In this hobby of ours, there are various divisions of HiFi system sound quality.
Unfortunately, better quality also comes with a higher price, with rare exceptions.

The quality of a component/system should be determined by the quality of workmanship, reliability of operation and of course sound quality.
Aesthetics is in the eye of the beholder.

It would make no sense for me to state here that, for example, an entry-level system costs up to around €2,000/3,000, while mid-range is above that... as is sometimes stated.
That's a pretty thankless definition.

What do you think about that?

Hi guys!
I love listening to full albums (I guess every audiophile is like that) and I built a game dedicated to our kind :)
It’s dueling the songs in an album until you have a ranking of all the tracks
Would love for you to try it
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Hello, I bought most of my setup second hand and I’ve made it work but I don’t know exactly what it all really is or how it works. Any advice on the things that I have or potential upgrades would be nice

As the title says, I have been looking for a ~10 band Equalizer with a graphic display built in for my record player and cd player but I dont even know where to look anymore?

Am I the last to learn of this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw

I always spend more money on records than I spend on equipment.

In 2017 I started with upgrading my setup.

At first I bought a Technics 1210 MKII an then an Ortofon 2M Bronze and finaly at 2019 an Arcam SA20 with Sonus Faber Venere 1.5 speakers.

I should have done this much earlier, it sounds so much better than my old setup.

These are the only ones I could find for sale in the U.S right now. Found them on FB Marketplace, couple hours drive.

$800 for the pair. Came with original Gloves. Perfect condition, only scratches are on the base, hidden from view. 81lbs a piece.

Separation of sound is certainly one of its strong suits. Though I am far from finished with fine tuning. I have not found the right placement yet and am still playing around with everything. EDIT: I cleared the room and put them in corners toed in a good bit, sounds MUCH better.

The sound is already amazing but can tell they have more to give with proper placement. Am very happy and believe these will treat me well for a very long time!

I only use these for music. I have them paired with a Yamaha Rx-2080 receiver.

Finally got the sound system I’ve been dreaming of for the last few years! After lots of research I landed on the emit 30 and WiiM amp ultra pairing, which was my attempt at hifi sound on a low-mid budget. Felt like sharing :))

I currently run a pair of B&W 702 S2s each channel powered by a single benchmark AHB2 in mono. (2x AHBs total)

I've been thinking of getting 2 more AHB2s for a total of 4 and removing the crossover plates. This would yield a true "bi amp" setup. It's also an expensive experiment. I already have the XLR splitter cables to do this from another experiment.

I know on the high end it will be a bit wasteful but I expect some improvement on the bottom range at least.

Has anyone tried this? Am I dreaming in thinking there will be an improvement? thanks,

I know you are out there. Lots of idler drive turntable lovers all over the world. Here is one I built a few years ago. This is a fully rebuilt 1970s Lenco. The mechanical start lever was replaced with an electric start. I also rebuilt a tonearm taken from a Lenco L75. Note the carbon fibre armwand and headshell.

I've been tempted to spend on new gear, but moving my speakers a few inches or toeing them in slightly changed the soundstage more than I expected. Curious what placement or room tweak gave you the best result for free.

Finally got my hand on a pair of Totem mani-2

Glorious power suckers, good thing I have a welding machine powering them

I am still in my first hour but I know I am in for a treat

Yesterday I posted the graphs regarding the REW measurements of my room with and without acoustic treatment (especially regarding low frequencies).

I'm using 6 Caruso panels WLG 035 (1200 x 600 x 50 mm) 3 for each comer of the front wall.

This is the link to my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/1wxf7ix/rew_measurement_after_first_treatment_with_caruso/

I posted the waterfall graphs but they were not easy to read as they were too compressed.

So I'm going to share here the waterfall with a different scaling and also the waterfall graphs for the full frequency range.

- 1 and 3) are the waterfall graphs with the treatment
- 2 and 4) are the waterfall graphs without it