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Post by jin167 on Apr 11, 2018 11:36:05 GMT -6
www.stereophile.com/content/aurender-n10-music-server $10000 usb cable, $8000 optical cable, $5000 pedestal for an amplifier, and now we have this. They claim that they have built everything from scratch including the OS and it seems that they have put in a lot of effort in building this machine but I can't help myself thinking.. 'for what?' I've been trying to understand the mentality of the hi-fi crowd ever since the power cable debate but sometimes it gets just too.. much.
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Post by adamjbrass on Apr 11, 2018 11:41:34 GMT -6
Ahhh, the Audiophilia zone
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Post by ericn on Apr 11, 2018 15:31:52 GMT -6
Ahhh, the Audiophilia zone Man I’m trying to justify the existence of this thing in the Audiophile world, I mean I can justify some hand made stuff, and you wouldn’t believe how much time effort and money it takes to get the paint so you can match the speakers to somebody’s Ferrari! This though is just stupid, and I see the customer who wants this expecting Crestron or AMX I intergration and I can’t find any support for this! I have known audiophile who’s priced is based on the I need this many dollars to live the lifestyle I WANT TO, I can sell say 10 of these a year so I’m guessing this guy wants that Ferrari! |
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Post by adamjbrass on Apr 11, 2018 15:50:29 GMT -6
some of it is really cool. Most of it is absurd.
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Post by wiz on Apr 11, 2018 15:54:36 GMT -6
Ahhh, the Audiophilia zone Man I’m trying to justify the existence of this thing in the Audiophile world, I mean I can justify some hand made stuff, and you wouldn’t believe how much time effort and money it takes to get the paint so you can match the speakers to somebody’s Ferrari! This though is just stupid, and I see the customer who wants this expecting Crestron or AMX I intergration and I can’t find any support for this! I have known audiophile who’s priced is based on the I need this many dollars to live the lifestyle I WANT TO, I can sell say 10 of these a year so I’m guessing this guy wants that Ferrari! I used to program AMX, man blast from the past cheers Wiz |
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Post by Ward on Apr 11, 2018 16:36:33 GMT -6
Don't we need $250,000 microphones, $50,000 microphones cable etc etc in order to capture sound of a quality good enough for these audiophiles?
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Post by svart on Apr 12, 2018 16:52:03 GMT -6
Lol.
Trust me, nobody who's serious about jitter uses dpll designs inside fpgas for clocking.
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Post by ericn on Apr 12, 2018 17:43:28 GMT -6
Lol. Trust me, nobody who's serious about jitter uses dpll designs inside fpgas for clocking. I’ll trust you on that one Chris. |
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Post by kilroyrock on Apr 13, 2018 6:32:47 GMT -6
26 lbs.
What's funny is they release it with only an Apple I-App available (Android coming soon) - Apparently android users don't spend 8k on an audio server.
I did find the ad with headphones with wood-backing to be.. appropriate!
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Post by ericn on Apr 13, 2018 7:00:28 GMT -6
To bad he didn’t have it built in China, we could do the terrible thing of tracking down his OEM having them build it for us and undercut his price! Yeah it’s a terrible, terrible business model, but this is just asking for it!
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Post by ericn on Apr 13, 2018 7:02:52 GMT -6
Don't we need $250,000 microphones, $50,000 microphones cable etc etc in order to capture sound of a quality good enough for these audiophiles? I don’t know how much would a couple of nice remote sized cables of JW’s favorite Kimberly AG mic cables cost? I’ll admit every Kimber Kabyle I have used is worth every penny so they are on my if I had a billion dollars list! |
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Post by EmRR on Apr 13, 2018 8:42:20 GMT -6
Don't we need $250,000 microphones, $50,000 microphones cable etc etc in order to capture sound of a quality good enough for these audiophiles? Why, they assume that's what we use, and are outraged when they find we don't. |
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Post by kilroyrock on Apr 13, 2018 11:08:04 GMT -6
To bad he didn’t have it built in China, we could do the terrible thing of tracking down his OEM having them build it for us and undercut his price! Yeah it’s a terrible, terrible business model, but this is just asking for it! It's built in South Korea - you don't think they'd build it for you instead? I wouldn't be surprised if it's built in China, shipped to south korea and then to the U.S. JUST to say it's not made in China. |
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Post by ericn on Apr 13, 2018 11:25:32 GMT -6
To bad he didn’t have it built in China, we could do the terrible thing of tracking down his OEM having them build it for us and undercut his price! Yeah it’s a terrible, terrible business model, but this is just asking for it! It's built in South Korea - you don't think they'd build it for you instead? I wouldn't be surprised if it's built in China, shipped to south korea and then to the U.S. JUST to say it's not made in China. Nah South Korea respects intellectual property, at that price they can afford the up charge over China😁 |
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