Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...

[sygnus21]

My priority: one day to enjoy retirement and achieving peace of mind.

I'm there now. It's great.... until you get bored with all that "peace of mind" and start looking for a little excitement

 

[TheAbyss2022]

Who really needs to have a kitchen table to eat food on anyway...

 

[jonathan c]

Who really needs to have a kitchen table to eat food on anyway...

As the Bard wrote:

 

[Pharmaboy]

Insane? Not universally. You categorise that expenditure as an absolute truth. Each person has different priorities, gives those priorities different weights, and thereby tries to realise those priorities in some order.

A rather wealthy friend* owns dozens of superbly restored 1920s-1930s American cars, mostly Cadillacs. His latest find, triggered by his company being bought out for huge bucks, is a gorgeous red Dusenberg, the zenith of American luxury cars. He told me it often costs $500,000 to purchase a single one of these vehicles, then another $500,000 to $1,000,000 to have it restored to Pebble Beach level quality. That's for gigantic early Cadillacs. It costs way more for a Dusie. So I conclude this man and his wife have (just a guess) dozen of millions of dollars.

Yet he has spoken on more than one occasion about how utterly outclassed they are by the "real wealth" of people who make big showings at Pebble Beach--tycoons with 100s if not 1000s of times more money than he has. I marvel at all this (inwardly).

If I was as wealthy as my friend I could buy any amp at any price and simply not care. No electronics of any size or price would dent my assets. But if I were one of the "really wealthy" types he meets at Pebble Beach, almost nothing I could procure on earth would dent my assets. No matter how much I spent, I'd still wind up with more coming in than going out.

• Call me simple, but that strikes me as a good working definition of hell on earth ... a novel way to express complete futility
• Just a guess, but the only rational response to that weird futility would be to give a lot of/most of it away

*Luckily for both of us, he's unfamiliar with the abundant social psychological data to the effect that wealthy people have difficulty socializing with those having far less money than themselves (and the reverse). This same man once looked at me with astonishment, as if I was outright insane, when I told him I own a couple headphones that retail than ~$3,000. I have to conclude life is one long, perverse episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

 

[stersa]

New Elements …Austrian Audio,s..

best regards

Sisco

 

[razoredge]

The harmony micro DAC is going back to Laiv, and the Schiit Vali 3 has been on the desk this week. Sadly the Vali will also be going back today due to quality issues. Happy Friday folks!

 

[vmiguel]

Let the weekend begin!

 

[samr33]

The new Luxman is absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to actually hear it. Amazing build. Congrats brother, hope it's everything you were looking for!

It is amazing, I'm considering this setup as my end game

 

[Sajid Amit]

 

[Blindranger]

A rather wealthy friend* owns dozens of superbly restored 1920s-1930s American cars, mostly Cadillacs. His latest find, triggered by his company being bought out for huge bucks, is a gorgeous red Dusenberg, the zenith of American luxury cars. He told me it often costs $500,000 to purchase a single one of these vehicles, then another $500,000 to $1,000,000 to have it restored to Pebble Beach level quality. That's for gigantic early Cadillacs. It costs way more for a Dusie. So I conclude this man and his wife have (just a guess) dozen of millions of dollars.

Yet he has spoken on more than one occasion about how utterly outclassed they are by the "real wealth" of people who make big showings at Pebble Beach--tycoons with 100s if not 1000s of times more money than he has. I marvel at all this (inwardly).

If I was as wealthy as my friend I could buy any amp at any price and simply not care. No electronics of any size or price would dent my assets. But if I were one of the "really wealthy" types he meets at Pebble Beach, almost nothing I could procure on earth would dent my assets. No matter how much I spent, I'd still wind up with more coming in than going out.

• Call me simple, but that strikes me as a good working definition of hell on earth ... a novel way to express complete futility
• Just a guess, but the only rational response to that weird futility would be to give a lot of/most of it away

*Luckily for both of us, he;s unfamiliar with the abundant social psychological data to the effect that wealthy people have difficulty socializing with those having far less money than themselves (and the reverse). This same man once looked at me with astonishment, as if I was outright insane, when I told him I own a couple headphones that retail than ~$3,000. I have to conclude life is one long, perverse episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

It made me smile thinking about the big show cars my parents had when I was growing up. Their 1935 Cadillac won most elegant back in the 1980s, but about a decade ago, they took it back to PB for one more show.

 

[Honeypot]

I know it's said no old pictures, but I think this one shows better my current setup

New tubes on the way! Some ken-rad from the US and Svetlana from Ukraine.

 

[cdiaz1069]

Schiit and ZMF

 

[tholt]

I know it's said no old pictures, but I think this one shows better my current setup

New tubes on the way! Some ken-rad from the US and Svetlana from Ukraine.

Cool rack

Schiit and ZMF

Also cool rack

 

[nephilim32]

My favorite portable set up currently

 

[Pharmaboy]

Schiit and ZMF

I can't quite see the headphone. Which ZMF is it?

Love that cable by the way (I'm a fan of big copper). Where did you get it?