Any hifi buffs/nerds here?

[dan_b]

Just wondering if there are any fellow audiophiles lurking around the Round Table of Camelot?

Would happily have a non-renewables nerd-athon about hifi set-ups if anyone is so inclined.

[Stinsy]

Just wondering if there are any fellow audiophiles lurking around the Round Table of Camelot?

Would happily have a non-renewables nerd-athon about hifi set-ups if anyone is so inclined.

I've messed around with audio quite a bit in my time. Very hard to get decent stuff these days, no one cares about sound quality anymore, it seems.

My decades-old Sony ES AMP and Cambridge Audio floorstanding speakers are doing a great job.

[dan_b]

Glad to hear there’s someone out there!

I’ve recently started buying actual physical copies of music again - Spotify is convenient and good enough for the car but at home I would still like to sit down and just listen!

My set up is getting on for 15-20 years old for various components. As you say it’s more about convenience and consumption than quality these days but there are still companies out there making good products.

[Joeboy]

Not an audiophile but I do have a nice set of birth year B&O speakers with an Onkyo reciever and Majority dab radio. I do consider a fancier set up now and then, maybe increase my vinyl collection.

[dan_b]

I've got a Majority DAB as well - it's got internet radio on it too and there are some great stations out there - Swiss Radio Jazz is one of my favourites.

[Stig]

I built a pair of these speakers ~25 years ago:



My brother's design (speaker design was part of his PhD), my woodwork -MDF with oak veneer.

I find that I don't just sit and listen to music as much as I used to though. I still buy CDs rather than downloads / streaming though.

[dan_b]

Wow those are cool!

[MikeNovack]

Back in the early 60's I used to laugh. My little brother (two years younger) was an audiophile, had pretty good equipment. Some of which he made himself. At the same time I was also working with electronics/high precision amplifiers << op amps for what we thought the world's biggest/fastest differential analyzer*r >> Not 3 db (100%) between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz but 0.01% between ~ 1 Hz and 100 KHz. Now THAT is "fidelity".

BTW, that experience turned me off on computers for the next two decades. We had a MTBF of about 10 minutes.

* We couldn't imagine why the spooks might want a differential analyzer, but if they did, they could have secret ones we didn't know about.