Yes, After all these years of chasing a nice natural sound I've achieved it and can listen for hours. But that doesnt mean it cant bet better. Heh. @@danab7472
I was amazed at how many of these people are into vinyl. I had to wonder how many of them have been long term vinyl fans (like myself) buying vinyl because that's all there was, and how many have recently gotten into the vinyl hobby due to it's growing popularity. The truth is that I don't spend much time breaking out my vinyl anymore and use my streamer / DAC 95% of the time.
Thanks Steve for showcasing my system, it was great to see it in there amongst all the other superb systems. It always amazes me to see how diverse peoples choices to hi-fi are, but when it all comes down to it the reason we all have them is to enjoy the music, and long may that continue. Cheers Dean
Quite simply I love these viewers systems videos. Fascinating. Great work as always, thanks Steve and thank you to your community for sharing their love of audio, in all it’s guises!
Totally off topic, but....Steve please bring back your podcast!!! I only discovered it recently and they are great. I have listened to them all now, many more than once. We need new episodes. One of my favorite was not even about gear, it was about your experiences in NYC as a projectionist. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the podcasts you do have posted and I hope someday you can get back to posting new ones.
I've just sent in some photos of my diy speakers, diy turntable and modded kit. I hope they get an Audiophiliac showcase. My photography skills aren't very good so I doubt it. As a fellow diyer I hope your speakers get into one of these videos. It the DIY stuff that really shows the passion of the system builder and grabs my attention.
@@nathanevans6277 thanks I appreciate it! I never got a chance to send any photos in. I wasn't sure if the website. I have a few pairs I built last year and I'm working on a couple other projects. I would love to keep building them. I have so many ideas, I just have no place to store them all . Btw I was looking for a diy turntable, what did you build? Thanks again I appreciate you reaching out and I would love to see your projects!
@@BostonMike68I post on diyaudio under the user name Niffy. My turntable is shown in the thread "diy linear tonearm". It is a very long thread so finding posts can be laborious. I found a couple of photos near the bottom of page 100. My speakers are also on diyaudio in the thread "Eikona Ellipsoids"
Fantastic stuff! Thanks Steve and thanks to all of you audiophiles with the great systems. I really need to step up my game! Not so much in the gear because I think my system sounds pretty darn good for the money, but more in my room and presentation. Been in the process of fixing up my basement for the past 20 years. LOL!
The viewer system episodes is something i really look forward to. Would love some viewer system interviews in the future. Btw, did anyone else catch the Amityville (movie) vibe in Bills listening room? I would love to see that house form the outside :)
Love seeing just how much this thing we love is FAR from dead. Folks of all walks and budgets piecing together the best possible rig they can, some better than others, yet all blow the doors off the BS lifestyle gear the mainstream shovels out.
Like that rig at the end with I think Altec 511's, prob an EV horn on top and some sort of front loaded Altec 825/828 type bass. Would like to know more about that. Great looking cab, kind of a Shindo look.
Thanks for showing off my big Tannoys. Most of my componentsl boughtnew so it'staken a longtimetogettothis point. My oldest component is a 25 year old dCS Verdi transport and my latest purchase was their Bartok dac, not Apex. Speakers are around 15 years old and they do need the matching super tweeters as the main 2" tweeters seriously start to roll off after 15k. The amp is a little special as its the opposite to most tube integrated amps. It uses a solid state pre section so no small tubes only 4x KT 88 tubes for the power. The room is square so its a nightmare for standing waves. Point source speakers help and there's lots of bass treatments behind those thin curtains. The sub only plays between 45-55 just to fill in the hole around 50 caused by the room.
It's always a pleasure viewing other peoples' stereo gear, old and new. This really is a community of music lovers that I wish I had more personal relationships with. Very few people in my sphere spend much money or time listening to music like I do. One day I hope to have my system grace one of these episodes.
that dual turntable is very good, i don´t remenber the last time i heard it on a friends house but i was admired by it´s quality, i think the cartridge they were instaling at the time on their turntables was really good
Nice to see my friend's Pete system! We have known each other for 40 years & I have learned so much about HiFi from him in assembling my system & of course you as well!
I can’t believe how many people push their speaker right up against the wall. Or have glass right behind the speaker and no room treatments. Yet are concerned about a cable hitting the ground 😂😂😂
You do think it's a statement to have the speakers far from the wall behind them way out into the room, but it's not true for every loudspeakers. Many (not only) vintage ones were designed to be close to the wall (or even in the corner)!
Those Cornscalas in Pete's very vintage system are the bomb. They are supposed to have the punch of the cornwalls , the tightness of the Heresy's and the lush high end of the La Scalas. Would love to have you demo a set sometime!!!!
Always interesting to see viewers systems, I couldn’t send in a photo of mine because it doesn’t occupy the same space. Speakers are on the opposite side of the room!
I love you Steve but please narrate all the systems! I am dying to know what the double turntable setup at 16:14 is. I'm pretty sure the one on the right is a non-vacuum Sota Sapphire but don't recognize the one on the left. (I have FOUR Sotas myself!)
