Pat Farrell;264327 Wrote: > harmonic wrote: > > Pat Farrell;264306 Wrote: > >> IMHO, audiophile gear 'upgrades' are pure snake oil. > > > > To understand this right you say that the orginal 1973 sondek > > lp12 will sound exactly the same as the current full specs sondek > > lp12 Se ? > > No, I was not talking about turntables. I was talking about > electronics > > I would expect that a new, timewarp 1973 turntable would sound better > than a 1973 turntable in 2007, since mechanical things get worse over > time. > > Meridian sells upgrade modules to their controllers. > Its hard to tell how much the upgrade ability adds to the cost, even if > > you never use it. > > > > The klimax chasing is the only thing that will not change. > > Upgrades will be factory upgrades and will only acure when a > > significaly improvment have been made. > > The linn klimax solos amplifires are unchanged since 1999. > > The linn klimax twin was upgraded in 2005 with a new amplifire > designe > > the called chakra. > > We used to talk about upgrading cars that way. Some cars you could > improve easily. Others you needed to 'jack up the radiator cap' and > replace everything underneath. > > > If you took my 1999 vintage firewall and replaced the motherboard, CPU > > and disk drives, is that an upgrade? or just an expensive and labor > intensive way to get a new modern machine? > > > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
I dont understand your old computer metafor, your are completly overlooking the key contence of my posts. As stated many times by now , its ONLY the klimax chasing that will stay. Have long do you thing a solid aluminium chasing like the klimax ds will need before it deriates , 100.000.000 years ? -- harmonic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harmonic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6879 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38815 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
