Stuart83
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I rarely look at things if it's not something I can seriously obtain but if anything was on the table then it would be different.
I'm very analytical it's ever more exzocorbated as a byproduct of my diagnosed illness/illnesses so it would indeed have to be sonically better but say' if one has 60m in the bank a few months bank interest would basically purchase wherever pleases you.
Taking into account 🤔 (pardon the pun) that it's basically free would unburden one from any moral scruples.
(That combined that if I had that kind of funds I'd already be very charitable with the right causes.
Building housing projects for OUR own homeless and then running them profit free after that to cover cost is something I would do)
I know myself that it would be big.
Very f🗯️ big.
Hifi big not PA stuff etc I've been they route when setting up my djay equipment in the house many times it sounds terrible in comparison.
I'm not into exotic materials bumping up cost to appear better to those types who think the higher the cost the better the sound although they are onto something in the latter mentioned cost part of the analysis.
Afterall it usually is the case (as with all things) the more spent combining it of course with COMMON SENSE the better the sound.
It's certainly been my experience over the years apart from the odd exception to the rule.
Putting bogwood on the top and gold switchgear doesn't float my boat id rather it was spent on sonic improvements.
"Function over furniture"
I've always preferred the look aesthetically of late 80s to early 90s hifi.
The common placement of dancing dB meters both analogue and digital were afterall "functional" to me as I djayed yrs using them combined with bpm counters, way before the inept soulless software that turns anyone into (usually still a bad) djay and learned to use them as an aid so like them around somewhere in a hifi.
I bought a douk amp splitter to get the added VU meters over other models after finding out it carries mostly an uninterrupted signal of course 😂
As said i recognise the room itself as a huge factor in better sound.
Experiencing a decent hifi in a sonically bad room then a good room highlighted this ever more to me only recently.
Sucks my bedroom/listening room is an odd shape etc but I value my neighbour and it's nesecerry to me not to disturb her especially when my preference is always on the exciting side of the volume dial.
Infact it's an unwritten rule and moral obligation within most of the older generation that evidently lacks with the ever more common mentalites of today.
I'd look at some of those high end 6ft plus floorstanders (to many to list) relative to the sonically perfect room I'd obviously have with that kind of bank balance.
The word "relative" seems to be prominent to everything involving budget.
Obviously a pair of stupidly expensive mono blocks would be incorporated layed on the floor on a nice plinth.
I would stay true to 2 channel stereo.
There would be no sub woofers etc.
Obviously with such a big bank balance I'd have a small room for music storage but I'd still have my favourites in the listening room.
Along with the hifi would be me, a nice sofa, a tobacco pipe and a book.
I'd probably disappear from the forum and be in the papers for being an unusual death by being found as a skeleton, pipe still in mouth on that mentioned sofa because I'd forgotten to feed myself whilst never leaving my listening room.
Maybe I've indulged with the idea too much.
But people who like cars and houses etc usually spend relative to their bank balance I would make no exception to my passion with hifi.
Don't let this misrepresent my character though.
I'm known in my family for being over frugal.
I repair even the smallest thing rather than replace.
I'd saved a long time before finally updating my main hifi (one of only 2) and even then never came even close to the modest budget I'd sensibly saved up.
Even then I still purchased the amp second hand despite budgeting for new.
I have heard a monster system once at a hifi show and it was maybe not a good idea on reflection as it unconsciously raised the bar of what I yearn for.
I have however found my happy place again lately with the fyne 502s I mentioned on another thread (to me jaw droppingly good)
A considerable jump in sound quality to what I have, had and demoed.
They have me listening to music every morning again and being excited at the idea of getting home to the audible click from the protection relay disengaging ready to listen to more music.
I've gone from sporadic listening back to whenever I get the opportunity.
After another ponder I've realised in-keeping with knowing myself as I've mentioned it's of course relative to what you have and if there's a regular income to match I'd absolutely go to a high end audio show and see what's what.
I rarely look at things if it's not something I can seriously obtain but if anything was on the table then it would be different.
I'm very analytical it's ever more exzocorbated as a byproduct of my diagnosed illness/illnesses so it would indeed have to be sonically better but say' if one has 60m in the bank a few months bank interest would basically purchase wherever pleases you.
Taking into account 🤔 (pardon the pun) that it's basically free would unburden one from any moral scruples.
(That combined that if I had that kind of funds I'd already be very charitable with the right causes.
Building housing projects for OUR own homeless and then running them profit free after that to cover cost is something I would do)
I know myself that it would be big.
Very f🗯️ big.
Hifi big not PA stuff etc I've been they route when setting up my djay equipment in the house many times it sounds terrible in comparison.
I'm not into exotic materials bumping up cost to appear better to those types who think the higher the cost the better the sound although they are onto something in the latter mentioned cost part of the analysis.
Afterall it usually is the case (as with all things) the more spent combining it of course with COMMON SENSE the better the sound.
It's certainly been my experience over the years apart from the odd exception to the rule.
Putting bogwood on the top and gold switchgear doesn't float my boat id rather it was spent on sonic improvements.
"Function over furniture"
I've always preferred the look aesthetically of late 80s to early 90s hifi.
The common placement of dancing dB meters both analogue and digital were afterall "functional" to me as I djayed yrs using them combined with bpm counters, way before the inept soulless software that turns anyone into (usually still a bad) djay and learned to use them as an aid so like them around somewhere in a hifi.
I bought a douk amp splitter to get the added VU meters over other models after finding out it carries mostly an uninterrupted signal of course 😂
As said i recognise the room itself as a huge factor in better sound.
Experiencing a decent hifi in a sonically bad room then a good room highlighted this ever more to me only recently.
Sucks my bedroom/listening room is an odd shape etc but I value my neighbour and it's nesecerry to me not to disturb her especially when my preference is always on the exciting side of the volume dial.
Infact it's an unwritten rule and moral obligation within most of the older generation that evidently lacks with the ever more common mentalites of today.
I'd look at some of those high end 6ft plus floorstanders (to many to list) relative to the sonically perfect room I'd obviously have with that kind of bank balance.
The word "relative" seems to be prominent to everything involving budget.
Obviously a pair of stupidly expensive mono blocks would be incorporated layed on the floor on a nice plinth.
I would stay true to 2 channel stereo.
There would be no sub woofers etc.
Obviously with such a big bank balance I'd have a small room for music storage but I'd still have my favourites in the listening room.
Along with the hifi would be me, a nice sofa, a tobacco pipe and a book.
I'd probably disappear from the forum and be in the papers for being an unusual death by being found as a skeleton, pipe still in mouth on that mentioned sofa because I'd forgotten to feed myself whilst never leaving my listening room.
Maybe I've indulged with the idea too much.
But people who like cars and houses etc usually spend relative to their bank balance I would make no exception to my passion with hifi.
Don't let this misrepresent my character though.
I'm known in my family for being over frugal.
I repair even the smallest thing rather than replace.
I'd saved a long time before finally updating my main hifi (one of only 2) and even then never came even close to the modest budget I'd sensibly saved up.
Even then I still purchased the amp second hand despite budgeting for new.
I have heard a monster system once at a hifi show and it was maybe not a good idea on reflection as it unconsciously raised the bar of what I yearn for.
I have however found my happy place again lately with the fyne 502s I mentioned on another thread (to me jaw droppingly good)
A considerable jump in sound quality to what I have, had and demoed.
They have me listening to music every morning again and being excited at the idea of getting home to the audible click from the protection relay disengaging ready to listen to more music.
I've gone from sporadic listening back to whenever I get the opportunity.
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