Audio companies and their Alphabet Soup - with Numbers! naming conventions... I feel bad for Steve when he has to read all that mumbo jumbo. : ) gorgeous systems though (and rooms / houses) !!!
This is so amazing to watch Steve, could you Name me the Set Up that was shown in the very last picture that you didn't comment on ? It looks like my dream SetUp because im currently really into horns. :) Thank u for the video, Im looking forward to send u some pictures
I ❤the way so many people have their turntables so close to their speakers.. it's a nice way to get the vinyl to sound "warmer" than CD at moderate volume..😉
I live in a small apartment with strict noise rules. Been using a Onkyo TX-8511 2 channel receiver with 100 WPC. I also have a Harman Kardon 550 Vsi receiver with 45 WPC. To get as much music with low volume I am running a set of Polk R15 on A and Polk t 15 speakers on B. I have some Polk XT 15 speakers on the way. Baring in mind I cannot listen to music loud. I usually run A and B sets at same time. I will be replacing the T 15 speakers with the new XT 15s. Nothing is high end. But do you think the HK receiver would sound better then the Onkyo.
Always love the viewer systems videos. Thanks Steve! At about 11:30 in, it's the system with white Kefs with atmos modules, someone has a serious laserdisc player from pioneer. Do you know the model number?
Glad you like the Kefs, that's my system. The laserdisc is a Pioneer HLD-X9, i have a few laserdiscs, mainly kept hold of the ones where there are no DVD/BluRay/4K releases, or just editions I really like, both for films and music titles. The audio on those things sound imense too 🙂
Great channel Steve. You do many videos suggesting great equipment, but I was wondering if there was any great combos of equipment that come to mind for you? Speaker and amp combos that work well together, or any other combinations of equipment that come to mind? Thanks 👍
That early 70's Bang and Olufsen turntable has got to be the the noisiest turntable I have ever come across, when you put the arm down on the vinyl it sounds like someone walking across the ceiling. Also do not dance anywhere near it and I know because my farther bought one when it came out. The rest of the system was Bang and Olufsen and it was also really bad. The habitat of hifi...
I'm not really interested in yucking someone else's yum but i have to agree. I was given a Beogram turntable and it is the mushiest, vague sounding thing I've ever heard. All show and no go.
Steve, for the systems at the end, you may want to place in the corner of the frame the names of the owners of those systems and where they are from--just to give some context. Make no sense to show those systems at the end if youre not going to attach them to one of your viewers
When someone says pull your speaker or suggests like 16" off a boundary wall do they mean measuring from the rear (where my port is) or the mid or front of the speaker? My speaker is 10" deep so just kind of testing and hopeful you could share your experience on that.
Is an all dynaco system considered audiophile? Or hobbyist.. ST-70 with PAS preamp, ELAC unify speakers on vintage JVC turntable with shure M91-ED cart. I'm just wondering is that hi-fi hobbyist or considered audiophile? I'm not interested in buying $20k of gear
Thanks Steve, I value your opinion. I just have trouble with the idea that to be an audiophile is to buy extremely expensive gear, where I'm more interested in classic tube amplifier circuits and design.@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac
Ok I am not an Audiophile (now a recovering Audiophile) Though I have a lovely Perraux PMF 1155 power-amp and a Perraux SA1 pre-amp with some Lambert speakers and some original Monster cable. Yea I'm 54! I have a range of DAC's (collected some great some naff) various turntables like my THROENS modded with an RB300 and other Japanese stuff. Then there is my studio gear, the only valve/tube gear is some of my guitar amps, It is all devoted to making music! The biggest thing is Sound treatment of the rooms! No there wont be photos! Often Vintage gear needs servicing like capacitors and stuff that burns out over time and become out of spec...
Well, the good news is you're not an audiophile! That's odd, because all the stuff you have marks you as one. That's like saying I have three Leica cameras, two Nikons, and three Canons, But I'm not into photography. OK!
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Though I do care about the sound of the stuff I record, and I love matching guitar tones of rock and pop music. The gear was left over from my Audiophile days, it meets my needs for enjoyment. These days it is all about the source and the final transducer speakers or headphone most of the stuff in the middle its diminishing returns for the dollers spent, same in the Music Performance world. In the Music Gear snobs world My Audiophile gear is Vintage for Vintage tone :)
My Tannoy system that Steve shows is expensive but it took 35 years to get there. Its a hobby and often the journey is the whole point. Every few years replace one item for a little bit better one "investing " in the system. If you buy quality used items then often you can sell them on for the price you paid, sometimes more.
the elephant is still in almost all of these rooms - the lack of modern room treatments using up to date scientific data. The owners of these systems are not getting a decent return on the money spent on them. Like buying a Porsche and then mounting cheap tires on steel wheels...
Well, show us how it's done! Send pictures, we all want to see what you're up to. Send to Audiophiliac@mail.com please put Room treatment in the subject line
Sorry, but the Audiophiliac System of the day is most boring part of the "show", I always skip it. Maybe because I have a crappy system, and I'm đelus:)
