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This audiophile discussion reminds me of this article I read last year:
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Randy Butternubs said:
An Audiophile's $1M Dream Stereo System Gets Sold for Just $165K After His Death
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I think it's absolutely hilarious that this is the other side of the coin of getting new vs. used stereo equipment. Buying new almost makes no sense because stereo music technology, unlike PCs or video, started peaking roughly 50-60 years ago, so the used market is flooded with decades worth of gear that sounds just as good as a modern receiver/speaker so there's no real point in getting something brand new and expensive. My personal music setup consists of a Marantz stereophonic receiver that's so old it has wooden walls connected to thrift store restored loudspeakers - and by playing a FLAC file from line-in they probably would thrash the performance of a 6 figure vinyl player.

This is also likely why snake oil is so prevalent in the consoomslop produced by the music listening industry, being the absence of the ability to make genuine innovations combined with an audience that is highly tech illiterate - many of them genuinely believe shitty analog products + recordings sound better than digital to the point digital is basically a slur for them.
Brenda Holiday said:
vinyl records produced today for pop stars, which iirc specifically mentioned Taylor Swift, are made as shitty as possible
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See Exhibit A: Brand new records literally have windows error sounds in their masters
 
moocow said:
I'm astonished they even got 15% of its original purchase price for it. They must have found another dumbass audiophile to pawn it off to, and the idiot probably thought he was getting a steal.
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It probably was a steal. I would imagine in that pile of audio equipment there has to be a few rare and actually valuable treasures in there.
 
Kiska said:
I think it's absolutely hilarious that this is the other side of the coin of getting new vs. used stereo equipment. Buying new almost makes no sense because stereo music technology, unlike PCs or video, started peaking roughly 50-60 years ago, so the used market is flooded with decades worth of gear that sounds just as good as a modern receiver/speaker so there's no real point in getting something brand new and expensive. My personal music setup consists of a Marantz stereophonic receiver that's so old it has wooden walls connected to thrift store restored loudspeakers - and by playing a FLAC file from line-in they probably would thrash the performance of a 6 figure vinyl player.
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IKR. Modern speakers can go for 100's. I got my PC speakers from a carboot like a decade ago for like £5 and they still work like a dream.

Kiska said:
This is also likely why snake oil is so prevalent in the consoomslop produced by the music listening industry, being the absence of the ability to make genuine innovations combined with an audience that is highly tech illiterate - many of them genuinely believe shitty analog products + recordings sound better than digital to the point digital is basically a slur for them.
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Don't records degrade with each play? I don't really get the autism for records when CDs can last for an eternity without any audio degradation(I have CDs from the 80s that still work perfectly). I'm not really into music, but how do audiophiles respond to that fact? It seems weird to have all this expensive equipment only to use such a shitty format to extract the music from.
 
Jason_Cruiser said:
Don't records degrade with each play?
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They do.
Jason_Cruiser said:
I don't really get the autism for records
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I like listening to my records, but it isn't about audio quality. I just like the actual ritual of playing a record. It's also difficult to skip tracks so I end up listening to an entire album at once (or at least one side of an album).

I also didn't spend my much on the equipment as a lot of it as either cheap or dug out of my grandmother's house.
 
Kiska said:
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Would you like to buy a $6,500 AC wall outlet for that?
Better yet, don't risk blowing off your cheap fuses and spec up as well
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It's the standard that the audiophile community glazes over.
Make sure you also connect your components properly and spec up with a proper $15,500 RCA cable
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What a suspicious website. Nebraska location, Colorado phone number, Texas head office location.

The address is a house as well, so idk where that picture of a storefront comes from.

Also: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tweekgeek

Obviously he’s a conman peddling hardware store parts at 6000x markup, but what’s with all the weird address stuff?
 
