Recent content by justanotherhifiman

I literally use my first gen LS50Ws with a separate DAC/streamer. The obsolescence argument seems like a boogie man forever lurking on the horizon for people uninclined to own the stuff, and non existent for those who own it.

I just feel like we're into circular logic here. We're into circular logic here. 1) Nobody is stopping anyone from adding preferred gear. I think I've said this three times now. This paradigm you keep coming back to isn't real. If you don't want to add boxes you don't need to. If you do want...

I said it's a red herring for three reasons: 1) You are conflating two separate issues: upgrade culture and functional obsolescence. They're related by association, but not causality. Upgrade culture is driven by marketing and social factors like prestige and peer opinion and rarely from...

So here we are, with contrasting experiences (you with decades in AV, me with half a decade with this specific product) drawing contrasting conclusions. The digital front end you're speaking about is a DAC, a streaming module, a streaming interface app and a remote control app. All of which is...

It just sounds like technophobia to me. If you don't like the app or streamer, you don't need to use them. You find an superior streamer, you can use that instead. My LS50Ws didn't become landfill when they broke out of warrantee. I'm realising that the audiophile world is markedly pro hi-fi...

Not sure what all the antipathy here is about. Is there some separates tribalism in the air? This is an extremely exciting product imo: Baby Blades combining the best aspects multiple product ranges and technologies. I'm not sure what the concern about obsolescence is: I've had the original...

The speakers you're imagining exist: it's called the reference range. And they are the only KEF speakers still made exclusively in U.K. (not counting blades or Muons)