Any audiophile CD/Album collectors here?

i once decorated a house and the chap who owned it was having a fantastic sytem put in , all the cables were plastered into the walls and had sockets in the wall to plug the speakers into. he had about 6 pre amps and the system unit that housed the equipment even had a fridge. the unit cost around £17.000
this was in the 1980's
the expert who installed the system gave me the remainder of one of the speaker cable reels as he knew i was astonished at the chaps system and even as a young lad i was into my sounds.
never forgot that music room..
was the most expensive house i had worked in.

Killer I'm sure boohbah! I once had the pleasure to visit Arnie Nudells custom built room for his new signiture speakers the IRS's.

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To say that they sounded good was such an understatement of musical power with such ease, just a joy to be in the room with and it almost didn't matter what was being played....if it was recorded well then you got transported into the music !

I am an audiophile. I have a pair of B&W DM6 (pregnant penguins) loudspeakers that I bought in 1980 and a nice Yamaha RXV-2090 reciever to listen to music. I rip my CD's to FLAC and use Winamp to play them on the PC with an Audigity 2 ZS sound card. I left my Thorens TD160BC SME Series II arm and Ortophon M20FLSuper in England in my Mums loft 14 years ago. In 1998 I lost about 100 CD's due to a divorce and have bought most of them again. My LP's are at my Mums house and I have no idea how many there are now as I got a lot of the stuff on CD. One thing that bugs me no end is new CD's are recorder with no dynamic range, everything is a s loud and compressed as possible.

linnemeyerhere said:

Yep I'm a huge analog lover but primarily music lover....as I'm watching part 6 of Ken Burns excellent history of Jazz as I type this. My collection of well over 5,000 lp's is a blend of my personal collection and three friends collections which I've yet to integrate into mine as they'll all get cleaned via my Nitty Gritty machine and stuffed into a new sleeve once played and pronounce worthy.
I have three audiophile tables and still own my prized Techinics RS1500 US 10" open real as well as my Nakamichi RX505 cassette machine. Both are flat out amazing recording and playback devices that stand up to almost any CD player available without getting into the stratosphere. Then there is my digital collection of over 2000 cd's and my laserdisc (450+), DVD (900+) and Blu Ray (40+) collection of movies and music.
I'm currently building my own Audiophile interconnects from pure oxygen free copper with pure silver coated wire with pure silver solder and custom locking connectors with shrink wrapped sleeving. These are meant to rival Kimber Kable and the like at a much lower but still expensive price point.
To sum it up.............I'm a total music and audio loon, it's scary but it's me !

Allan ,I didn't know you were a Jazz fan I have recently been getting into Jazz Fushion Acid Jazz and funk have to say it is good Listening Brother

My first concert was John Mclaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra opening for ELP. But it was John and Billy Cobham during the Birds of Fire tour that was so impressive. At age 13 I was into Chick Corea, Jazz Crusaders and many more Jazz and Progressive Jazz bands. There are many must haves but this is one of mine!

I can listen to stuff like this for hours


The same name but different songs this is from the Game La Noire but is a actual song called Rainy Mood

Any Bela Fleck cd !