hifi

daily hi-fi 009

Yamaha C5000 preamplifier and M5000 power amplifier

𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭 Engineer at C̶o̶i̶n̶b̶a̶s̶e̶ Yahoo. Yes

Building Design Systems and frontend tools at your favorite internet company like it’s 1999.

I wish the M5000/C5000 had good synergy with my system but alas they do not, they are so beautiful though.

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Music

by popular request (okay just @ted and @nicholas) here is an overview of our hi-fi setup:

* but first, why?
listening to music can be either a passive activity, like background music while cooking or commuting, or an activity that demands your full attention. if the latter, then the quality of your experience is shaped by the ability of your system to reproduce music. this means everything from source (streaming, CD, vinyl, reel-to-reel tape) → amplification → volume control (preamp) → speakers and all of the cables in between.

maybe this all sounds dumb (who cares about cables???) but until you have a once-in-a-lifetime experience listening to a really great system, you won't know what you're missing from your favourite music. not just technical qualities like detail or extension, but emotion, texture, and meaning. hi-fi is a great real-world example of plato's cave, because once you've heard what you're missing... you can't unhear it.

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details about my current system are in this thread: https://farcaster.xyz/matthewb/0x1407eba1

but I am building a much more ambitious system with Wilson loudspeakers and Spectral electronics, just waiting for the Canada/US tariffs to be resolved to ship a few things.