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clubhouse wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 10:16 pm So beyond a vague price-point the whole exercise dissolves into a pissing contest on who’s spent the most money on the biggest/most miniaturised, most technologically advanced/esoterically contrived audio microscope…with, I suspect, few instances of the assemblage being used in appropriate ‘clean room’ conditions. Again, if you’re wealthy enough to pursue particle physics in the realms of diminishing returns…have at it, I say…just, please do it properly, is all I’d whinge about…like the cats with the LHC/CERN and get the environment right.

None of them talks about the concrete mass they sunk into the foundations to absorb ground waves or the base isolation and diffusion materials used to tame a feral 200Hz frequency build up in the back corner of the room. It’s not as sexy as dropping a casual $7K on a hand carved, 24C gold wired, jewel-ruby stylused, lignum vitae turntable cart…

Eliminating all the peripheral crap between the media and the listener, in the way headphones eliminate most of the environment (except for the psycho-acoustic metaphysical environmental influence otherwise eliminated by VR sets or listening with your eyes closed in a sensory deprivation tank?), the next “format shift” could be the development of DNCs (digital neural convertors) where the listener plugs a wireless node into a connection in the brain stem to stream audio/visual data direct :lolno: …sell your shares in JBL, B+W, Genelec, Adam, etc now…you read it here first :roll:

Hell, maybe spend a few thou each year hosting some live performances at the pad instead of amassing a mess of blinking boxes and cables and share the experience of real music, untainted and uncoloured by the recording media complex, loud and direct…but they probably do that as well (let’s hope) anyway :mrgreen: …I suspect though, that it’s more about the quantifiable ($) measure of competitive perversion…right on.
Right on, though I can’t read this post without substituting in phrases like Brazilian Rosewood, Old Growth Mahogany, PAFs and Nitro. We are all chasing rainbows I think:-)

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I have a 1980s Tokai Goldstar sound coming this week. I've been looking for a lefty white/rosewood strat for ages but Fender now only make that config in the American Pro series, or some older MIMs but I've never seen one in NZ for sale.

Plus I have a thing for MIJ guitars and would like a strat for demos etc. The Goldstar stuff has a great reputation so let's see what shows up.

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After selling my EHX Deluxe Memory Man and Wampler reverb I have one of these on the way
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Meris Polymoon from StratMatt. I have never been more afraid of a pedal. :crazy:

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Yum!
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Replacement cables for some of my IEMs are apparently in the mail. Not moving fast, though.
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IMOCD wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:11 pm Meris Polymoon from StratMatt. I have never been more afraid of a pedal. :crazy:
As it turns out, fairly straight forward to get the hang of. Some bloody awesome sounds in this thing to boot. Riding on this wave of confidence, I have gone and bought an Empress Zoia. Zero experience with modular synths, but what the hell, looks like a lot of fun.

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H671 wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:58 am Yum!

Dude! I like that a lot. 105th anniversary?

Harleys here command a serious premium. I'd love another big block but some examples are almost double what I'd expect to pay in NZ. I'm chasing a 70s Shovel at the moment. Their prices seem more in keeping with what I'm used to.

Congrats on the new bike.

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Molly wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 7:38 pm
H671 wrote: Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:58 am Yum!

Dude! I like that a lot. 105th anniversary?

Harleys here command a serious premium. I'd love another big block but some examples are almost double what I'd expect to pay in NZ. I'm chasing a 70s Shovel at the moment. Their prices seem more in keeping with what I'm used to.

Congrats on the new bike.
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