Kalsarikännit said:
Obviously he’s a conman peddling hardware store parts at 6000x markup, but what’s with all the weird address stuff?
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Makes it a lot more inconvenient for a lazy "detective" to track down fraud, i.e. it makes it easier for this guy to scam audiophiles because the odds any of them are ever going to come find him are next to zero.
 
audiophiles are also the same people that will buy PS1s en masse and mod the shit out of them because apparently the PS1 DAC is the greatest DAC to ever exist
audiophiles need their own thread
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Kalsarikännit said:
What a suspicious website. Nebraska location, Colorado phone number, Texas head office location.

The address is a house as well, so idk where that picture of a storefront comes from.

Also: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tweekgeek

Obviously he’s a conman peddling hardware store parts at 6000x markup, but what’s with all the weird address stuff?
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Tweakgeek is simply a US "distributor" of QSA components.
This is QSA btw. [Archive]
Yes that webpage looks like a literal shitpost.
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To address any concerns on the home webpage that is literally also an ad for an "Audio grade wifi6 router"
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And yes, apparently some people purportedly are retarded enough to buy QSA fuses for $10K each.
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sodaboard said:
audiophiles are also the same people that will buy PS1s en masse and mod the shit out of them because apparently the PS1 DAC is the greatest DAC to ever exist
audiophiles need their own thread
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Kiska said:
Tweakgeek is simply a US "distributor" of QSA components.
This is QSA btw. [Archive]
Yes that webpage looks like a literal shitpost.
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To address any concerns on the home webpage that is literally also an ad for an "Audio grade wifi6 router"
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And yes, apparently some people purportedly are retarded enough to buy QSA fuses for $10K each.
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this is some cargo cult shit, lmao
 
Jason_Cruiser said:
IKR. Modern speakers can go for 100's. I got my PC speakers from a carboot like a decade ago for like £5 and they still work like a dream.


Don't records degrade with each play? I don't really get the autism for records when CDs can last for an eternity without any audio degradation(I have CDs from the 80s that still work perfectly). I'm not really into music, but how do audiophiles respond to that fact? It seems weird to have all this expensive equipment only to use such a shitty format to extract the music from.
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A bit nitpicky, but audio systems/headphones that are above 100 euros usually are needed for recording/mixing, where you'd need as flat of a response as possible, aka no "bass boosted" garbage. Its just people with too much money spending them on whatvis unnecessary.
Kinda like majority of pickups debates in guitar world. I recently played 2400€ Strandberg(guitar nerds will know what I mean) in guitar shop, and compared it to 200 and something Ibanez Gio's I wanted to buy that day, because I always wanted to checj the difference myself, and...I mean, there is some difference on hi gain(le metal tone), a bit more clarity in notes, but bro, 2.4k euros?? Get outta here, man
 
Raging Capybara said:
Records produced at any point in time are cheap as garbage because that's the point of this medium. You can't press a vinyl properly because it's not feasible, they are all shit because the format is shit. People bought this garbage before the 80s because there was nothing else that didn't cost a fortune.
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Get a load of this guy not being able to hear the warm organic tones coming through my conda cables.
 
sodaboard said:
there is nothing wrong with this room
got your bed, laptop, shelf for necessary objects
perfection
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Matress on floor is flop house-tier. I won't even pretend i haven't lived like this before but it's definitely just a tiny step above bum.
Kiska said:
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Would you like to buy a $6,500 AC wall outlet for that?
Better yet, don't risk blowing off your cheap fuses and spec up as well
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It's the standard that the audiophile community glazes over.
Make sure you also connect your components properly and spec up with a proper $15,500 RCA cable
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Best "a fool and his money" example i've seen in a while. I talked to some audiophile nerds IRL before and i usually just make the :story: face in response to their tellings. I have more respect for people that rice their shitty Hondas thanthem, it's such a crystal clear scam and they're falling hook, line and sinker for it.
 
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They're grading the vegetables now, Jim. How much has the value of this fucking spinach skyrocketed, guys.

I kinda wonder if someone has actually tried this before
 
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