been here since early 2006. i am an electrical engineer that works on "technology strategy" these days, so the hands on stuff, other than occasional programming, is long gone, and i could design a circuit if my life depended on it. ;-) i live in the bay area in california, just 20 minutes away from Slim Devices HQ (California traffic permitting).
back in 2006, i added the SB3 to this Accuphase system... http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=922&stc=1&d=1140415261 and then began the arduous task of ripping CDs once after the other. i started off doing it as 256k MP3s, convinced i was just doing it for convenience and that the subtle (but clearly detectable) differences in sound between 256k MP3 and FLAC were just important if i truly wanted to never listen to CDs again. of course, after you discover the utter and total convenience and power of the method, you need to reconsider. it took me a year to rip all my favorite jazz and classical CDs to FLACs, and everything r&b, pop or latin goes into a 320k MP3, which is more than most recordings deserve, imho. recently, i had to leave my home system behind and go somewhere lightweight, you can see the little system here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817&page=68 and now i have added another SB3 and a acoustic energy aego m system in the bedroom that provides listening pleasure and also acts as a fantastic wakeup alarm system. you have to enjoy -unless you are a snob- how all these things are truly bringing down the pricepoint at which it is thoroughly enjoyable to listen to music. i have been a music fanatic for many years - started collecting classical and soft jazz and r&b and salsa as a teen, taking painstaking care of my LPs even then (i still have them). as a teenager i got a little Technics system with small bookshelf speakers when everybody else was looking for the most power for the least money. as a student eventually i had Denon stuff around, and got my first good CD player (a marked down Denon 1290 (seem to remember) eventually, eventually linked to a Luxman amplifier (relatively entry level). finally i got the accuphaxse setup pictured above, my "dream system", with specially tuned speakers by a university psychacoustic department. it sounds great to me, even though it's nowhere near as esoteric as many systems one sees around here. at the end of the day, as a passionate (yet relatively mediocre) percussion and flute player, to me it's about the music, and i will be very critical when it comes to the sound of percussion instruments. i own over 2,000 CDs and a couple of hundred LPs, and entered the downloadable music era a few years ago - but still buymy favorites as CDs. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
