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I am in lust, an elephantine must, the crazies for the Avid Acutus SP Reference turntable($29,000), the new Avid arm($15,500) and a Kiseki Purple Heart cartridge($3,500.).
What can a (really) poor boy ethically do? I can't sell my body-I turned 78 yesterday-and I'm too chicken to rob. Wont somebody take pity on this impoverished audio nut?
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Put on a record and have the redhead tell you good it sounds.
Check Hifishark.
Used ones are a lot cheaper.
Did you have similar lust when you were 33 and 45?
Sorry could not resist! I am praying for Clearaudio Signature.
Cheers
Bill
Only cure is to remember that it's about the music, not the quest for ever more superb equipment and marginally better sound. Really great gear makes an audible difference, I'll concede. It keeps me in business. But when it comes to enjoying music itself, it's not all that important. I'm 78 too. We're supposed to have acquired wisdom by now.
Pray for the USA instead, pray for its national conscience.
nt
"Wont somebody take pity on this impoverished audio nut?"
Impoverished audio nut, really? Too old to lie about age but not tax returns? :^)
Wish I was 78 again, knowing what I know now (I turned 80 in July)!
$200,000 digital front end/headphone setup. After all, you don't want to upset your wife....even though she is thirteen rooms down the hall....he he.http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/08/msb-select-dac-ii-impactletter.html
I just turned 69 so am a child by comparison. Actually, everyone thinks I am in my 40s.....one the phone.....look slightly (he he) older in person.
Edits: 01/26/17
That's why I attend audio shows..... Can't afford the exotica, but at least it can still be experienced.........
Semi-serious, anyway. You say you're 78 years young. How much longer
are you gonna hang on? Let's say 10 years. That 'table/arm/cart is
about $50k. Amortized over 10 years, that's about $500 per month,
including interest, on the loan you'll have to take out to get this rig.
Can you swing that for 10 years? If not, get yourself a new $2k 'table
rig, something from Rega maybe. At age 78, your hearing's probably shot
anyway, so you wont be able to hear the differences (should there
actually be any) between the $50k rig and the $2k rig.
But if you just can't get this rig off your mind, ask yourself: what's
worse, wanting something or getting it.
Jack D II-
the things that you are experiencing makes our hobby wonderful. We are never really quite through building our systems- are we?
How do you like the CJ & Quicksilver combo?
nt
all the best,
mrh
take the risk and work on getting the gumption to rob a bank....visualize the Avid atop your audio rack. You can make it happen!
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
Don't sell yourself short ;)
one for you
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
The current price of a Clearaudio Statement with Goldfinger cartridge is a cool $185,000. :)
CDs.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Harry used to keep a core collection of CDs and vinyl in high play rotation situated by the main racks.
its my dream rig if i win the lottery.....of course i guess you have to buy a ticket
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
...your chances are pretty much the same.
it's fun to nudge and watch the upper structure gimbal. :)
It's risky though and illegal in the US.
-Rod
Yesterday I had to watch as my Holy Grail Trombone slipped, once again, through my impoverished fingers.
The same horn my Cleveland Orchestra teacher used and I stared lustfully at during my lessons. Double valve, Cleveland-made Reynolds, 10 1/2" copper bell...sigh.
They're getting rarer and I, at age 70 are getting poorer.
go to a live event
Make up a good story about how you only have a few years left and this is your lifetime dream.
Or maybe you could get them to throw in the Koetsu cart. for free.
I gave up on vinyl in the mid 90s and have never looked back.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
...they are both great ...except for those times when they suck.
Nothing is perfect.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
In contrast to my good bud Mike below, I do maintain contact with the vinyl world via shows (or when I wander into a shop and the salesman grabs me by the lapels and, with an other-worldly look in his eyes, intones the word, "vinyl" - and then starts demo'ing the the latest Nirvana-inducing advance in LP playback!). I just shrug my shoulders and start telling him, "Gee - that's some really swell sound you got there. REALLY swell!" (as I slowly back out of the store). ;-)
...me, too.
But not because I thought digital sounds better, just that it's much more convenient and I was listening to it more.
And I decided that if I was going to enjoy digital, I needed to not listen to analog anymore because it sounded better.
...I don't think digital is better or necessarily cheaper but it's a WHOLE LOT more convenient.
Not so sure about that just listened to a system with a $30k dac
My experience is just the opposite, as it was when I was listening to more vinyl 15 years ago and recently got my TT up and running. Vinyl is just more enjoyable. The idea that digital is somehow "better" yeah it probably measures better and can sound better on certain recordings but generally never engages me "better", just more convenient.
As a non-audiophile music friend noted quite recently "cd's sound synthetic, records sound more natural".
Meanwhile digital has continued to improve and in terms of accuracy of reproduction it is superior to vinyl and, perhaps, analog in general.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
Well I would certainly agree that digital has and is becoming more natural/accurate to the extent we can measure and hear such things however I would question your premise that vinyl "filters" the sound by the very nature of the medium. Actually digital is the one that provides layers of filtering. In any case I haven't heard some of the very latest examples of digital technology which might certainly change my opinion but probably at a cost out of my realm. I would love to listen to the DCS Rossini as an example.
nt
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
MBL Radialstrahler mbl 101 E MKII are my lust for product if I has an audiophile Sugar Daddy.
So please feel free to PM me where to send them, Daddy...
I promise to not get drool on them
That, or whip out the Amex BLACK!
Kiseki? Pfft...Lyra Atlas and throw in the tubed BAT gear.Were around $100K and haven't considered speakers and cables yet.
.
Find a good book and read. At your age (mine getting there), you won't be able to tell the difference between your ideal, and a VPI Traveler. You'd probably be more successful with a 23 year old playmate.
Used to love to read. Now.. LARGE PRINT is the only stuff I can stand to read whole books.
Most of the stuff I want to read is in teeny tiny print.
Schitt.
Well, I'm not greedy. I already have an Ayon 07s, C-J CT5 pre and Quicksilver 88 monos and Reference 3A Grand Veenas so one tiny, teeny 'lAvid doesn't seem too much to ask. However you cant have it when I'm dead. It goes in the casket along with the rest of my equipment and a whole lot of records and cds. Sorry. Dont mean to be so stingy.
The hardest thing in life is getting old. My father is 97, is mentally sharp, but his body is increasingly disappointing him. This getting old is not for feint of heart. My suggestion is don't just sit around....volunteer at your local school, museum, etc. Fill your life with new contacts, smiles, and purpose. Music seems important to you - take lessons....its easy to rent a violin, clarinet, flute.... I wish much happiness for you,
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