I’ve always been a fan of simple well made $1000 systems.
It takes effort on the part of the user of such, though.
Most throw money at it trying to get it to work, when effort is the part that makes it work. Throwing money at the problem can be ineffective and take far longer to get the same spot that could have been reached years earlier via effort.
Learn. Grow. think. Logic. All in the service of the emotions we attempt to invoke, when hearing great reproduction.
Most folks who are here, though, are enthusiasts and tend to put in some to more effort.
$1000?
sure.
Buy the right speakers. Upgrade them.
Buy the right amplifier. Upgrade it.
Buy the right source device. Upgrade it.
Buy the right cables.. Of course, upgrading here can be a problem.
Sites that cater to the DIY audio enthusiast have fairly large followings. Such groups probably outnumber the percentage of people on audiophile forums. There is a reason for that.
Not a fan of class D, though. The sound they produce is mostly noise/hash, misheard as detail, due to how the ear processes signal. Most audio equipment (pretty well 100%, actually) is guilty of this sort of sin. A little of each, darker and noise/hash as detail a a pair of sonic bookends. It is literally the nature of electronics. Class D pushes this too far in the one direction. It can take time to discern this point.
Class D will probably take the same path as Digital. Where it (digital) was a step backward at first, and felt by some to be superior and pushed as superior. This (digital) was uniquely a industry wide corporate push, though. Then over the next 20-30 years, it (class D and digital) approaches the quality of what was available before in the prior technology, and then it is realized, openly, at that time...that it was a degradation, not an advance. But we’re much better now! Really! (will be the admission in 20 years, re Class D......)
But hey, if folks like it and it makes for them having fun with tunes, who am I to argue.
It takes effort on the part of the user of such, though.
Most throw money at it trying to get it to work, when effort is the part that makes it work. Throwing money at the problem can be ineffective and take far longer to get the same spot that could have been reached years earlier via effort.
Learn. Grow. think. Logic. All in the service of the emotions we attempt to invoke, when hearing great reproduction.
Most folks who are here, though, are enthusiasts and tend to put in some to more effort.
$1000?
sure.
Buy the right speakers. Upgrade them.
Buy the right amplifier. Upgrade it.
Buy the right source device. Upgrade it.
Buy the right cables.. Of course, upgrading here can be a problem.
Sites that cater to the DIY audio enthusiast have fairly large followings. Such groups probably outnumber the percentage of people on audiophile forums. There is a reason for that.
Not a fan of class D, though. The sound they produce is mostly noise/hash, misheard as detail, due to how the ear processes signal. Most audio equipment (pretty well 100%, actually) is guilty of this sort of sin. A little of each, darker and noise/hash as detail a a pair of sonic bookends. It is literally the nature of electronics. Class D pushes this too far in the one direction. It can take time to discern this point.
Class D will probably take the same path as Digital. Where it (digital) was a step backward at first, and felt by some to be superior and pushed as superior. This (digital) was uniquely a industry wide corporate push, though. Then over the next 20-30 years, it (class D and digital) approaches the quality of what was available before in the prior technology, and then it is realized, openly, at that time...that it was a degradation, not an advance. But we’re much better now! Really! (will be the admission in 20 years, re Class D......)
But hey, if folks like it and it makes for them having fun with tunes, who am I to argue.