NorthSky
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Insanely Expensive Audio
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Music with a view.
A wide range of gear here, some new, some used, some more insane than others:
https://www.higherfi.com/
HigherFi Inc., Ft. Myers, Florida
https://www.higherfi.com/
HigherFi Inc., Ft. Myers, Florida
I like artistic expression, but often with metal, glass and other shiny objects, bling art and fine art can at times be hard to distinguish. Somewhat like kitsch and "real" or "fine" art - the space that separates them can be quite a diffuse at times.
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I had a pinterest account for about the same reasons maybe 3 years ago. But they spammed the daylights out of me. I finally killed the account and blocked them. Do they still do that? They essentially hounded me away from them.
I get 1 or 2 emails per day, but you can mark them as spam (or junk) and never see the emails.
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I can't quite read the brand name on that heatshrink. Master-Bait, or something similar...
They are enticing. They make it appear as though the gear is doing something.
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These products gives me the feeling I'm back at WBF 
Exiters from that forum could call it WTF.These products gives me the feeling I'm back at WBF
We should make decals.
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Not sure about decals but I'd probably fall for just sticking a VU meter that moved around without actually being connected to anything! There is just something super cool about a couple of analogue indicators dancing around on the front of an amplifier. I once nearly bought an SPL Phonitor for that very reason until sense and reason took hold.
You got it..Those prices are no longer "insanely expensive."
On top of the products I looove to hate
The ... WAVAC !!! It was $350,000 in 2004!! I shudder to know what it would cost today, 14 years later, perhaps > $500K .. Prices do not go down in High End Audio, they only increase. This thing is the epitome of Low Fidelity to the signal but is highly musical ... whatever that means to you plebeian objectivists ... (Actually if you were to ask us, subjectivists what that means you would get a very different answer from every respondent.
The Link to John Atkinson measurements (Click here)
Since we are dealing with the absurd, here is another link ... I like the Nordost Fiber Optics cable a lot ...
Click HERE The link is a little behind the times for speaker cables but I believe the fiber optic cables form Nordost is still the king of fiber optic cables ... I think they should use that particular brand of fiber for Transcontinental Internet connection. Those slow undersea cables in use today are no match for it... Only problem would have been the cost $33,000 for 2 meters! NY _london is 5,585,000 meters but hey!! Jeff Bezos could pay for it to allow Amazon customers to have a better Internet Experience
I am also looking for a $100K speaker cable .. The MIT ACC 268 at $80,000 (No TYPO, Click here), comes close but I need $100K models to bring my speakers/system to the next level: Blacker background, stadium-sized soundstage, more extension in the highs ... Magic elimination of room nodes and other objectivist fixations such as rooms peaks or even the arcane Allison effect. True the MIT with its many poles of Articulation is only $80K (By the way the value of the poles can be calculated since those are poles of something mathematical, equation perhaps.. and it is from MIT
) perhaps a few additional meters woud bring it to the magical threshold of $100K but I am partial to short speaker cable and long interconnects ....
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Life is short, aim high, get the best or have a rest.
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Let's put some numbers in perspective. In Houston it's possible to buy a well located, older 660 sf condo for $125k. It is subject to a $200/month maintenance fee. A 3 year off lease BMW 3 series costs around $25k.
I suspect the folks who buy the really expensive stuff made their money kind of suddenly and luckily. They probably did not own a business.
Hi-Fi is just one of those things were prices start low and go past the stratosphere. Watches are similar. A digital watch with all sorts of functions keeps perfect time and costs under $10. Some handmade complex watches are in 6 figures.
I suspect the folks who buy the really expensive stuff made their money kind of suddenly and luckily. They probably did not own a business.
Hi-Fi is just one of those things were prices start low and go past the stratosphere. Watches are similar. A digital watch with all sorts of functions keeps perfect time and costs under $10. Some handmade complex watches are in 6 figures.
Do you think that getting the Topping DX7 is aiming high?
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Frantz, what is Topping DX7?
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I just stumbled across this site. Among their offerings are the Pivetta Opera Only amplifier for $2.2 million and a selection of speakers so large and ugly I wouldn't want them in my house.
Of interest I find the Audio Note speakers a relatively simple 2 way ported box based on the old Snell Type E. Variations with silver wire and external crossovers are up to $100k. They have some tube amps going up to $250k, and a CD player with matching DAC for around $100k.
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