frend2001
Well-Known Member
Hi FMs
The term audiophile has spread like a wildfire.
The day is not far in future, when you'd be buying a pirated MP3 from that bearded guy on footpath and He'd offer you a ten times expensive version of the same CD, claiming it to be of Audiophile quality.
Actually shopkeepers are doing that today while selling us earphones, headphones, AV cables and drivers/speakers. While buying drivers for a DYI speaker project, a guy tried selling me some cheapo driver which had "AUDIOPHILE" slapped on the outer box....duhh.
What and Who is an Audiophile ???
The defination on wikipedia is "An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction"
Yeah right I'm also after hi-fi sound reproduction.
But for being called an audiophile, do I have to buy a super expensive cable which cost an arm and a leg and maybe right testicle ?
well read this :
In Denmark there is a fairly new cable company selling high end, super expensive cables, ZenSati.
Several of their cables costs something like 20'000 Euros.
In the last year they have been revealed to buy their cables cheap from a Taiwanese cable company, Jinwei.
Yeah after having read this article couldn't stop myself from writing these lines.
I nither know nor am any authority about audiophile stuff, but hey....I understand the desire of a common man to achieve the best reproduction of music that's possible, but why there so many gimmicks, expensive cables, gold plated connectors and what not.....gimmi a break.
A good shielded copper cable is well soldered connectors is as good as any super hi-fi one.
A lot of my friends are spilling their money over useless stuff, I mean what good is a gold plated connector when you don't have properly matched speaker and amplifier.
Just to boast and chest thumping somebody buys a cable or connector which is exorbitantly high priced and thinks that yeah now the hi-fi sound reproduction will make him dizzy.......phew.
It's a chain and any fairly priced source, media, amplifier, driver will give the pleasure which it ought to give and you ought to experience.
I don't want to offend any FM and friends here, but I just had to write these few line to let off the steam that's been building up in me.
Invest is a decent setup and gradually progress in higher and much serious stuff one by one.
Just my penny's worth.
The term audiophile has spread like a wildfire.
The day is not far in future, when you'd be buying a pirated MP3 from that bearded guy on footpath and He'd offer you a ten times expensive version of the same CD, claiming it to be of Audiophile quality.
Actually shopkeepers are doing that today while selling us earphones, headphones, AV cables and drivers/speakers. While buying drivers for a DYI speaker project, a guy tried selling me some cheapo driver which had "AUDIOPHILE" slapped on the outer box....duhh.
What and Who is an Audiophile ???
The defination on wikipedia is "An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction"
Yeah right I'm also after hi-fi sound reproduction.
But for being called an audiophile, do I have to buy a super expensive cable which cost an arm and a leg and maybe right testicle ?
well read this :
In Denmark there is a fairly new cable company selling high end, super expensive cables, ZenSati.
Several of their cables costs something like 20'000 Euros.
In the last year they have been revealed to buy their cables cheap from a Taiwanese cable company, Jinwei.
Yeah after having read this article couldn't stop myself from writing these lines.
I nither know nor am any authority about audiophile stuff, but hey....I understand the desire of a common man to achieve the best reproduction of music that's possible, but why there so many gimmicks, expensive cables, gold plated connectors and what not.....gimmi a break.
A good shielded copper cable is well soldered connectors is as good as any super hi-fi one.
A lot of my friends are spilling their money over useless stuff, I mean what good is a gold plated connector when you don't have properly matched speaker and amplifier.
Just to boast and chest thumping somebody buys a cable or connector which is exorbitantly high priced and thinks that yeah now the hi-fi sound reproduction will make him dizzy.......phew.
It's a chain and any fairly priced source, media, amplifier, driver will give the pleasure which it ought to give and you ought to experience.
I don't want to offend any FM and friends here, but I just had to write these few line to let off the steam that's been building up in me.
Invest is a decent setup and gradually progress in higher and much serious stuff one by one.
Just my penny's worth.