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

Happy Thanksgiving, Audio Note style

Thanksgiving. Audio Note. An itchy finger waiting to press play. [All the while trying stay out of the cook’s (Neli’s) way. Holidays. Phooey. What are they good for? Nuthin 🙂 I *like* getting in her way :-)]

Twas the night before…

No. That’s not right.

.. All was quiet in the house…

Well, it is really quiet. Even from up here in the foothills, inside the house with all the windows shut, you can tell most people have stayed home today and there is a lot less traffic noise

Today, we are spending some time upstairs listening, and then sometime down here on this little Audio Note system.

This system really fills and pressurizes the room – plays really loud and ‘just gets bigger, not more in-your-face’ as your turn up the volume, paraphrasing another listener here.

Funny, lately people come up and only listen to the big EMM Labs system upstairs or this more modest system, not both.

We did a power cord shoot out on this Audio Note system last week – it is amazing how much better and better the system gets as we put more and more expensive power cables on it.

This essentially $25K or so system really does beat many 100K+ systems [hey, it only took us 10(?!) years to figure out how to set up these speakers in an OCTAGONAL room. Better late than never. Most speakers love this shaped room, but Audio Note speakers like to be in corners… except there ain’t any here in the awesome but yet a little unusual house.].

It has resolution, imaging, wide, wide soundstage, lots and lots of dynamics and goes loud without straining.

Or, rather, it has Radiohead, Jarre, and Colin Stetson (thanks Glenn)

 

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Can’t decide whether I like this album, or whether it is going to give me nightmares. 🙂

But, more seriously, we are so thankful for getting to listen to all this YUMMY gear, to have made SO MANY friends through Audio Federation, and especially for all the people who decided to buy their cool a** stuff from a couple of crazy audiophiles… us!

Have a good one, everybody 🙂