yes there's still a lot of audiophiles and even recording engineers that really love analog sound while probably the vast majority are into digital uh files and the pro side right digital is entrenched but analog somehow survives because it has in spite of it being real pain in the ass just something about analog sound that keeps us coming back for more and then there's the whole tube and solid-state divide right tubes are kind of like analog more of a pain in the ass but even after so many decades of solid-state dominance tubes survive and continue to well prosper right there's something about that sound that we love that keeps us coming back for more no consensus so where does this leave audiophiles in terms of what it is that they or more precisely you want and you the only way to know what you want is to experience as much of this as possible these different kinds of speakers these different you know tube solid state analog digital and with the music of your choice and figure it out on your own that's it that's it it's the journey to get there and the only way to get there is to listen listen a lot to as much variety of gear and types of recordings as possible that's it now my job here isn't to tell you what is the best my job is to describe the product and how it sounds what it feels like to use and what i think of it overall but in terms of a pecking order of this is better than that that is so subjective right you really get back to you have to have ears on uh experience with these things to know again what's the right one the best one so to speak for you i wish i could be more definitive as to what good sound is and just say you will love this everyone should rush out and buy it and be happy for the rest of your life i wish i could be that definitive but i can't but you know what i can be definitive about the audiophiliac viewer system of the day this one comes from arvid he's in the netherlands and he is NUMBER_TOKEN years old his speakers are martin logan NUMBER_TOKEN xtis and they are resting upon iso acoustics aperta NUMBER_TOKEN stands the cables speaker cables are dyruid flow i've never heard of that one but the interconnect cables are by audioquest they are mckenzie and they are xlr and rca cables the turntable is a project audio rpm carbon with an ortofon quintet blue moving coil cartridge and that is hooked up to an ordophon stNUMBER_TOKENc transformer the phono preamp itself is a project two box dsNUMBER_TOKEN and the power supply for that is called power box dsNUMBER_TOKEN then there's more project and that is a headphone amplifier the headbox dsNUMBER_TOKENb and headphones themselves are buyer dynamic amaron the streamer in this system is an nadNUMBER_TOKEN and the power ramp itself is an nadc NUMBER_TOKEN thanks arvid that is a killer picture we are back my name is steve guttenberg i continue to be the audiophiliac i want to thank you guys for watching if you like what i'm doing here on the channel please give me a like and please subscribe to the audiophiliac and after that well as i'd like to point out from
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