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In Reply to: It's fun when you've got stuff set to cruise control posted by theaudiohobby on May 1, 2007 at 08:34:41:
"I have been reminiscing on my journey so far in this hobby and I am pretty pleased with myself, I seem to have gotten to sound aspect fixed to a tee, so much so that I am now thinking of aesthetics of my components."I know of only one person who was satisfied with the sound of his audio system and then made changes to it for purely cosmetic reasons.
He made this change roughly 25 years ago, replacing some Harman/Kardon Citation separates with a Sansui G-9000 receiver. Afterwards, he really regretted the change, and to this day, has been unable to attain the sonic satisfaction he had prior to that one change. (In spite of moving up to Spectron, Ayre, and Revel.)
Now if your "aesthetic" changes are merely altering the looks of existing components, disregard my warning.
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Thanks for the advice, I am keeping my original preamplifier, should in case :-), the new preamplifier is a visual match for my SACD Player it will be a pity not to at least try it.thanks once again.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
But whatever made you do that?
That Sansui was a monster.
It's a friend here in CA who traded the Citation gear for the Sansui..... He was beguiled by the looks of the G-9000..... (He may have had the one down, the G-8000.) He spent more time at that Federated store than I did.....I personally had a couple of these units several years ago. Found out the G-901DB, the European model, looks and sounds better..... The unit looks even bigger than I remembered, but it was indeed eye candy.... (I was collecting vintage receivers for awhile. My faves are the Onkyo TX-8500 and the Harman/Kardon 930.)
He peruses this site on occasion.... May have even posted here..... He might appreciate you feeling his pain.... [-;
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