High End Amp Price Collapse musings

@jimman2

Quite amusing as I have not owned a piece of vinyl in over 15 years but my 16 year old daughter loves her vinyl and has paid some  (imho) exorbitant prices for some of them, so yes I would agree that Vinyl is hot right now.
And now I am even possibly moving away from a cd spinner with the purchase of a bluesound vault 2
horses for courses

Uberwaltz, I have an iPad with current iOS and BlueSound app.  The Vault will update itself periodically as needed.  I have a Signal Cable Digital Reference power cord with Furutech C7 termination on its way...what the Hell, figure it can't help!  I also run my Vanguard and Vault through a Transparent ISO DUO power outlet.

Can't hurt;)

My Lyngdorf unit is digital so I am referring to newer amp technology in general.

 

It seems that the people critical of Class D amps haven’t given them a fair shake/listen

I can only speak to my specific experiences, as can any of us. However, as I have posted previously, I did give the Acoustic Imagery Atsah, Ncore, NC1200 monoblock amplifiers a fair shake, since I purchased them, owned them, played them in my system for over a year, and during that time period compared them head-to-head with three other really good amps, two of which I still own. It was amplifier roulette for awhile and I surprisingly learned that, sort of like Dorothy, I had actually started with my ideal amplifier several years earlier but just didn’t realize it. Since I had sold those original amps (to a buyer who enjoys them to this day) I was fortunate to find another pair and even more fortunate that Wilson Shen with Clayton Audio was still around to fully upgrade them so they sound awesome. Any of us who post here are speaking to our own experiences, systems, rooms, biases, etc., which is why anybody trying to find universal truth on these forums will eventually be disappointed.