Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Digital amps like the C390Dd, the end of seperate amps and dacs?

2013-08-27 Thread foxx
Dura, you are expressing what I and many other would consider a sensible approach. What we are seeing in realiy is quite a different picture though. The market for separate DACs is unbroken. And so called 'audiophiles' are jumping on every donkey's back that comes along. It is a simple fact that

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Shilling for Dollars

2013-08-27 Thread SteveEast
It's strange. When I was young all I cared about was the music. Then as I got older, the equipment became more and more important and the music less so. Now I seem to have come full circle and it's the music that matters once again. And, let's face it, you can buy an awful lot more music when

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Shilling for Dollars

2013-08-27 Thread ralphpnj
SteveEast wrote: It's strange. When I was young all I cared about was the music. Then as I got older, the equipment became more and more important and the music less so. Now I seem to have come full circle and it's the music that matters once again. And, let's face it, you can buy an awful

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Shilling for Dollars

2013-08-27 Thread andy_c
ralphpnj wrote: Hopefully you came full circle and along the way picked up some nice sounding audio equipment. In addition I hope that people reading these anti-audiophile threads understand that no one here is against well made decent sounding reasonably priced equipment. What I and many