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In Reply to: Linn aiming for high end posted by smart845 on April 25, 2007 at 11:16:29:
are going. Manufacturing in Scotland is bleeding to death.
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20 engineers!They haven't came up with much worthwhile stuff since the CD12.
...and the last good speakers they made were the Kans and Briks it seems.
I was stuck by DevilEars comments as well.Let's talk about engineers first. I have a lot of respect for the best and brightest, but Linn is mostly known for the LP-12 and how many does it take to cost reduce and maintain the product? Over time, you get a lot of bloat.
Now back to the Devil, is 2-channel dead? No way! iPods prove it. The younger generation is as much into music as ever.
So then the question is where is high end audio or audio in general, going to be in 2 or 5 or 10 years. Digital baby. Network servers will hold the collection and it'll be beamed wirelessly through the house.
I haven't quite found the product yet, but what I'd like is a network attached storage device with 1TB, expandable to 2TB, with RAID and a wireless, secure connection to wireless access points with a great DACs. Sonus has the access thing already but they includes amps built in, so it's expensive but slick. Add remotes to distribute and control play lists to various locations and you've got the future.
-Rod
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Hey Rod,
The squeezebox does look interesting. I've got a network connection right next to the rack and a decent DAC though I really wish it had a USB output. After I get the next credit card bill with $1,600 in car repairs this month, I suspect I'll pick one up and try it.
-Rod
Hey Rod,Some people really dig the squeeze box approach, and there are mods that are supposed to improve the digital out. But for $300 it seems like what you were asking for more or less.
"There is no source but vinyl and Linn is its name"!! :-))Regards,
Hey ANdy,I probably should have said the Slim Devices Squeezebox...
Anyhow, I am SOOOOO glad I never got into vinyl. Sure, it can sound great, maybe even better, but man would my system suck if I had done that. My amp and speakers are about $5k. Imagine if I had to split that up between a pre-amp, a phono pre amp, more interconnects, an actual audio rack, cleaning machines, storage for the damn albums....
No active crossovers for Dawnrazor, no room correction, no changing songs at a whim, crappy amps, probably no sub, etc. Waf would go way down.
Hell, just buying music would be a challenge. You can barely find stores that have the crap I listen to let alone the vinyl of it. (I had to go to disney world to find the latest Fields of the Nephilim CD...I don't even think they put it out on vinyl). I surely don't want to be hanging around the college record stores looking for used copies of the Sisters of Mercy Floodland....
I do agree with Linn's "SOurce First" dogma, and that is why I chose a PC based system...and so did they.
I am looking to see if they make a plug in for Foobar that replicates album hiss and needle thumps :)
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