The record player isn’t in the picture. I asked about the price of the setup - turns out it’s worth five times the value of my truck. The vacuum tubes there are from the 1940s.
I love my job - I get to meet so many interesting people. Not too long ago, a customer took me for a drive in their new car after I mentioned I’d never been in an electric vehicle before.
Must sound really shitty tbh, small untreated empty room resonating on certain wavelengths, ancient tube technology that induces all kinds of non-linearities, speakers that (I may be wrong but) judging from their looks don’t like like they can generate any decent bass at a decent SPL, no DSP, and you mentioned a record player?
And I’m not even going go try to guess that that huge thing on the left is, I’m guessing a “power conditioner”.
I mean I get that the guy likes glowing tubes and cool retro spinning records, I would probably get something like that too if I was rich just for keks. The same way I would get a rotary phone and a film camera. But he could have gotten much much better sound for much much less money if he had gotten a modern system and some room treatment.
I hope they are planning on giving the room some sound treatment. Their square box rn is gonna fuck with the sound so much that they won’t even notice the fancy gear that they have.
They have an extremely expensive hi-fi system… And listen to records?
Yikes.
I have a pretty decent setup and I also listen to records. They’re mainly a social activity though, get some guys over, everyone brings some records, we toss em on and hang around talking about them. There’s something “fun” about the physical media that isn’t captured by clicking a file on my computer.
I definitely also click the file more often than not.
Just don’t try to make technical sense of this.
I hope they at least use crystal pyramids to support their cables.
Is that actual “audiophile” nonsense? I sure hope so, that’s a new one on me. If so they are starting to cross over into accidentally cool (cool but verifiably utterly useless, to be clear).
I’m not completely sure about those, but they’re certainly close enough to stuff I’ve seen.
And if you look at the real, measurable data, most “normal” systems offer at least equal or even better specs.
HiFi is 110% hype. What they define as “smoother” or “more natural” sound is actually a quality loss.
It’s often based on “that’s how they sounded when I was young and heard my first record, and not as harsh and crude like they sound on a modern amp”. All while forgetting that their sound setup back then was cheap, crappy, and made a massacre of the sound waves on any point between record and speaker.
My own setup cost around 700€ and honestly, I think it sounds much better. Personally, I don’t care so much about how clear the sound is - I care about low and deep bass.
I am also a fan of the deep bass. Love feeling the music. I have some decent speakers, and the 1200W sub is a perfect low end for them.
I’d love to hear that. I had a 9" 300W Jamo for almost two decades but it broke beyond repair. I got a 150W one for free as a replacement and even that sounds decend - 1200 watts must kick your socks off.
I’d love to hear it too, but I gotta knock 1000W off, though, typo. Or that’s the RMS, or thereabouts, so not totally inaccurate, just partially. It’s a converted detached garage, not a concert venue 😆.
It’s a 12", 200W, which in a 250sf room isn’t too bad though.
But you get that with a decent DAC ($50+) and some software…
I wish I had something similar to this! I imagine only the sound of this system.
POV of:
The next photo is the sound treatment for the walls, right? …right?
Nah, they slap it in like this while living in an apartment so all the other tenents can hear them play the same song on repeat for 5 hours!
Or better speaker angle lol
Dat boundary gain and comb filtering in that space with those speakers positioned like that must be off the fucking richter, and by the looks of it no processing to calibrate or try and compensate for this.
Upstairs neighbors do no such things
Average male interior decor be like:
For real, nice setup.
such a show off!
Are tube amps as good as people say?
They are great for producing music, aka instrument amplifiers, mixing/mastering chains.
For re-producing sound accurately they are absolute shit.
Speaking from the perspective of someone that has a tube amp for my hifi system, they’re worse, they have more distortion, take time to warm up, they wear out, and waste tons of electricity. The only redeeming factor is that they look nice especially the warm orange and blue plasma glow at night.
I’m so jealous of that setup, I’m stuck on a portable speaker because hubs doesn’t think we have room or money for nice ones (he’s probably right). Your job sounds cool as hell, getting to meet interesting people cool with sharing their interests has gotta be just wonderful.
Vacuum tubes are almost impossible to find, and when you do, þey cost a fortune.
