After having purchased my Viking Acoustic Grande Voix speakers and Canary Audio Grand Reference Mono Amps with a C1800 Pre-Amp, I decided to investigate updating my Lumin X-1. I guess we are always looking to upgrade our system within reason....right? So, I started testing my wife about the possibility and she could not understand why I would want to do that because she thought our system sounded fantastic. I tried to explain that as good as our system sounds, I believe it could sound that much better. For the last month I have been doing a lot of research on many many DAC's. In fact, many people on this forum have helped me with finalizing my decision.
My wife has watched me with curiosity for the last month asking me why I have been spending so much time on the Internet. Oh, I responded just looking at what the possibilities are to improve our system. Even though I am functionally blind, I could hear the gasp of frustration in her voice and look. So now I have honed in on the Lampi Pacific. The question is how do I tell her? In the past, I could sneak $1000 cable by here without any problems. But how do you sneak a 28K DAC by her? That is a big dilemma.
On Saturday we were driving to the grocery store and I decided to bring the subject up. I gasped for air and then caught myself. She immediately said what's up. I said ahhh nothing. She said no come on tell me. I said well OK. I told her that I think I have finalize my decision to buy a new DAC. Thank God she was driving. Thankfully, she did not slam on the brakes. She calmly asked what are you looking at and how much does it cost. Nervously, I said $28k. She blurted out, are you freaking kidding me except she did not say freaking. I said, but I will sell my Lumin X-1. She said, you won't heat my pool but you want to spend 28K on a DAC. Hmmm, she got me there and I was speechless. I did not have an answer to her comment on heating the pool.
After calming down, she said if this will make you happy and the final component that you buy I guess it is OK. Well, to pour gas on the fire, I had to mention that I also needed a LDMS Music Server. That might've been a mistake...lol. She asked how much is that? I said 8-10k. To that she said I am heating the F#%&ing pool.
Anything to make my wife happy!!!!!!!!!! I bought my wife flowers at the grocery store.
My wife has watched me with curiosity for the last month asking me why I have been spending so much time on the Internet. Oh, I responded just looking at what the possibilities are to improve our system. Even though I am functionally blind, I could hear the gasp of frustration in her voice and look. So now I have honed in on the Lampi Pacific. The question is how do I tell her? In the past, I could sneak $1000 cable by here without any problems. But how do you sneak a 28K DAC by her? That is a big dilemma.
On Saturday we were driving to the grocery store and I decided to bring the subject up. I gasped for air and then caught myself. She immediately said what's up. I said ahhh nothing. She said no come on tell me. I said well OK. I told her that I think I have finalize my decision to buy a new DAC. Thank God she was driving. Thankfully, she did not slam on the brakes. She calmly asked what are you looking at and how much does it cost. Nervously, I said $28k. She blurted out, are you freaking kidding me except she did not say freaking. I said, but I will sell my Lumin X-1. She said, you won't heat my pool but you want to spend 28K on a DAC. Hmmm, she got me there and I was speechless. I did not have an answer to her comment on heating the pool.
After calming down, she said if this will make you happy and the final component that you buy I guess it is OK. Well, to pour gas on the fire, I had to mention that I also needed a LDMS Music Server. That might've been a mistake...lol. She asked how much is that? I said 8-10k. To that she said I am heating the F#%&ing pool.
Anything to make my wife happy!!!!!!!!!! I bought my wife flowers at the grocery store.