Post by sfgumshoe on Feb 13, 2023 19:07:10 GMT
I am looking to upgrade my home music listening system to something that would be considered “audiophile“ quality.
I currently listen to music in several rooms in our home on little Amazon Alexa units.
I was recently a guest at the home of a friend who received a recent gift of a stereo system whose value is over $100,000. The gift was a present from a professional musician with a household name. I listened to some vinyl LPs, and the sound was breathtaking.
My principal foray into the world of “hi-fi” I was in the mid-70s when I was a teenager. The be-all and end-all of that era was equipment with beguiling blue meters made by McIntosh of Binghamton, New York.
The system that I listened to had a 450-watt power Mcintosh amplifier of recent vintage, and speakers made by a German company called MBL, which currently sell new for about $70,000.
When I look at modern stereo equipment websites and magazines, it is clear to me that the hype of yesteryear has metastasized into something that is beyond ludicrous: tens of thousands of dollars for so-called “interconnects“? 5000-word Stereophile magazine reviews of $50,000 amplifiers that attest to the necessity of $10,000 interconnects versus $2000 interconnects?
So, I was pleased today to run across this website when I went down the rabbit hole of researching “no BS audiophile information”.
I know that somewhere between $1000 and $100,000 there lies “audiophile“ sound equipment that will provide good value for money and sound spectacular.
I realize this is a very wide open topic, and I hope that it is appropriate to post it on this website. But if anyone here wants to weigh in, this community appears to be one where I can get sound advice without a lot of marketing BS.
Ideally, I would like to be able to call out music to the Alexa system, and have it play through a very high-quality amplification system into excellent quality speakers.
Many thanks for any advice or input anyone here would care to contribute.