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| Re: Compared to South Korea? Are you kidding? What the hell are you talking about? The high end Denon's are knocking on the door of $4k. This is NOT what you find at Best Buy. But if your happy with a $200 Samsung, more power to you (I have 10 times more than that invested in cables). Some of us go through great lengths and great expense to achieve our audio/video nirvana. It's a hobby, not unlike any other.
»www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails···gers.asp
Sure Denon has their el-cheapo $150 players but that's not even in the ball park of what I'm talking about. If you start talking about a player that weighs 40 pounds with Faroudja or DVDO processing, Burr-Brown DAC's and will play every media on the market (and some most have never heard of), then you are getting the idea.
It all comes down to the source. You can have the best amps, speakers, subs, etc on the market but if you have a sh!tty source, you get sh!tty performance. When just your amps are in the thousands, a $2500 player is actually a little on the low end. It would probably disgust you even further to know that the cables connecting the Denon to the preamp cost a little more than the Denon did. Hell, just the amplifiers cost almost three times as much. There are some amps out there, mono-block single channel, costing over $100k.
All things considered, my system, costing as much as a brand new Range Rover, is really on the mild side in the Audiophile kingdom. Besides, I prefer the Lincoln Navigator and already have one of those.
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