Certainly, your posts benefited me heaps. Already exhausted today. Tomorrow evening will do so.
don't forget leh..........otherwise, i'll hound after you every day ah..................worse than ah long ah...........
Certainly, your posts benefited me heaps. Already exhausted today. Tomorrow evening will do so.
Personally I feel that the audiophile market has been going downhill all these years. Mass market brands like Marantz, Denon, Onkyo, Audiolab, Cyrus, Arcam, Creek, Cambridge Audio, Roksan..........alll sound the same - like shit! All going for the 'warm' sound which essentially is boosting the mid bass and clouding everything else. Even upmarket brands like Krell and Linn are nothing to shout about if you look at their exuberant prices. The same goes with speakers. Most of these stuff are also made in China now.
Their sales are boosted only by con magazine like "What Hi Fi"
The biggest consters are the cable makers who can charge you thousands of dollars for cables that they don't even manufacture themselves. I have yet to find a branded cable that can beat my Made in Taiwan $2.50/m cable bought in Sim Lim Tower.
Any mid range speakers just as good. Unless you have the hearing of an elephant. No need to go for branded speakers. I will only buy a good system if i have a dedicated room for it, or a home cinema.
I still have my old system of Jamo 11's & Monitor Audio speakers which I rarely use.
Nowadays I am just looking at updating my PC sound system which is currently connected to an Atlantic Technologies Pattern 100. It might be old but still a good system.
The Klipsch & Corsair sound OK to me but I'm still looking. Someone suggested something like the Onkyo LS 3100 which is a Blue tooth wireless 2.1 system.
Does not matter if you've got ears for sound quality if the music is crap. Like todays music. The sorroundings also play a big part. If you got noisy neighbors and kid also no use being a sound expert and a good system.
Personally I feel that the audiophile market has been going downhill all these years. Mass market brands like Marantz, Denon, Onkyo, Audiolab, Cyrus, Arcam, Creek, Cambridge Audio, Roksan..........alll sound the same - like shit! All going for the 'warm' sound which essentially is boosting the mid bass and clouding everything else. Even upmarket brands like Krell and Linn are nothing to shout about if you look at their exuberant prices. The same goes with speakers. Most of these stuff are also made in China now.
Their sales are boosted only by con magazine like "What Hi Fi"
The biggest consters are the cable makers who can charge you thousands of dollars for cables that they don't even manufacture themselves. I have yet to find a branded cable that can beat my Made in Taiwan $2.50/m cable bought in Sim Lim Tower.
BTW where in peesai to get vinyl records? Love the sound of the 50s and 60s on vinyl. Saw a few shops in Perth selling them cheaply. Thinking of collecting them since my dad gave away hundreds of his old records in the 80s and 90s when cds came onto market. But the sound of vinyl is shiok.
Brit products overhyped.
The only good one in my mind is just as good as dead: Nakamichi
very few British products are good lah...............good ones expensive............and they're not so well-known.............
now the Japs mostly famous for their tube amps..............they're fantastic though............transistor amps only Accuphase still highly regarded..........other brands like no longer making so hi-end liao....................
47 Labs very interesting leh................sounds very different from almost all transistor amps.............
Years ago, there was a fantastic post in a audiophile forum which I can't find now unfortunately. The guy explained why Bose spends more money no lawyers suing people than on research and also insist on 'exclusive' stores where you cannot compare two speakers of different makes.
There was also a excellent MAD magazine parody on overpriced Bose speakers
I gave up on Bose after reading thru' those. This was almost 5-6 years ago
Bose is famous for suing every thing lah...................ah neh what...............
best part was they sued very hi-end companies.................can't even use the word ''Wave'' in their products becoz of Bose Wave Radio !
Bose no need to research anymore lah................just marketing only .....................
best part is those hi-end German cars provide Bose in car audio.................what a joke !...............even B&O is crap also.................
at least Lexus provide Mark Levinson....................one car brand even provide Burmester !!!!
Yes I like my 11 speakers Mark Levinson in my car, nice.