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 It also sounds fantastic despite being nearly 50 years old. Maybe every 20 years or so it needs a bit of TLC and maybe replacing some capacitors, and then itās as good as new. I doubt that your iPhone and your Sonos speaker will even work 10 years from now. 14 comments
@thomasfuchs this is kinda why I dislike the tech industry trying to barge into the audio industry and dictate their own terms. Felt like when the 3.5mm jack was removed it was them saying itās outdated and we all just need to move on to BT. Guess what still works after 15 years? My AKG headphones. Guess what doesnāt work? The BT connection between my iPod nano and my AirPods, despite them being only 5 years apart. Audio should be timeless. But thatās not ācoolā, I guess.  @xodium @thomasfuchs My quarter-inch stereo Koss can headphones from the 70s work like the day they were made. Any new headphone is lucky to last a year. @farseen yeah thatās one of the hilarious bits to me. The pro-BT crowd said that hey, things will get better because Appleās forcing it along! Guys, Bluetooth has sucked, continues to suck, and likely will always suck at this rate. That we still have to suffer with a protocol that canāt walk and chew gum at the same time when 2024 is on our doorstep just feelsā¦nuts to me.  @jonhendry @thomasfuchs indeed. We used to have the choice! And then companies began charging us extra for shoddy dongles but the real motivator was so they could force you into buying their headphones. Because every. Single. OEM. Who removed the jack just so conveniently had a set of BT headphones to sell you. Sly jerks. @thomasfuchs my dad had a problem a few years ago with a tube he couldnāt find a replacement for. I donāt know where he looked, but I would not have given up so easily.  @thomasfuchs I have an 80s throwback (that I bought new in the mid-80s in college) that I need to re-cap. Hafler DH-500. But I have no idea where Iād use it at this point. Maybe I should just build a big subwoofer around it. And probably it will turn on immediately after being connected to power. No need to wait for it to boot up. @thomasfuchs personally I think the late 90s / early 2000s were peak home HiFi time. The integrated class AB amplifier ICs were pretty good, there was minimal DSP manipulation going on and affordable speakers sounded OK. It's gone downhill since as class D has become the norm and penny pinching has become extreme. |
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@thomasfuchs I have a Bryston prepro paired with a Linn amp. It must be pushing 20 years old now. It sounds phenomenal. My GF wants to replace it for something that is āeasier.ā She has no idea. lol.