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07-20-2006, 10:22 AM
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Seth L
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
Why bother with the BOSE. Made cheap sold expensive. A perfect example of what is wrong with the world today. Any audiophile or someone with some sense knows BOSE's ratio of cost to price is grossly exagerated.
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07-22-2006, 08:56 AM
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
After giving it some more thought and reading the responses here, I think I'm more of an enthusiast than an audiophile. Knowledge is a big part of what makes a person an audiophile and I still have a lot more to learn about this stuff. And while I agree that the cost of equipment isn't the most important part, you still need to be willing to spend as much as you can to get better performance. I could afford to move up to separates and better speakers but I'm just not willing to do so. Yet. I also love classic cars and hot rods but thank god I'm not a "hotrodder" (I think the're called "tuners" these days). I also enjoy golf but I'm not insane either. So I think it comes down to passion, and my passion is split between too many things so I think "enthusiast" is about right for me.
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07-22-2006, 10:49 AM
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Seth L
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
You might be an audiophile if your Home theater or stereo is worth more than you car.
Sorry Jeff Foxworthy,
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07-22-2006, 11:56 AM
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Mark
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
If you've ever uttered the phrase "Damn! ONLY 44kHz?????  ", you might be an audiophile.
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07-22-2006, 04:05 PM
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
If you try to hook up your pre-amps to a Binford model 4200 Hemi powered commercial generator, you might be an audiophile. (Sorry, Tim Taylor).
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07-22-2006, 04:37 PM
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Seth L
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
If you have a home theater in you motor home, you might be an audiophile.
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07-22-2006, 04:42 PM
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Mark
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
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If you have a home theater in you motor home, you might be an audiophile.
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...If you're homeless and have a home theater, you might be....
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07-22-2006, 05:01 PM
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Seth L
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
That it I am going to look for a homeless audiophile!
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07-22-2006, 05:09 PM
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Mark
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
I think most of us are on the verge of being homeless after all of the $$ we've dumped into our HT's. 
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07-22-2006, 06:34 PM
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Seth L
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Re: Are you an "audiophile"?
No kidding. And then when something goes wrong, in my case my sunfire true subwoofer is in the other just humming away, we have to spend money to fix that. I think i might be losing my mind buying all this stuff and just keeping all of it.
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07-23-2006, 10:06 AM
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I think most of us are on the verge of being homeless after all of the $$ we've dumped into our HT's. |
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07-28-2006, 12:05 PM
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We read the same magazines, but you definitely have a different take on them than I do.
Please provide 3 examples of expensive products that either Stereophile or TAS has "slammed" recently.
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Stereophile has rather infamously praised gear that tested rather badly on its own bench. That's what can happen when the wild and wooly 'subjective' reviews (in a sighted comparison "the soundstage opened up and I was hearing details I never heard before" -- I've seen this so often I have to wonder just how far a soundstage can continue to open up, and how many details one recording can contain) is juxtaposed to objective measures of performance, wihtout the reviewer seeing the bench test results (Stereophile's bench tests tend to be quite thorough). John Atkinson's explanations for such disjunction are always a, um, *delight* to read.h
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