Ha. I love this thread. I live on an island where just having any power during a rainstorm is aspirational, let alone having any kind of stable, quiet power.  Here I'm happy to just have the little red and blue lights come on when I hit the switch. This thread reminds me of my previous life, before the island.

Audiophool.... that made me laugh, I have a bunch of friends that are into that audiophile thing and one time I joined audiophile forum, read a few topics and went for some audiophile shows... I felt like being in Flat Earth society... I can't really say what's wrong with the idea because I don't have technical knowledge, but somehow that felt so wrong. Specially music they are listening on their 2.000.000. stereo.

I mean their attention to detail to take your money, like with some small pyramids that you put around your living room for better sound, expensive cables, 24karat CDs... their imagination is insane...

It's like having sneakers with lights, can't we just enjoy music.

I remember once someone said that best stereo system from him was when he was little and took one of those antenna stereos from 70's and went to his room, cover with blanket and listen to his favorite station and feeling was so he remembers that for rest of his life. Imagine if he had a 2.000.000 dollars stereo in the room, that wouldn't sound so good in that time, because you would loos highs when covered with blanket... hehe

I mean I love how audiophiles enjoy their stereos and music, just I don't like their religion.

I remember back in the early 70's we had a friend who had a nice Marantz system in their living room (practically no other furniture but the sound system) and we would visit just to hear the thing.

Marantz?  Mere consumer-level stuff.

I never got into the high-end audiophile equipment (purely for monetary reasons), but when I got the insurance settlement for getting my face shredded in a car wreck, I did lay out for a JVC turntable, Yamaha integrated amp, and Infinity speakers; there were only one or two systems on our campus full of trust-fund hippies that could top it.  Cost almost as much as the new Triumph Spitfire I got at the same time.

Peter

My brother had a pair of Omega 300 speakers.   Pop the front off of them and kept his weed in the sound port.  😄

Somewhere in storage I believe I still have an old, incredibly basic, AR turntable, an AR amp, and a pair of Wharfdale speakers with the sand-filled back.

Bill, tgo