sorry that's pretty douchy sounding in hindsight
the point is i'm an audiophile geek that is willing to blow money on stereos/speakers over the years. I started accumulating these components in the 90's. I'm such a geek about it that when i started digitizing and taking recordings from analog to digital i converted everything to WAV files for zero compression (lossless) audio files. While its true you retain the original sound quality/depth by doing that, a 6 minute song is like 20-40MB. Not the ideal way to store large amounts of music. My phone has 18gb of music files on it jsut from stuff i transferred from my computer to the phone. If i had more money i'd blow $50,000 on better speakers, bigger amps and better recordings. I love stereo stuff. Just can't afford to really love it
One of the coolest stereo geek things i ever went through was my dads old Marantz tube amp. It was in his garage collecting dust, i said "Dad, why don't use use this?" He says it doesn't work anymore. Dad, can i have it? I'll fix it.
"Sure kid. "
I took that to my stereo store and they fixed it as new for $200. In todays world that deck is probably worth $800-1000 for nostalgia reasons, but I didn't care about that. I cared about having this really #######g loud deck hooked up to my modern hi end speakers. I wanted to see the difference between old school analog/raw power vs modern digital/smoothed amps.
Immediate difference, old amp almost blew my woofers. There's no cutoff and the base is more midrange centered and wants to "pop" your woofers. Along those lines an 80 Watt tube amp was much louder than a 200 Watt Denon digital processor amp. All i can say is it seemed like riding a wild stallion vs a tame pony. I can see why people blew their speakers alot in the 70's and 80's.
A few months go by and my stoner brother comes over to visit and asks if i'll loan him the Marantz for a little while as he moved into a new apartment and had no stereo. I said sure. Big mistake. He sold it and bought drugs. Oh well.
