Lamborghini among CD Players for $55,000!!! - Page 3

The SixMoons article is interesting. I don’t recall many manufacturers comparing their equipment to live music.


This aspect would be intriguing:

“Perhaps the most shocking comparison came at the hands of Mr. So Long Ming whose Spanish guitar of the recording was the same he used to play live that day.”


This level of equipment is art as much as technology.

Mitch

Something related.

Stereophile (Jan 2006) did an equipment report on a turn table set from down under, the Continuum Audio Labs Caliburn, Cobra and Castle which are the turntable, tonearm and stand respectively. Total cost USD 90,000!

I'm not sure what to say about the Zanden units, but wanted to congratulate Adam for getting through that long initial post with only one which is a true accomplishment indeed.

Zanden just won Soundstage Award for the year 2005 for "Innovation In Design":

http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/z...00_premium.htm

http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/z...e_followup.htm

[QUOTE=Thaddy]I wonder what people who buy equipment like that listen to? [QUOTE]

Well, you never know. It could be some rich kid listening Britney Spears from a $100000 setup.

So mean but so true...

Over $50,000.00!!!!!

FYI upsampling doesn't improve fidelity. In most cases quite the opposite.

Just to play Devil's Advocate, what if you were very rich, and truly loved music, and already had the dedicated listening room and amps, speakers, and room acoustic repairs? Would it be wrong for you to buy this?
Who's to say that if someone like me, for example who listens to music 3 hours a day, couldn't really enjoy this to the fullest. If it concentrates on perfecting Redbook (and I am a SACD/DVD-A multichannel lover) without upsampling/converting and uses the finest components possible and the finest technology possible, and gives you the best sound that a component could give...wouldn't it be worth it, if you already had the cars and the house and the beautiful works-with-homeless-children wife?

I live on credit and have a sizeable debt from this passion we call audiophilia, but I try to buy the best things I can within my budget times 2.
If somebody can afford it, it doesn't necessarily mean they don't get the same joy out of it as any of us, unless they are buying it to impress others.

Again, please don't shoot me...but looking at the other side of the fence, a good portion of the members would say the same about paying 8 times's as much as their player for the Reimyo. I know the Reimyo sounds incredible, but most people would say that it doesn't sound $12K better that an Eastsound E-5. The same can be said with the dCS Verdi & Scala, and the Meitner CDSD and Dac6E. But they are some of the best players and performers avaiable, and that extra 20% is worth the money to those who can handle it. It's all relative.

I was in a high end store once, and a rich old woman bought the Sonus Faber Stradavarius, because it went perfectly with the wood theme in her den, and would probably never turn them on, but that is one small example in a world of audiophiles.

Good points. Some folks have huge amounts of money. They buy private jets. They go on a weekend vacation that costs $50,000. To that person, spending $50,000 on a CD player or turntable is nothing. It's like spending $100 to you or me. And at least a CD player or turntable lasts longer than a weekend. It's not for me, as I don't have anything like the kind of money we're talking about, but I don't see how anyone can say that someone who buys such a thing is a fool.

the way I see it, if you buy one of these players, the CDs you listen to would have to have been made in the last few years in the most expensive studios in the world in order to get enough detail and fidelity.

That means you would be listening to the last U2 album for the rest of your life . Which means, if all I listen to is, say, the Fall or other British indie bands - the cheap DVD player I'm using as a source is the best CD player in the world!


sorry for butting in on your thread, please continue

so you are deliberately degrading the sound eh ? ORGANIC ... bastards......somebody ban this adam.

Actually..."How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" is a horrible low-res recording. I'm using it as a coaster so I don't get wet rings on my coffee table.

There are some great recordings from the '60's/70's/90's and current times. The 60's and 70's remasters from the orignal analog masters can be some of the best stuff out there. Forget about the 80's revolution. They didn't believe in real instruments, except for rocker bands like Pat Benetar and Motley Crue but the record companies felt it wasn't important to spend money on quality pressings.

I am very disappointed in Bono allowing his artistry to be issued in such a horrible release. I guess that's why there's a U2 Ipod, for people who like 128kbps music.