Audio Bliss...

[aerius]

For the last 3 weeks I've been staying up 'till about 2am every night just listening to music. I've found audio bliss...I have a Naim CD5 CD player (on loan from a co-worker) hooked up to my Gilmore Amp to power my Senn 580 headphones. That's about $3000 worth of audio equipment, it makes me happy. Super precise, amazingly musical, it sounds better than anything I've heard in a long while, with the exception of a $6000 Grado RS-1 setup. This thing is evil, it's making me lose sleep cause I can't stop listening to it. And for sexy female vocals I break out my tube amp...

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

For the last 3 weeks I've been staying up 'till about 2am every night just listening to music. I've found audio bliss...I have a Naim CD5 CD player (on loan from a co-worker) hooked up to my Gilmore Amp to power my Senn 580 headphones. That's about $3000 worth of audio equipment, it makes me happy. Super precise, amazingly musical, it sounds better than anything I've heard in a long while, with the exception of a $6000 Grado RS-1 setup. This thing is evil, it's making me lose sleep cause I can't stop listening to it. And for sexy female vocals I break out my tube amp...

For sexy female anything you break out your tube...

[YT300000]

For the last 3 weeks I've been staying up 'till about 2am every night just listening to music. I've found audio bliss...I have a Naim CD5 CD player (on loan from a co-worker) hooked up to my Gilmore Amp to power my Senn 580 headphones. That's about $3000 worth of audio equipment, it makes me happy. Super precise, amazingly musical, it sounds better than anything I've heard in a long while, with the exception of a $6000 Grado RS-1 setup. This thing is evil, it's making me lose sleep cause I can't stop listening to it. And for sexy female vocals I break out my tube amp...

For sexy female anything you break out your tube...

[aerius]

No not that tube, vacuum tube amp, like the one pictured below. It glows in the dark, keeps the room warm and makes sweet music. Mine's a homemade one and not nearly as nice, but it still sounds damn good.

[phongn]

I hate you.

[Vertigo1]

Damn....and I only have a stereo with 4 200W speakers.... In other words, its a poor man's surround sound system.

[phongn]

That CD player is probably the vast majority of the cost. IIRC, Aerius built his Gilmore, and the HD580s aren't hideously expensive.

[aerius]

That CD player is probably the vast majority of the cost. IIRC, Aerius built his Gilmore, and the HD580s aren't hideously expensive.

The Naim CD5 is about $2500 or so, the Gilmore in kit form is about $300, and the headphones can be had for $200 or less. Going from my $50 pawnshop special Panasonic CD/DVD player to one that's worth 50 times as much is pretty amazing. I think there's still lots of room for improvement in the system, a better CD player like a Wadia and a better amp to take advantage of it. Kevin Gilmore has recently designed a new version of his amp to power high impedance headphones like my Senn 580s, I might end up building it if I can get a power supply for the thing.

[Montcalm]

No not that tube, vacuum tube amp, like the one pictured below. It glows in the dark, keeps the room warm and makes sweet music. Mine's a homemade one and not nearly as nice, but it still sounds damn good.

http://www.divertech.com/images/orchid.jpg

Retro technology is cool [size=0]and fucking expansive at the same time[/size]