Where Have All the Serious Audiophiles Gone?

[VMAT4]

Anyone want one of these? Are you serious? More info here.

 

[sergeauckland]

All gone to iPods every one.
S

 

[GXAlan]

It follows a similar tube complement to my MC2102 (which is on sale: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/mcintosh-mc2102-with-ge-tubes-5000.13418/).

The SNR is better and I don't see any comments about it being a fully transistor-free signal path.

Money aside, that amp is likely going to fall under the same category of the mechanical watch analogy.

 

[StefaanE]

Why will they never learn?

 

[ta240]

I like the term "audio jewelry" It is the audio equivalent of the Dodge Viper (when they first came out) to park out front when you have parties. It is the Excalibur Quatuor to impress rather then tell the time.

 

[win]

i prefer putting a space heater next to a $35 class d lepai amp. sounds better anyway.

 

[blueone]

Anyone want one of these? Are you serious? More info here.

I'd like one so I can sell it new-in-box on Audiogon.

 

[CDMC]

Why buy that when for less money you can buy a pair of Carver 350s with more than twice the power, run way cooler and have a 40 year tube life?

 

[Martin]

I'd love to buy a pair of Crimson monoblocks.

Martin

 

[StefaanE]

Why tubes? When I was talking a course on electronics design and construction back in 1969, we still had to design and build a mono tube amp before moving on to designing and building a four-transistor portable radio . I still remember soldering wires to the tube sockets — the result was a rat’s nest of wires despite my best efforts at making a clean design and implementation. Later I did a couple of power amps with 2N3055s, they were fun. But tubes....

 

[mhardy6647]

Serious audiophiles like the late and much lamented* Dr. Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg?

http://www.meta-gizmo.org/index.html

Oh, and on topic (?!?)
I would really, truly like to think that serious audiophiles would really, truly prefer, if not expect, their vacuum tubes to glow orange (or bright white, if the filaments are thoriated tungstern) and not fricking green.

Money aside, that amp is likely going to fall under the same category of the mechanical watch analogy.

But even Mac doesn't make a mechanical amplifier, to the best of my knowledge.



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* Or, to quote Patty Larkin, whilst channeling Marlene Dietrich: "The late, the great... the dead..." ["Gizmo", in this case].

 

[win]

Why tubes? When I was talking a course on electronics design and construction back in 1969, we still had to design and build a mono tube amp before moving on to designing and building a four-transistor portable radio . I still remember soldering wires to the tube sockets — the result was a rat’s nest of wires despite my best efforts at making a clean design and implementation. Later I did a couple of power amps with 2N3055s, they were fun. But tubes....

might be blasphemous here, but there is something intrinsically neat about tubes. And they can sound good too. I just wouldn't want to be stuck with a $12,000 amp that has distortion by design. Much rather get a clean amp and do that stuff in the pre-stage. Then it's optional.

 

[win]

one of these?

OP - did you see this link, from Hypebeast, on your Google feed per chance? I just did last night. It's starting to feel like Google is in control of a deterministic world.

 

[North_Sky]

Nice...black, silver, green and gold. It looks like the perfect vaccine.

 

[Doodski]

Anyone want one of these? Are you serious? More info here.

I want them. Tube or no tube they are beautiful and industrial works of art.

 

[RichB]

They died.

- Rich

 

[Archsam]

You mean audiophile like this fella?
I think in order to join the club, you need to put in a hefty price for entry just like this guy, and this isn't something you are going to replace with a 'cheap' integrated amp

Tip: you can turn on the English caption on youtube if you don't speak cantonese.

Edit: ok the subtitle is crap, only [Music] - seriously??

 

[Doodski]

You mean audiophile like this fella?
I think in order to join the club, you need to put in a hefty price for entry just like this guy, and this isn't something you are going to replace with a 'cheap' integrated amp

I can imagine that fine china in the background rattling and buzzing away when those fine looking speakers are wound up. (In Canada we simply call this fine porcelain "China.")

 

[Archsam]

I can imagine that fine china in the background rattling and buzzing away when those fine looking speakers are wound up.

There's a really funny follow up video when the host revisited this apartment and fooled around with the DSP module (which the owner never used), because the glass facade to the left is creating all sorts of funny reflections, and according to the owner, the system never sounded SOTA

 

[VMAT4]

OP - did you see this link, from Hypebeast, on your Google feed per chance? I just did last night. It's starting to feel like Google is in control of a deterministic world.

Not last night, just this afternoon.