allmodcons on May 17, 2004 at 07:39:08:

>It seems to me that the entry level is key to attracting new comers
>to our hobby, especially in these days of $500 HTIB's and iPods.

I agree.

> I find it hard to believe that there is nothing out there for
> someone that wants to get in to the high end without the
> inflexibilty of an integrated amp...

Yet that's the way it is. There's a good choice of amps and preamps
once you break the $1000 barrier and at $2000 and above, audio has
never offered more performance for less money. But while speakers
costing about the same as week's groceries continue to get much
better -- give the Epos ESL-3 a listen, or the Infinity Primus 150,
both recently reviewed in Stereophile -- cheap amplifiers and
especially CD players have both become commoditized and have become
sonic underachievers that there seems little point in reviewing them.

What I fail to understand is why true high-end, cheap control
centers, like the McCormack Micro Line Drive, never caught on.
That was a treu bargain!

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

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