I've just had a CD playback on a £350,000 Hi-Fi system

[Bilbo]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1394037819' post='2387234']
The point I am making, Bilbo, is that the sound as it is mixed in the studio is not an accurate representation of the performance anyway,
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I agree. I guess the end point, for me, is that, if the result is not what it was at point of origin, then it is neither better not worse, just different! I don't have any axe to grind here. I have an ok hi-fi that I rarely listen to because most of my listening nowadays is on the road. I think I probably do lose out in quality terms because it is all against a background of car noise, people noise etc and is mostly background rather than dedicated. A great sounding recording is a great thing, though. I accept that 100%

[PaulWarning]

I no longer have the HiFi bug, bit pointless now I've been diagnosed with industrial hearing loss
I will say this though, crap music is crap music no matter how much the system costs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0fM3tChADY

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[flyfisher]

Sounds a bit operatic to me.

[PaulWarning]

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1394051030' post='2387462']
Sounds a bit operatic to me.
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like I said

[bubinga5]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1394045089' post='2387358']
That is what I would describe as "sensible" crazy money, if that makes sense.

Always bear in mind , if you buy really expensive hifi equipment, you also have to budget for the price of a property with a space you can use as a dedicated listening room, because unless the environment is correct you won't hear anything like the true potential of the equipment.

I have had most of my own relatively modest system for several years, and none of my components are the latest thing by any means- my CD player dates back to the mid-1990's( but it is recognised classic), and the newest thing is my Exposure amp that I bought about five and a half years ago- but a good sound is a good sound , regardless of the age of the equipment, and I am very happy with the overall sound it makes. I know people who have spent a lot more money than me and ended up with systems they are far less happy with. That doesn't mean, however, that I don't recognise the superior performance and potential for enjoyment of much more costly and impressive gear than my own. If I had a more normal and settled home life I would probably have bought a much better system by now, but there seems little point when I seem to hardly get time to listen to it. .
[/quote]i think a good separate system is only as good as the room your sitting in. and as your point suggests, you really don't get the true potential in most home situations. i live in a detached house, so i have some great M Audio monitors for when the girlfriend is out, and some AKG's when she's in. i have a pair or 1980's KEF speakers that are fantastic, i think there called Cantor 3. huge things

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1394034483' post='2387176']
You are joking me? I've got one each of them. Well, i say I have, they're the wife's and she won't sell them. Bugger....
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Here you go - [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=dansette+tempo&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc"]completed listings on ebay uk for dansette tempos[/url]. Mostly around £200. A red one went for £511

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1394063508' post='2387670']
Here you go - [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=dansette+tempo&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc"]completed listings on ebay uk for dansette tempos[/url]. Mostly around £200. A red one went for £511
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Oh my, these might get lost from the house in the next big tidy....

Although I do enjoy the drunken nights stacking 45s up on them and upsetting the kids with terrible singles.

[hubrad]

Flanders and Swann.. 'People make an awful lot of fuss, anyway about the quality of the sound they listen to. Have you noticed; they spend all that time trying to get the exact effect of an orchestra actually playing in their sitting room. Personally, I can't think of anything I should hate more than an orchestra actually playing in my sitting room.' :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_DptPvj7ts

[gelfin]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202777105564727&set=a.4218322092312.2172608.1112932834&type=1

[Diablo]

I don't get it - once you get past a certain point in playback and speakers the room becomes the sound quality driver. You can spend £1m on gear and put it into a tinny small high ceiling box and it will sound terrible. Put same gear into a theatre, and even better again a theatre filled with people, and you will not recognise it I from the same gear. My bass setup sounds terrible in my rehearsal room, but in an open pub/hall with people in it sounds totally different to the point punters tell me it sounds great. Same gear - different room. Even people moving around in a room change the sound as does temp, air pressure etc. Remember it is just a bunch of waves in air at the end of it all.

All I can say - If I spent £350k on a stereo it would need to be custom built into a Bentley....

Cheers,
Rich