Hifi choice

kippen_noedel

diable wrote: »

My mate has 8000 vinyl records if he used one of those he would still be there in 2022 :rotfl:

If he was convreting to digital media, it wouldn't make any difference even spending £100k on a HiFi, it would still take the amount of time.

It was posted as an alternative to keep his missus happy and do the job he wants.

diable

kippen_noedel wrote: »

If he was convreting to digital media, it wouldn't make any difference even spending £100k on a HiFi, it would still take the amount of time.

It was posted as an alternative to keep his missus happy and do the job he wants.

The main thing os to keep the OP happy as he has mentioned that he likes the feel of vinyl and the fact that he has to "flip" the record (and smell the vinyl) and not having a cheap (£99) Korean usb turntable, having to buy a £399 laptop and maybe an external hard drive to back up his music which one day will fail.

All the OP wants is a DAB unit in the workshop, CD player a bonus and his wife convincing that what he bought years ago is the dogs danglies and a sound investment that will last for years and when friends pop around wonder at the sound of the unit and the fact that the OP is an expert in the field of sound reproduction and the wife can be proud that her husband is held in such high esteem (and stop hassling him)

You must still be young is all I can say and jeez when I have enough money I am going back to a valve amp.

The op could also resort to blackmail and buy his wife a nice pair of shoes and a handbag so she forgets about his HiFi lol

Lotus-eater

aliEnRIK wrote: »

If you love your system then keep it where it is. If she loves YOU then she should accept that its one of 'lifes luxuries' to you and she shouldnt be getting in the way of what you feel is something that makes YOU happy
Could you not put the entire seperates units inside of some sort of glass casing or suchlike, bed the speaker cables into the walls and just have the speakers showing with the grills off (Presumably connected to the wall)?
I love my system and if anyone told me its going then id simply tell them back it most certainly is NOT

:rotfl:

She's not that bad, I only make her out to be bad She's read all the thread anyway, not a bad SOH .......for a woman.
Because I was talking about spending money on some new stuff for the workshop, she remarked maybe it was better to spend money on stuff for the lounge and move my system (aka, those big, different colour, different shape things in the corner.... and btw WHY do the speaker grills have to be off?) outside and buy a new system for inside.
The problem is of course that to get the same sound, as someone pointed out, I would have to spend alot of money. My OH doesn't care about the quality, I do.

amcluesent

If her indoors is worried about the speakers, a set of Mordaunt-Short Avant 904i are the most keenly priced floor-standers which sound decent.

Lotus-eater

diable wrote: »

The main thing os to keep the OP happy as he has mentioned that he likes the feel of vinyl and the fact that he has to "flip" the record (and smell the vinyl) and not having a cheap (£99) Korean usb turntable, having to buy a £399 laptop and maybe an external hard drive to back up his music which one day will fail.

All the OP wants is a DAB unit in the workshop, CD player a bonus and his wife convincing that what he bought years ago is the dogs danglies and a sound investment that will last for years and when friends pop around wonder at the sound of the unit and the fact that the OP is an expert in the field of sound reproduction and the wife can be proud that her husband is held in such high esteem (and stop hassling him)

You must still be young is all I can say and jeez when I have enough money I am going back to a valve amp.

The op could also resort to blackmail and buy his wife a nice pair of shoes and a handbag so she forgets about his HiFi lol

The thing is, I don't want to go digital, I don't need to go digital and I can't see the point. I don't even own an ipod, I know I'd never use it if I had one.
I want to touch the vinyl, I want to smell the vinyl, I want to see the vinyl, I want to hear those imperfections in my favourite records, hear that sound, that (somehow) just doesn't seem to be reproduced in Cd's or anything newer. I completely admit this may well just be in my mind.

I think we have decided, (I've decided it's "we" and not "she") for my kit to go out to the workshop and to get some sort of CD thing for inside and maybe a portable dab thing to move around.

diable, I do have a investment in sound equipment, but it isn't this stuff I'll pm you.

No one and I repeat no one, is going to think I am an expert in sound reproduction, a couple of friends who are into it, think I live in the stone age with inferior kit and the rest wouldn't know the difference between a £1000 amp and a Alba portable from Comet.

I too will be going to a valve amp one day.

Thanks again and this turned out funny in the end.

Taffybiker

Lotus-eater wrote: »

She's not that bad, She's read all the thread anyway

Dear Mrs Lotus-Eater,

Please let Mr. Lotus-eater buy one of these for outside, or maybe this, and keep his rather superb existing music system for indoor use.
Quality is more important than looks.
As a compromise, he could at a later date when the wine flows more freely, replace those separates one at a time, and end up with a decent sounding matching system. That's the beauty of separates.

Kind Regards,
Taffybiker.