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In Reply to: I'll keep it in mind posted by bartc on January 23, 2006 at 06:12:59:
The budget for my system has never been huge and I love to push the limits of deminishing returns and find those bang for the buck solutions too. Like I said I most admire those who get the best sound with the least. My system is the result of 30 plus years of slow changes and buying mostly used. I was able to buy a mint condition tube amp that was only a few months old for a small fraction of list. I added a couple hundred bucks from the sale of my old amp. You know how it goes.I think it takes a lot more thought and know how to set up a real budget system and get good sounding results from it than to just be able to throw unlimited amounts of money at it. I have heard, and I am sure many of the rest of us have heard very expensive systems that make you wonder why they bother. In some cases the owners seem to enjoy the sound of these rigs. In that case I'm happy for them. In the other cases where they just never get there it's a little sad. These are often the people who have the greatest scorn for us "tweakers". That next mega buck component upgrade is going to fix everything!
I have been thinking of selling most everything but my speakers(no one would pay me anything for them anyway and I don't have that much money invested in them)and buying a used Rotel 1072 CD player and a used Rotel 1062 integrated amp or maybe some NAD gear. I could ear mark some of the money I would clear for tweaking and experimanting and invest the rest of the money into something more responsible(resonsible isn't always that much fun). I think I might even listen to this econo rig more. I would never have the thought in the back of my head that I'm just wasting tube life if I turn it on for a quick listen and then have to turn it back off before I even get the thing warmed up. This little rig would always be ready and waiting to go at a moments notice.
I may very well take a few pages from your tweak book Bart.
The Oyaide is in place and ready to go.
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Follow Ups
- it might be time for down sizing myself - Keith Lockwood 10:13:32 01/23/06 (1)
- My tweak book isn't very large... - bartc 12:29:50 01/23/06 (0)
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