Audio gurus your help is kindly requested - Cured

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Audio gurus your help is kindly requested

Posted by Cured on January 5, 2003 at 07:44:03

OK, I have decided to get off the audiophile rollercoaster and just spend more time doing other things I have neglected, like excercise, more time with my children, a greater focus on work etc.
I sold the last of my high dollar toys DAC/transport and I am now in search of a decent sub $300 CD player. C'mon I know you can work your audio 'mo-jo' with sub multi-kilo machines recommendations, let's see how you do with a poe-man's quandry? I am not into fancy lables, what it used to cost. The only criteria is value & musicality. I will make it easier for you by sharing my other sub $350 little engines the could...

Linn Sondek LP-12 Basik LV X spent $150 about twenty years old, but excellent a real steal!!!!!
Philly Audio 7b tube preamp cost $325 a young hungry small guy great stuff
Grado Gold $100 mounted
ASL Wave 8 cost $215 with covers and detachable AC everyone one should have a pair of these
Mission m71 $150 slapped myself for owning Proac's that couldn't get it on like these can
Kimber PBJ no one could ever convince me to use anything else not even if it were for free!
Speaker cable AQ type 4
Basik-Rak by Micheal Greene monitor stands $99

Hey when was the last time you heard a guy brag about how little he spent on his rig? My old system cost me about 14x too much as the above and the only thing I was missing in that system was the ability to sit down and listen to the music and not the soundstage, timbre, texture and all that other mumbo-jumbo that makes nerds of us all. I had become a SONIC EXTRACTIVIST no longer music fanactic. I found out unless you live in a audiophile village no one gives a rat's ass how much you spent on your rig :-( All of my friends "conquest" thought it all was rather OK women are wierd they find it hard to make a connection with things. Go figure?!

Thanks for the help

Wishing for a cure

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Topic - Audio gurus your help is kindly requested - Cured 07:44:03 01/5/03 (14)

Do yourself a favor... - old geezer 20:42:51 01/7/03 (0)

Off Topic: Curious about Philly Audio. - Zero 18:41:59 01/6/03 (0)

I agree regarding the modded DIO - jackman 17:22:13 01/6/03 (0)

ditto NAD 541i rec, great player, even greater transport - pturn 12:53:41 01/6/03 (0)

Art DI/O DAC and any good CD Transport - dave 21:56:07 01/5/03 (0)

Nows the time to try a Sony SACD player - jk@home 14:31:26 01/5/03 (0)

Re: Audio gurus your help is kindly requested - SETdude 12:58:45 01/5/03 (1)

Re: Audio gurus your help is kindly requested - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 15:15:50 01/5/03 (0)

Congratulations - A.J. 08:12:35 01/5/03 (5)

I second the Marantz CD6000ose. Also check out the CD17 and Rega Planet - SAT 13:58:34 01/6/03 (2)

Re: I second the Marantz CD6000ose. Also check out the CD17 and Rega Planet - Tourist 03:57:33 01/7/03 (1)

Re: I second the Marantz CD6000ose. Also check out the CD17 and Rega Planet - SAT 07:02:28 01/7/03 (0)

Re: Congratulations - ANDRE 15:04:23 01/5/03 (0)

NAD C521i or C541i (nt) - Vinnie R. 08:53:32 01/5/03 (0)

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