This guy is the best of the best. As far as I know he's been banned from every major audiophile messageboard and I'm pretty sure the change from 82 to 821 was banning related, too.

I miss all the old videos he deleted where he would just kind of wriggle around with "$1,000,000" speaker cables in front of ridiculous greescreen backgrounds, and post long videos of himself eating oatmeal.

His video about how he unplugged his refrigerator to make his sound system better an could no longer eat refrigerated food was a masterpiece.


The thing about audiophiles is i you dig through all the snake oil there's some really good information about DIY in some of their message boards. But there is so much bullshit to dig through before you find, say, a thread about building a highend turntable fro scratch with old floppy drives, motorcycle bearings and salvaged synthetic countertop material.

>>His video about how he unplugged his refrigerator to make his sound system better an could no longer eat refrigerated food was a masterpiece.

Duuuude, that's so beautiful.

Even videos of 'sane' people who buy manufactured stuff, all have dead eyes once they break the 4 figure threshold for cabling. I think hi fi stuff is really neat, but I'm pretty certain I could piece together an AMAZING 2 channel setup for less than these weirdos spend on cables and cork. It's like the quintessential hobby of diminishing returns.

Yeah, I had a pretty solid tube stereo system going for about $90 ($80 for a really good mid 70s turntable that goes for $2500+ on eBay right now, $10 for some nice late 60s AR speakers, and nothing for a Scott 299c tube amp because I paid $100 to get it with the matching tuner and it took less than 40 minutes to make that back selling the tuner on Craigslist) but I need to get my amp serviced.

Oh and add another $7 for a well maintained first generation Playstation 1 with the RCA outputs for playing CDs. Sounds great.

Granted, at the time my life was pretty much structured around access to free/cheap audio equipment and most people couldn't pull that off, but even after that I've done pretty well. When the speakers ended up dying I got another pair (same series but the next revison with improved midrange drivers) free from a neighbor and only had to put in $20 and some fiddly manual labor to replace the woofer surrounds, and when the Scott started acting up I already had an early 80s NAD pulled out of the trash to replace it until I can afford to have it looked at, and that was all many years after I stopped having inside connections to the professional trashpicking circuit up in Boston.

And with a little practice, anybody could build a really nice chip amp from a kit for about $75 plus the cost of a soldering iron. They're very easy.

I've got an old Yamaha 2 channel receiver and a pair of used Paradigm bookshelf speakers I think I payed $100 for shipped. Run all the audio through a recording interface to bypass shit soundcard. It sounds great, especially since I burned my bed - the tar dampened the room and rolled off a lot of the harsh highs.