GuyDebord
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satisfied?
is that a feeling? Im not familiar with it in music reproduction.....
Originally Posted by john53 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Uncle Erik and robm321,after how many years did you come to this point of satisfaction? |
Originally Posted by nikongod /img/forum/go_quote.gif Im fairly satisfied with my system. My solution is actually fairly simple although time consuming and perhaps slightly expensive to reproduce. In hindsight, boomana's oft given advice is just buy expensive gear. Thats where I am now, and taking this advice would have saved significant ammounts of money on shipping worthless junk around, and random experimentation on gear that everyone told me was not too hot. I still like the DIY stuff and would happily experiment with that even in the fact that I have only ever lost money doing so. buy 12 headphones. sell the 4 you dont like and buy 4 others. then buy 4 more for a total of 20. of these there are probably 4 that I regularly listen to, and 6 that I occasionally listen to. The other 10 are ones that have a cool and special sound that I only want occasionally but want badly enough not to sell, rotate through them anyways and sample a few FOTM's because thats what we do here. The whole amp thing is a bit trickier, but follows the same themes: buy an amp. sell it. buy 2 amps. sell 1, but build 3 or 4. sell 2 of the DIY amps, build a single better one. sell that. buy another diy kit. build it. upgrade it to an absurd level and put it on the shelf for a few years. buy an amp for 1 headphone (the melos for the HP-1000) and upgrade it per the various instructions posted about. buy and sell few more amps which are not worth mention. buy mpx3 toaster. buy singlepower extreme. Sell MPX3. Sell extreme, buy supra. buy a different MPX3 while waiting for the supra. supra comes (finally) sell MPX3. sell supra. buy truly cheap 708b amp, and upgrade it. sell supra. build silver ghost. build "the small transformer coupled amp with one tube in an enclosure that did not come out quite as hammertoned as I would have liked" give away 708b because there was no interest to buy it but its now got a great home. thats about where I stand now. Somewhere in there I experimented with stax headphones but sold them for dynamics. Im happier with my dynamics, but kind of wish I still had the stax so Im getting back into them. the whole source thing is a bit more complicated. it started out with various grades of portable crap. then I won a mildly busted mccormack cd player in a raffle and fixed it. it was awesome, but it has succumbed to age and is no longer fixable by me (bummer, I really liked it) buy MDHT constantine. buy analog setup (rega P3, bottlehead seduction) buy zhalou and mod it. sell constantine sell P3, buy vpi scout sell zhalou put the scout on the shelf and build a DIY TT, phono-stage is the same. buy TPA COD parts. be a lazy bum and dont put them together even a full year and a half later. buy e-sound E5 buy beresford clone DAC and mod it. sell it. buy adcom because it is budget friendly. Its a long and winding journey with some times where it appears that I have gone downhill in my efforts to reach the top, but overall Im pretty happy. My digital source could stand some upgrading, but thats ok: its pretty satisfying as it stands now. |
Originally Posted by kool bubba ice /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm never satisfied. That's my problem. Somewhere, the grass is always greener on the other side.. For 10,000 I would be contempt. |