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raccoon.bmp
Feb 16, 2023

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Mr. Mercury posted:

Friendly reminder to spend more on your family and less on stereo equipment



Each of these tonearms cost $20k on their own :psyduck:

They require small air compressors installed outside of the room to be fed into the arms to do... something. This turntable is probably at or over $100k adding on the motors/platter/cartridges

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raccoon.bmp
Feb 16, 2023

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triple sulk posted:

IEM manufacturer announces a new flagship model and you will never guess the price

(Hint, you know it's bad when even the Head-Fi community is making GBS threads on you)

it's $8500

Hey now, don't forget that price includes an upgraded version of a $2,700 $3,700 cable with shielding for your earbuds.

I do genuinely enjoy them naming their earbuds after a piece by a guy who cut off his own ear though.

raccoon.bmp
Feb 16, 2023

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About half the cost looks to be in milled aluminum and the 20(!) screws to hold the thing together


The site makes me wonder though, do extreme audiophiles not find enjoyment in music unless they buy something new? Every "testimonial" on every audiophile site mentions how dogshit the music sounded before they buy whatever it is, that their $40k sound systems would give them listening fatigue after an hour or two (??) until they got something to sharpen the corners of their 1's and 0's. It's all fake ofc but it paints a grim picture

raccoon.bmp
Feb 16, 2023

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Godzilla07 posted:

Michael Fremer himself decided to hop into the comments section to fight back against people refuting the claims that fuses can really have an impact on sound quality, in a very Trumpian voice:

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That's usually how things are discovered--by observations- closed minds aren't interested...

Dude's talking about an electrical component like he's a zoologist identifying a new species of deep sea fish. I wonder what he thinks goes on in an electrical engineering lab all day.

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