Ultimist update

The latest Ultimist update brings Ultimist closer to being the ‘ultimate’ buyers guide for audiophiles.

You can now search through almost 10,000 classifieds that have been posted all over the U.S. on dealer’s websites, forums, and marketplaces.

You can also see elementary statistics about various aspects of the high-end audio market, its brands, products and publications.

These capabilities, and as more and more analytics are added to Ultimist, will be of help to you, whether you be audiophile, dealer or manufacturer. You will be able to see exactly what is happening in the U.S. and global audiophile marketplaces.

Soon, you will be able to find answers to questions like:

Who is talking (and where) about the brand you are interested in and are they talking about it more now than they did last month? Or less?

When is the best time of year to buy used gear made by your favorite brand?

As another example, say you are looking for a new 100 watt amp in the $5K to $7K range….

What amps like this are other people buying?

How long do they usually keep it before selling it? Where do they usually sell it?

What is their resale value?

How many days does it take to sell one, on average?

Where is the best website to post it for sale if you want the highest price? If you want the quickest sale?

Ultimist is a search engine, like Google, and an analysis engine, like Google Analytics – but for audiophiles and the high-end audio industry.

We think this will help people have a much easier time of it when it comes to choosing, buying, and selling their kick-ass gear.

“Save time. Save money. Get the really good stuff.”

 

 

How to build a vacuum tube

This video shows how audio vacuum tubes are made.

I always thought the process of fabricating vacuum tubes was largely automated.

But apparently not.

Seems like it would be hard to ‘scale up’ to meet demand, if such demand ever decided to increase wildly, which, you know, we all would like to see.

I found this off the news page at Ultimist, posted by AudiophilePure

The Rational Audiophile, another audio blog…

The Rational Audiophile, another audio blog to add to the Audiophile’s Guide page for high-end audio magazines on the internet.

The Rational Audiophile talks about the intersection of science and high-end audio.

I don’t always agree with what he says – but I don’t disagree either. His ideas are presented in a relatively succinct and well-thought out manner which in the end hopefully prompts us to reflect on what we think ourselves about the matter at hand.

Actually, it is weird. I agree with the vast majority of his conclusions, but find it extremely interesting how he reaches those conclusions. He take different routes than we do to reach the same conclusions. And they all seem quite logical, just different, which is ‘fascinating, Captain’ [as Spok might say].

Anyway, I enjoyed reading it.