I have listened to so many expensive and musically dead systems and I think it’s sad to believe money buy you better musik by default.
I thought this forum was about NAIM and music. I rarely visit now but used to contribute a lot on the old four.
I bother as I see the hard core NAIM and LINN approach disappear due to economical interest from the manufacturers. I still love and listen to musik whenever I can, even after nearly 50 years.
Are we mostly audiophiles? For me it’s all about the music.
I’m curious, what does that mean?
Source first.
I see. Never realized that’s “hard core.” Why is that?
That’s always been the approach I use for my system, and still is. I never though of it as hard core. My main focus is still on my record playing source.
I rather listen to a Klimax LP 12 (haven’t heard a NAIM TT) thru a NAIT 50 and the small ones than a Rega P10 thru the above system.
We are a bit rare as most think “balanced” system gets you most music.
BTW, the IBLs above was spectacular driven by a top LP12, 552/500.
Do you still have the Jetson armchairs?
I would say that my analog front end (turntable, two tonearms, two cartridges, phono-stage/psu, cables, isolation) is about 1/3 cost of my system, when considering retail replacement prices.
Yes, now with footstools.
Lovely to see two such fine examples of the DBL and IBL next to one another.
Then why not share on musical only forum or only on the music room here?
Those who share about possible upgrades in sound , so most of the threads in the forum, be it hifi corner or streaming audio, are audiophiles.
Who will spend 10 k on equipment without being an audiophile ?
For 1k you can buy a system which will give you music in a room, without interest in high fidelity audio.
However, looking at your system pic above, you are definitely an audiophile. And a music lover of course, as us all.
Audiophile for me is someone listening to sound and not music.
I compare and listen to equipment to get a better emotional experience. This can for me only be described by better or worse and not in terms of airy, bottom slam or such.
And I have found so many overpriced gear in the hi-fi industry proving price and performing rarely has something to do with each other, except for a few brands where NAIM is one of them.
In that case I am not an audiophile. But don’t think that it’s the correct meaning of the term.
But then, let’s leave it as it and listen to music.
Google states ‘Audiophile’ as;
An audiophile seeks to reproduce recorded music to achieve high sound quality, typically in a quiet listening space and in a room with good acoustics . Audiophiles attempt to achieve maximum sound quality through setting up high-end audio equipment.
Some people play music to listen to their system, and some people play their system to listen to music.
An audiophile might be one or the other, or a little of both. I am a tiny percentage of the former, since that’s what I do to audition, execute and verify a system change, but that’s not very often. I’m mostly a music lover and spend the vast majority of time with my system using it to enjoy listening to music.
…high sound quality…
Is that to connect emotionally to the music or hear every tiny little sound on the record?
Don’t try to convince me they are tied together, as the latter one can be emotionally stone dead. Those “super set-ups” use to need special hi rez recordings, often not very complex music without PRaT as signum.
