Peculiar type of audiophool

C'mon. Share the reviews or opinion pieces or whatever.

If I could just jack my copywriting and schmoozing skills up a bit, and my ethics down, I could make a mint in audio equipment.

Den fredag den 31. marts 2017 kl. 23.47.42 UTC+2 skrev bitrex:

isn't most musicians like that?, everything "vintage" have some magic property

cyclist seem to be the opposite, the new model that 0.01% stiffer and 2 grams lighter is just sooo must better than last years model

-Lasse

The thing's not even out yet, and already the vintage fanbois are declaring it garbage:

Looks pretty nice to me. SMT versions of the crusty old op amps made on modern process and film resistors instead of old carbon comp through hole "barrel" types probably have lower noise, too.

It'll likely sound better. Er I mean, not "warm."

They swapped out the LM7xxxs for a boost converter! It won't sound right!

I'll make my "If you can identify your Model D vs the copy in a blind test correctly 8 out of 10 times I'll buy you the copy. If you can't, I take home the Model D."

Guarantee I will have no takers

Oh, well, I've read the article about why double-blind testing is total crap. So of course you won't get any takers.

(It's about why really poorly executed double-blind testing is crap compared to well-executed "take it home and get used to it" testing, btw

-- love those straw-man arguments.)

Oh the horror!

My gawd!

Thus entirely destroying the character.

Cold and sterile. No doubt!

If it doesn't have genuine paper capacitors that have been rolled on the thighs of virgins dipped in LN2* then it just won't sound good.

• Clarification -- the _caps_ should be cryogenically treated. Not the virgins.

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I misspoke. I've had one Internet-taker so far, claims he's willing to wager on getting it right 10 of 10 times.

"Anyone who thinks it will sound anything alike is just telling themselves that because they're poor."

That is because the didn't use virgin Silicon. They used recycled Silicon from old chips that homeopathic imprints of previous use.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things)

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

Cold as a Liberal's mind?

Yeah, I don't really want any of that stuff in my chips the way they make it these days, I hear it's full of impurities. Dirty low-class hussy silicon.

I only want the pure, virgin stuff.

That's the prototype for a $400 unit? To me it looks like a lot of pots/ switches and connectors for $400. But maybe they'll make it up in volume. (We can barely sell a little plastic box, two pots/ switch. a few IC's for $400.)

George H.

Of course things sounded better 30 years ago. They are nostalgic for the days before they ruined their hearing.

Well, seems there isn't much difference between them.

Even looks like Nancy's twin.

Well, yours does have a plastic box and probably knobs for the pots...

When I was a kid I was pretty good at estimating the cost of audio gear. I'd go into the stores and surprise the sales people with my knowledge of the industry ($20 per knob).

Before they listened to Nancy, Hillary, Chucky, and Bernie 24x7.