The thing that alway grinds my gears about expensive Steampunk Audio gear is that SP is essentially an imagined aesthetic wherein destitute survivors of a post apocalyptic world cobble together bits and pieces of the detritus of our fallen civilization to create something useful from the junkyard to which they have been consigned. It's meant to illustrate how people create something out of nothing and make it look cool to boot.way to steampunk for my taste
i'm starting to like the simpler things as of late
now, if it only wasn't for the blue led's (can i get the the calssic green, or at least orange/red, as in the small nixie tubes in first calc's and digital watches? i'd kill for a modern integrated with a display made of those...)
Compare that aesthetic with something like this:
Which is a D'Agostino monoblock power amp costing $29,000.
Imagine actually forking out the $58,000 and buying buying a pair and putting them in their listening room to look like a Steampunk kinda guy, Hard for me to see how someone could culturally affect the Steampunk aesthetic that way, and look like anything but a clueless poseur.