Mid Fi vs Hi Fi - How can you tell?

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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,411
    edited August 2006
    excellent

    nuff said
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited August 2006
    hoosier21 wrote:
    excellent

    nuff said

    yep, I like bar raising.

    RT1
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2006
    I may need professional help soon - going to look at some Sonus Faber Grand Piano's - thought they might be a nice match.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited August 2006
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    I may need professional help soon - going to look at some Sonus Faber Grand Piano's - thought they might be a nice match.
    Bah.... go Cremonas or go home...

    JK.
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • wallstreet
    wallstreet Posts: 1,405
    edited August 2006
    Congrats on the purchase. How's it feel to own something that never needs upgrading?
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,724
    edited August 2006
    dorokusai wrote:
    He told me he was mating WITH them, not the other way around.

    I'd be happy with the runt of that litter.


    Wow ! :eek:
    Sal Palooza
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited August 2006
    Go Beemer or go home....that's where you are going to end up anyway.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • screename
    screename Posts: 321
    edited August 2006
    Here's a suggestion....
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited August 2006
    Would you take a kidney in trade?

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2006
    I saw that center channel in person yesterday, it makes the 802 look small - it's rediculous, it's sick. It's audio insanity of the highest order.

    Yeah, I'll end up at B&W - but that itch will run me 10 grand at the end of the day, right now I've got a $3000 itch to scratch.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited August 2006
    803's / 804's

    I'm thinking the 804's would load up pretty well in your cave.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2006
    I talked to Vu yesterday, look for an 804 diamond coming out REAL soon, and priced under the 803S - probably around 5 grand.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited August 2006
    804D?

    Niiice.... finally a speaker for the masses.
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • Roy Munson
    Roy Munson Posts: 886
    edited August 2006
    Nice amps Russ!!
    2 Channel:
    Amp/Parasound Halo A23
    Pre/Carver C-1
    Tuner/Carver TX-11a
    CDP/Jolida JD 100A
    Turntable/AR XB-Shure V15 III
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited August 2006
    Go ahead Russ, take your pick... I'd love to have any of these.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited August 2006
    Very nice Russ. Almost all my gear now has come in a crate:D . So what's next for the speakers?
    Sharp Elite 70
    Anthem D2V 3D
    Parasound 5250
    Parasound HCA 1000 A
    Parasound HCA 1000
    Oppo BDP 95
    Von Schweikert VR4 Jr R/L Fronts
    Von Schweikert LCR 4 Center
    Totem Mask Surrounds X4
    Hsu ULS-15 Quad Drive Subwoofers
    Sony PS3
    Squeezebox Touch

    Polk Atrium 7s on the patio just to keep my foot in the door.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2006
    Sonus Faber Grand Piano's for now in the cave, I'm going to keep rocking the Line Arrays in the 'big' room.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited August 2006
    I love the Sonus Fabers ..I was really considering those before I got the Von Schweikerts. Enjoy!
    Sharp Elite 70
    Anthem D2V 3D
    Parasound 5250
    Parasound HCA 1000 A
    Parasound HCA 1000
    Oppo BDP 95
    Von Schweikert VR4 Jr R/L Fronts
    Von Schweikert LCR 4 Center
    Totem Mask Surrounds X4
    Hsu ULS-15 Quad Drive Subwoofers
    Sony PS3
    Squeezebox Touch

    Polk Atrium 7s on the patio just to keep my foot in the door.
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited August 2006
    wingnut4772 wrote:
    Almost all my gear now has come in a crate:D .
    Damn! Guess I'm still suck in the ranks of mid-fi. Everything I have came in cardboard boxes :(
    Audio: Polk S15 * Polk S35 * Polk S10 * SVS SB-1000 Pro
    HT: Samsung QN90B * Marantz NR1510 * Panasonic DMP-BDT220 * Roku Ultra LT * APC H10
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited August 2006
    Halo wrote:
    Damn! Guess I'm still suck in the ranks of mid-fi. Everything I have came in cardboard boxes :(


    Well the most expensive piece of gear came in a cardboard box so go figure.:p
    Sharp Elite 70
    Anthem D2V 3D
    Parasound 5250
    Parasound HCA 1000 A
    Parasound HCA 1000
    Oppo BDP 95
    Von Schweikert VR4 Jr R/L Fronts
    Von Schweikert LCR 4 Center
    Totem Mask Surrounds X4
    Hsu ULS-15 Quad Drive Subwoofers
    Sony PS3
    Squeezebox Touch

    Polk Atrium 7s on the patio just to keep my foot in the door.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,552
    edited August 2006
    jdhdiggs wrote:
    Go ahead Russ, take your pick... I'd love to have any of these.

    Geeez... those are niiiice... Wilsons...
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • halo
    halo Posts: 5,616
    edited August 2006
    Joey_V wrote:
    Geeez... those are niiiice... Wilsons...
    What's wrong with the Magpies Joey?
    Audio: Polk S15 * Polk S35 * Polk S10 * SVS SB-1000 Pro
    HT: Samsung QN90B * Marantz NR1510 * Panasonic DMP-BDT220 * Roku Ultra LT * APC H10
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited August 2006
    Joey_V wrote:
    Geeez... those are niiiice... Wilsons...

    Those little Wilsons are quite nice. I haven't heard the big mofos. And yes, I believe they both come in crates. Is it another level of -fi if the gear both comes in crates, and comes with in home installation and calibration?
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited August 2006
    Shelby,

    I believe you are referring to $$$$$-fi gear.
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited August 2006
    REAL Hifi is when Dan (in full on HK Fooey garb) and liv4fam show up to open the boxes for you. :D

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited August 2006
    OMG Russ!!! Congrats man. That's some crazy looking mono's. I can only imagine how they sound. Show us a pic when you've got the system set up. Are you using the Melos as pre?
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited August 2006
    Hey Russ. You favorite audio shop has a set of demo PrAc D25's in mahogany, and a used set of ProAc Future 1's. That might save you some cash.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Andrew2112
    Andrew2112 Posts: 59
    edited August 2006
    Outstanding, congrats Russ.
    Equipment like this separates the men from the boys!!!
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  • screename
    screename Posts: 321
    edited August 2006
    I would have a hard time choosing between the 803D and N802's if I were in the 4.5-6K range. Both are very good speakers in there own right.
    I might be going to an all Diamond setup so I could be moving my cherry N802's. Let me know if you have any interest Russ.
    Brad

    Potential Sale item:
    N802 pair Cherry 8.5/10
    N804 pair Cherry 7.5/10
    N805 pair Cherry with black stands 8/10
    NHTM1 Cherry on black stands (2 of these) 8.5/10
    HTM2D in Rosenut 8/10
    SCMS's in Rosenut with wall mounts (Clean) 8.5/10
    DS8S's in Rosenut (wallmount Monopole/Dipole) 6/10

    Ahhh yes it's a sickness, gathering speakers....lol
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  • Mazeroth
    Mazeroth Posts: 1,585
    edited August 2006
    I will drop 10 shots of Maker's Mark in celebration of this purchase.

    Holy...****.
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