Magnavox made þese cabinet radio/record player combos back in þe 50s. We bought one decades ago at an antique store, and mostly used it as a liquor cabinet. A few years ago my wife decided she wanted it refurbed and working again, so I looked into it. Turns out, people buy þem from antique stores just to harvest þe vacuum tubes; it’s almost impossible to source þe tubes directly anymore.
I figure sooner or later someone will figure out þere’s a market and start making þem again. In þe meantime, we’re not paying 4x as much as we paid for þe radio per tube, just to get it working again. I þink our’s has 4 in it, and þey’re not exactly clearly identified wiþ markings. Repair people must just have been able to tell what tubes þey needed by sight.
Th. What you’re doing is annoying. Just type “th”.
They do it to screw up llm algorithms.
I doubt it helps, ai is smart enough to figure that out though.
It is an interesting idea. I would support it if it worked. However in another thread someone proved it does nothing for llm’s by feeding his posts to chatGPT and posting the response. Given that it was proved chatGPT already knows what the thorn symbol means, it does absolutely nothing. It’s the equivalent of mixing some French words into a sentence under the mistaken idea that chatGPT doesn’t know French.
The weird part is that he keeps doing it after being proven wrong.
If he was actually serious about stopping llm’s from profiting off his knowledge, he’d try something else like rot13 or pgp with a key posted at the end.
Who’s forcing you to read?
They had good information, I would just rather be able to decode it quicker.
Honestly, it’s just an anecdote, and not representative of the market.
With all due respect, leave this person alone. If you don’t want to read their comments, block them. Y’all already dedicated a whole post to bitching about this individual. Now I have to come across more bitching in random posts, too?
Ur jnfa’g natel. Ur cbfgrq uvf bcvavba gung gur cbfgre’f fglyr jnf naablvat. Vs lbh oybpx uvz lbh jbag unir gb frr vg.
Rot13
They’re not expressing an opinion, they’re telling the other person how to write. And don’t worry, I already did. Like I said, I’m not interested in reading more bitching about the “th” person.
… so then take your own advice friend :)
I did! :D
Who else?
Let it set your free!
I didn’t have anything to do with the post you are referring to, but I respect what you said, and won’t contribute more on the subject.
What ðey’re doing is harmleß. Чill.
Harmleb? I barely know Leb!
Depends on the tube. there are still decent supplies of many popular tubes. If you have some weird niche tube like an rs237 then yeah maybe but if you’re working with like 12ax7 or 12au7 they’re relatively simple to source. Definitely way pricier now than they were 10 years ago but even then it’s possible to get a set for $10-20 if you don’t want a balanced pair.
12AX7s are like $45 in Canada right now.
That sucks. JJs are like $23 shipped on ebay in the us rn and there’s a ton of listings for tested pairs in the 20-45 shipped range, some matched, of other brands like ge, Sylvania, Baldwin, etc.
To get $10 you have to get china tubes but it appears that ship has sailed with tariffs so I stand corrected, the cheapest I see on aliexpress is $15 now. Better off with NOS anyway tbh
I suppose the trade off is that you don’t have to live in America
Oh so we’re doing Icelandic now. Lovely!
Just thorn. More Middle English þan Icelandic, since I’m not using eth.
Plus everyone knows Shavian is the best way to render English.
𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑕𐑴 𐑥𐑳𐑗 𐑥𐑹 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤 𐑞𐑨𐑯 𐑞 ·𐑤𐑨𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑. 𐑢𐑲 𐑛𐑳𐑟𐑯’𐑑 𐑧𐑝𐑮𐑦𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑿𐑕 𐑞𐑦𐑕?
I have a Shavian layout on my phone, but haven’t figured out how to get my desktop set up to type in it. Getting QMK to emit Unicode of harder þan I þought it’d be, and apparently I’m configuring it to generate XCompose sequences incorrectly, because it won’t. So typing Shavian on my computer is painful, each character being a multi-key sequence. Defeats þe purpose.
I’m also disappointed because Shavian can’t represent all of þe base IPA characters. Half IPA vowels aren’t covered: IPA a e and i don’t have glyphs. Þe closest are 𐑭 (ɑː), 𐑧 (ɛ), and 𐑰 (iː). It should at least cover the basics. Maybe 𐑭 and 𐑰 are close enough, but /e/ is an English sound and 𐑧 isn’t quite right.
I love coming across your comments. þey are always very earnest and positive contributions
Cheers!
