Really HIgh FIdelity

[Overmind]

Haha, wouldn't want to be his neighbour.

[Mattk]

Yikes! And I thought my uncle had too much hifi equipment.

[dutchmasterflex]

Those speakers are beautiful.. I want those on my walls now!

[Mattk]

Yeah, they are. Unfortunately, probably way out of our budgets.

[TeflonTron]

Well, it's hardly Krell or Linn.

[ZfrkS62]

:shock: i don't want to know what his power bill is :shock:

[antonioledesma]

Yeah, they are. Unfortunately, probably way out of our budgets.

you're 17, so you're very young.
Just read again what mojo said, that guy doesn't have wife or kids. So he only uses a minimum part of his salary/wage to afford a decent living

and by the way mojo... you use 230 Volts in Finland?
Maybe he's only using the common 230 Volts and needs a bigger gauge cable because the current (amperes) is big enough to fry some ordinary cable.
Or he is just using 2 electric lines

[SFDMALEX]

The funniest and saddest thing of all that is his setup wont sound any better then a conventional high end with an older philips cd-player hooked up to a pair of lets say some higher end Jamos :wink:

Its just show and possing.

I've been into audio with my dad since I was 12. Herd hundres of different amps through hundres of different speakers in my life...and you'd be surprised how much money you can blow on a setup withouht it being any good :P

Just one of these loosers who say an extra silver strand of wire in your speakers wire will make a difference in sound....oh and how aluminum knobs on the pots change the acoustics of the room.........

Its great to look at, but there just is no point :wink:

[nthfinity]

I've been into audio with my dad since I was 12. Herd hundres of different amps through hundres of different speakers in my life...and you'd be surprised how much money you can blow on a setup withouht it being any good

Just one of these loosers who say an extra silver strand of wire in your speakers wire will make a difference in sound....oh and how aluminum knobs on the pots change the acoustics of the room.........

so, you've heard some "amazing" american sound systems' speakers :P :wink:

[SFDMALEX]

I've been into audio with my dad since I was 12. Herd hundres of different amps through hundres of different speakers in my life...and you'd be surprised how much money you can blow on a setup withouht it being any good

Just one of these loosers who say an extra silver strand of wire in your speakers wire will make a difference in sound....oh and how aluminum knobs on the pots change the acoustics of the room.........

so, you've heard some "amazing" american sound systems' speakers :P :wink:


hmmm American.........lets see.......I dont think I did. I do have a pair of Canadian speakers in storage though :P

Mirage is the name, pretty decent speakers too. Had to change the woofer rubber on them when I got em.


This is what I have running in the house now though
http://www.is-mad.com/upload/userfiles/SFDMALEX/Audio/

The infinities were actually the cheapest of the series but the sound amazingly good. Bass is the best around, great mids but I would like more highs.

The Jamos I have in this room. They are the better sounding of the bunch, but due to the stupid horn design around the mid range and the tweeter you have to sit right in the middle of them for best effect. If you move away to the side or your ears are not in the right position the sound changes competly :(

And the Marantz I have in the bedroom. Very thick wood, but they dont sound so great. The woofer is too stiff, and the two tweeters just peirce the ears too much............they really lack mid range.

[Mattk]

His stuff looks quite new, which for my audiophile uncle seems to mean lower-quality. Not sure why.

[SFDMALEX]

His stuff looks quite new, which for my audiophile uncle seems to mean lower-quality. Not sure why.

Oh the quaility is high :wink: High as it gets, it just doesnt mean that it sounds good :wink: Or maybe it does.....but it doesnt have to :P

[TeflonTron]

I'll say again: it's hardly Linns or Krell.

High-end audio is the same as high-end cars, only more so: the final 10% of performance costs 10 times what the first 90% cost.

[SFDMALEX]

I'll say again: it's hardly Linns or Krell.

High-end audio is the same as high-end cars, only more so: the final 10% of performance costs 10 times what the first 90% cost.

Well I dont agree. I herd 10 000$ systems which sound worse then what I have at home.

The sound doesnt come at a high price.

Well from the amp end of things it can cost quite a bit. A main volume pot 100$, a military grade relay if you can find one (my dad had a chance to get some early 80s soviet which were used for tanks and such) priceless, a custom wound transformer a few hundred $ I guess.
Anyway boxed and everything if you do all the work yourself I guess it'll set you back 1300$.

Speakers. Building your own boxes shouldnt be expensive. Drivers you can get quite cheap when you shop around....usualy comes with corroded rubber or stuff like that.

So I would say 2300$ if you engineer it all and make it yourself.

But if you have to buy then a high end setup can cost quite a bit retail. :(


Its the cosmetics that do. Like useless 100$ a meter wires, and 3000$ speaker stands.

Seen to many amps in expensive aluminum boxes that are just badly engineered with useless junk. Hey but its "high end", has a 5000$ price tag :roll: Some of the stuff is so bad you think some teenager made it.

[DeMoN]

Id love to go to one of his parties.

[TeflonTron]

Alex: a Linns or Krell system, for example, can easily run into 6 figures US. That's $100,000 and upwards.

There is no way in hell that you can put together something of that quality using parts that you've made yourself. Plus, some Krell amps go up to 8000RMS and 2 Ohms.