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Thanks for posting that!

Did you get a chance to hear "The Clue?"

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Thanks for posting that!

Did you get a chance to hear "The Clue?"

Ahh, deja vu all over again.

No, I have no clue about "The Clue."

Dave

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As I read more of the Stereophile Show Blog, I am thinking I am losing my religion.

Just speakers...going in order down the blog page....

JBL 1400 = $11,500

Acoustic Zen's Crescendo = 16,000

RM Loudspeakers' CH-11R = $17,500 - $20,000/pair

Eficion F250 = $9250/pair (with a fucking 10,000 rack, no less!)

LSA Statement 1 minimonitors....hallalouie...only $2,600 (in a $18,000 set up...with $8,000 speaker wires.)

Audio Kinesis Strato Prism = $4,400

Harbeth Super HL5 stand mounts = $4,995

Audio Machina speakers, with woofers, no less = $20,000

Verity Audio Leonore = $15,995

Studio Electric monitors, with "handsome retro gill" = $2,450

Wilson Sophia = $16,900

Thus concludes page one of the blog on my computer.

I have dug Hi Fi since I was a tween, but I am having a serious case of "no effing way" with some of these trends...and then they start in with the Hi Fi vs. "High End" bullshit.

For a small fetish industry, we seem to be overly willing to mix S&M pricing into getting our aural jollies.

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BTW, the JRDG Model 625 is Class AB, around 300-wpc stereo, combining power factor correction with "no overall negative feedback." For now, Rowland continues with their excellent Class D line of electronics, but the new products are Jeff's very latest twist on class AB.

The show amp was not completed until 11 p.m. the night before the show opened. It was in it production chassis and using production parts, but Jeff had hand assembled it. All his units are hand assembled, but by others under his supervision, in his shop, using precut wires, etc. He estimated that deliveries will start by year-end, now that he knows that it works. Actually, he was beaming the whole weekend because the amp worked so well, right off the bench. He said it was two-years from conception to completion, including the last year studying the layout and trying to achieve the shortest possible signal pathes while squeezing it all into the solid billet aircraft aluminum chassis and keeping parts apart that don't get along well. He succeeded.

There's a set of monoblocks coming out in the not-too-distant future.

Dave

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I hear you Buddha. Every system that I listed in this thread was at least 30k and the average was probably 50-ish and one or two are six-figures.

Soundsmith had nice sound also and I should have mentioned them. If you ignore the $13,000 Teres TT in their system, but used one of their more modest moving iron cartridges in a Project or Hall TT, a Pioneer Elite disc player, a Pioneer amp and one of Soundsmiths' excellent pairs of mini-monitors, you could have a very fine sounding system for high four-digits.

I've got over 30k invested in my system and wasn't really looking to upgrade, but the Rowland Model 625 has me jonesing again.

Dave

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As I read more of the Stereophile Show Blog, I am thinking I am losing my religion.

Just speakers...going in order down the blog page....

JBL 1400 = $11,500

Acoustic Zen's Crescendo = 16,000

RM Loudspeakers . . . . . . . . . .etc

Point taken, however, there's a hidden question here. How many of these examples are overpriced junk and how many are state of the art examples using expensive materials and therefore valid pricing?
Me, I don't grumble as some (notice I said SOME and not ALL) of the companies producing these sticker shock devices as they often include the advances first installed in their expensive modes in their cheaper ones and we all potentially benefit. Also we should keep in mind that what can be had these days for little money is frequently way ahead of what was available some years ago due to significant advances in materials science & construction techniques. (lets not get into Chinese slave labor here though)
Having said that I'm not denying that some silly money speakers etc are absolute rubbish obviously aimed at the near deaf, rich & gullible who want to impress their associates .

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As I read more of the Stereophile Show Blog, I am thinking I am losing my religion.

Just speakers...going in order down the blog page....

JBL 1400 = $11,500

Acoustic Zen's Crescendo = 16,000

RM Loudspeakers . . . . . . . . . .etc

Mebbe you would be happier with the speakers listed in my CEDIA blog.

Kal

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I agree with the OP that the Evolution Acoustics/DarTZeel/Playback Designs was one of the better rooms, and that the bass from the MiniMMTwos were overwhelming the room. The mids and highs were to die for, though. You should have stuck around to hear the Studer tape deck. Interestingly, this same setup sounded better in a similar sized room at the CA Audio Show in Emeryville, CA.

I also like the GamuT room as well, though even the smaller S5s bass was overwhelming the small room.

My favorite room was the Dynaudio Sapphire/T+A V-series room.

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Interested in Duke's speakers(AudioKinesis)

10k is my *personal* cut off for price. anything above that..well, hell with it.

these trade shows are all the same. I used to go to the MusikMesse in Frankfurt Germany every year..and although it was pro audio, it was a similar vibe. a visual masturbation session for rich white people. Actually, thats what hifi is anyway.. but these trade shows are particularly disgusting.

a carnival of materialist glory-holes.

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