Torpedo

Even a decent mid-level.

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Them Dirty Blues

Interesting rant, James. As I'm seeing it is that nowadays the sound quality you get from an affordable device (let's say a chinese smartphone with a 50 bucks pair of IEMs) is superior to anything you'd say it sounded just decent 50 years ago when Hiend audio was developing to get its heyday. Even listening to current lossy files the sound quality has a better dynamic range, less noise, wider frequency range and less distortion than what you were getting from an expensive top of the line Sony Walkman in the 80's. The problem is that Hiend isn't justifying the prices for a better sound, it has become another luxury good more likely to show how "winner" and exclusive is its owner than to provide an improved, more intense, listening experience. This is the move we've been seeing on "exclusive" watches, cars, clothes... anything that is targeted to those few millions of humans that for one reason or another have a few millions yearly to spend just to show off. Since those riches create the trend, then the lower income wannabes target to more affordable yet very expensive products that still will show off how successful and "winner" they are. They're still way wealthier than average, they can afford a 150.000 BMW SUV but not a 1M Bugatti, nor a 500.000 Ferrari. Manufacturers have now a really big market of high rent individuals that would allow them to sell the same shit at 10x the price. Possibly the same amount of people that in the 60's were able to afford a pair of Quad 57 with a matching amplifier and Thorens turntable. Manufacturers aren't stupid, nor their shareholders. If you can sell a camera/watch/speaker/whatever for a several thousands, why getting a lower profit would be acceptable? The paradigm has shifted to the higher prices/benefit as long as the whole production can be sold for a bulkier price. The world has got a load of wealthy ones in the last couple of decades while the middle class (former market of these goods) has got poorer. It's clearly more profitable selling your production at a much higher price/benefit than trying to produce a larger number of items at a lower cost to reach a wider market. Possibly the planet will benefit of this trend too.

Melissa Aldana - Back Home (2016) It can be listened to on Spotify. Tidal doesn't have it available and despite being just 3 year old, the CD is unobtanium. If someone finds it at a reasonable price please let me know. There's a copy in Amazon for just around $57.

Only 300 decks of the 30 model in 20 years? That's really low, I wasn't expecting that. However this "new" luxury market driven by the several millions of ultra wealthy guys with no idea on what's value, might allow them to sell the same 15 decks/year for 2x, 3x, or possibly higher, the current price. They just need the right ads in the right places and convincing the buyers that there's a shortage and a waiting list. If it doesn't work they can get back to the old business model which didn't seem to make them rich either.

I'm afraid they'll succeed, there are way too many rich fools in the planet, they just need to grease the right machinery.

Very Happy Birthday, Todd!

I read the review. Please, by all means let us know how do those Klipsch perform. The world needs more efficient and sensitive devices. And people, probably.

Planars? OMG those are usually hard to drive bitches. Being headphones the Elekit should be more than enough. What about the speakers, what are yours? For Stax the bottleneck is the transformer, so I can imagine the results. I wish I had 98db/w/m speakers or higher sensitivity to try a 300B SET.

Based on the new Tesla thing? They nailed it, it's equally horrible.

I've learned today that Mariss Jansons died the 30th at 76 from cardiovascular disease. He was expected in Madrid to conduct the Bayerische Rundfunk next January

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Happy Birthday, Bryan!

Amanda Fucking Palmer making fun of Brexit

Happy Birthday!!!

Yes, have a happy one wherever you are

^Have a great time. That they like it is way less important

Most likely under thinking [emoji57]

I wish you have a great day

Happy Birthday, Mikey! Have a great pure malt one.

This price scheme isn't ready in Europe yet In Spain they're offering these same plans, keeping mp3 and being a lot more expensive. Until they don't drop them a bit I'm staying with Tidal.

Buckshot LeFonque - Buckshot LeFonque (1994) One of those albums reminding me how much I missed during my residency years, and how little the music has evolved in the last 25 years.

I had got in my "watch later" list at Youtube a video by Glenn Gould speaking about the fugue. The video got removed for © issues, but some clever chinese guy got it uploaded elsewhere. Were you interested: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av11601100/

Stay safe. Best wishes.