07-20-2009, 05:38 AM
Rich
I don't think that collecting and playing around with old high fidelity amplifiers classifies someone as an audiophool (A term who's use I was censored for on the other for by the way). An audiophool, to my way of thinking, is someone who buys into crackpot theories that have no basis in fact and believes that paying exorbitant amounts for snake oil type devices will genuinely lead to perfect sound A typical audiophool would be seeking to build an amplifier employing $50 paper condensers, $1000 power cables, $40 gold plated fuses, leaky black beauty condensers from old TV sets, rare and expensive triode tubes that were obsolete in 1933, etc.
Best Regards
I don't think that collecting and playing around with old high fidelity amplifiers classifies someone as an audiophool (A term who's use I was censored for on the other for by the way). An audiophool, to my way of thinking, is someone who buys into crackpot theories that have no basis in fact and believes that paying exorbitant amounts for snake oil type devices will genuinely lead to perfect sound A typical audiophool would be seeking to build an amplifier employing $50 paper condensers, $1000 power cables, $40 gold plated fuses, leaky black beauty condensers from old TV sets, rare and expensive triode tubes that were obsolete in 1933, etc.
Best Regards
