Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me, parallels between audio and Leicas don't quite work! I used to buy lots of used vinyl for maybe $1-3/ea and I'd have come home with a stack of things I had never heard of before or which just plain seemed unlikely, like a '50s Ethel Merman pressing. Lots of fun--run them all through the Nitty Gritty machine and take a listen. Lots of dogs in the stack, but here and there, a gem. In this context, having an expensive stereo didn't seem too nutty. Today, used CDs cost around $9 and I don't experiment much, and I spend just a fraction of the time listening. Then, I typically had Mark Levinson, Audio Research or c-j equipment; today, I've got a Dyna tube amp that cost me less than $80; it's an integrated unit and has essentially no cables between pre and power amplifier sections which ought to be better than any $900 interconnect out there. The Leica doesn't really put a crimp on my experimenting; actually, the opposite may be true because it's so portable and unthreatening. - -- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado