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Listening is mostly done with my wife, she is very unwilling to let go of older equipment due to memories I assume. My daughter (age 17) loves music and regularly wants to listen to some songs. If I play music from her playlist she will leave her room to come and listen and sings along. We...

Not familiar with the McIntosh business model. I do admire Nelson Pass's business model. He managed to widen his customer base (and thus his volume), by entering complimentary markets whilst keeping the alure of his halo products. Imo the latter is key to attain and hold your gross margin...

Yes, high-end audio must be engineered-driven. Very few business people understand it, volume + high margins is virtually impossible to attain. Super high-margins and low volume is however not out-of-reach. The super high-margins does not result in super net profits due to low volume. This is...

Halcro fell into a similar trap, the tech was seeked by the mining industry early on. Made the founder/owner/engineer an offer he couldn't refused (after all its mining industry capital vs. high-end audio), and Halcro was relegated to plodding along. Just read pwatts already divulge the detail

I saw two differentiators - race (African Americans 90/10 for DM* and Jews 90/10 for DM) and liberal college eductated youth (all races 90/10 for DM). It would seem most other was split 50/50 with maybe 5 variance on both sides. * splitting the African American vote among gender lines was...

Streaming is the new cables, probably a few differences in sound quality but so much more fertile ground for opinions, debate and disagreement.

Melody Gardot - what a find, thank you!

No reason at all. Took the CD player to the main hifi and jsut stacked all together.

Yes, I use these in both set-ups

Second system. Used for casual listening and as TV speakers. The Rotel's I bought from Saunders in Bloemfontein LONG ago, travelled with to far-fetched places. In one of these, Macedonia (FYROM), I bought the 805's. Speaker stands made in Macedonia. Wooden stand made in SA. Still have all the...

Manon des Sources, before that Jean de Florette. Both at Franschhoek theatre.

Everything is wrong with that cover photo - the guy's hair is natural, he smokes, he smiles, he is looking straight at the camera. One can imagine he actually enjoyed making the album/music. Can only be fake news!

For those interrested in comparing two different recordings of the same set (Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme), the first with microphones very close to the instruments and the second with more strategic placing of the microphones. The latter results in a much better 3D experience. 1...

30.5 Was the most musical of the lot I listened to.

Aurender X100L First streamer, purchase new Reasons: storage size of 12TB (streaming options very limited back then and I use to purchase online mostly), reviews (sound quality, build quality, support), ease of use, SSD playback. My take: everything on this product oozes quality. Best...

Channel Classics for DSD HDTT - High Definition Tape Transfer does an excellent job of converting classic recordings to digital. They wait for the music rights to expire then convert analogue recordings on tape to digital. Irrispective of the format the skill of the soind engineer makes a...

Only outclassed by photoshop!

About 10 years ago I learned from a local musician and sound engineer Apple demanded at minumum hifi quality when securing music rights (unable to recall the exact resolution but I was suprise since the digital music debate was relatively subdued in the public domain at that stage). In this way...

And I omitted to mention, I do know Pervashen well. His excitement for high-end is second to none