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so you want to build your ultimate audio
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file
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system maybe your Forever system for
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$100 I know it's a little bit click e
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not click bity click e but if you can
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save $100 consistently hopefully each
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month you can create a killer
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system we're going to talk about how to
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do that and I know it's crazy because
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this hobby is all about the pho fear of
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missing out on the next greatest thing
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but if you implement just a few of these
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ideas you are well on your way to having
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your perfect forever dream system so sit
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down grab a cup of coffee and let's talk
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about building the ultimate audio file
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system for
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$100 why $100 I think $100 is The Sweet
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Spot most of the people that are our age
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I.E gen xors yay Baby Boomers yay can
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maybe afford $100 we can hide it away in
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a shoe box and if you can save $100 per
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month at the end of the year you have
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$1,200 and $1,200 it used to be ,000 but
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$1,200 is kind of a magic sweet spot you
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can get really really good gear that can
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last a long long time and I think the
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law of diminishing returns OB obviously
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that's a moving Target really kicks in
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around $1,200 between $1,000 to $2,000
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now I'm not saying that every $1,200
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product out there is perfect you're
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still going to have to do some research
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but if you do this for four years you're
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going to have four components all within
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that price range that are going to be
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awesome if you do some
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research how do you get started well
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most of us probably have $11,200 worth
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of stuff laying around our house that we
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don't use and you can sell it to get
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into this hobby or get your first
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component my whole Channel started from
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selling off my old Star Wars figures
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Star Wars vehicles and gii Joe figures
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interestingly enough GI Joe toys were
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worth way more than Star Wars toys I
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didn't think that would be the case when
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my parents moved to Arizona I had a big
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box of all my toys I was very fastidious
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about them so they all had their
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original accessories weaponry and when
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they dropped off the box I thought about
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just selling the whole thing for like a
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hundred bucks but I put them up on eBay
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each one and after I sold a whole bunch
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of them I had about
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$4,000 to buy my first system I bought a
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Moon by Sim audio integrated amplifier
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and a pair of KF ls50s and I listened to
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them and I was so disgusted because my
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AVR and some $500 speakers sounded just
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as good that I had to start a channel I
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became enraged the point is if you look
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around around your house you find some
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stuff that you're not using you can sell
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it and get that first piece of Hi-Fi
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awesomeness the second thing the key
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thing outside of saving money and
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selling stuff to get money is don't buy
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dumb
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stuff if we really look at our lives we
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do an inventory we look at our bank
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account we see what are we spending
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money on every day then we can change
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our priorities put a little bit towards
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the Hi-Fi system and you also get a
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little bit of satisfaction when you make
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a decision not to buy the $6 coffee and
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to take that $6 and to put it into a
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little envelope lock boox because you
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know you're checking boxes you're voting
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for your audio file system every time we
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do one little behavior and it's tangible
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we know what it is it's a vote for what
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we want to do and if we want to have a
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really nice system it can be built on
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one decision at a time it's a mind M
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it's a brain
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mentality then at the end of the day you
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can look back and say Hey did I vote for
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my audio file system or did I vote for
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short-term instant gratification vote
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long-term vote audio file make high-fi
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great again sorry I had to I had to do
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that the other thing that you can do to
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kind of vote in favor of your long-term
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audio file system is to buy products
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that have some type of resale value or
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buy used after something's kind of
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depreciated and it's still current and
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to also look at retail outlets like the
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music room because the music room takes
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gear on trade but they're not going to
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take probably a fzy audio bt20a on trade
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they will probably take something from
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gold node or Unison research something
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that's kind
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of a tier up but if you buy it used you
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use it for a while and then you trade it
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in on something that you're after you're
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going to have some residual value to
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that product I am not saying don't buy
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fzy audio I love fuzzy audio and a lot
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of us can't save $100 a month or we
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don't have a system to begin with trust
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me I've got a ton of videos out there
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about Building Systems under 500 under
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$350 and those are awesome and will get
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you started but this is a hobby that if
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you really want to take it to the 96
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percentile you can do that $100 at a
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time to do this though you have to delay
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gratification you have to fight off fomo
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you have to stop buying stuff today you
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have to put a plan in place and you have
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to be a bit
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disciplined let's talk about some
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products that I would recommend around
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the $1,200 price point
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for amps you can look at an integrated
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amp or you can look at a straight power
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amp for integrated amps I like the cxa81
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Mark I from Cambridge audio forgot the
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name of the company if you're looking
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for a power amp I would look at
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something like the xpa Gen 3 I think
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from emotiva comes in right around
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$1,200 for a two Channel version of that
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now if you do that you're going to need
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some type of volume control or preamp on
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the front end you can use something like
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the weam ultra to control volume some
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Dax also can control volume there's also
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an advanced Paris integrated amp for
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right around the $1,000 price point
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personally for me the integrated amps
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that I really love are a little bit more
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expensive than $1,200 coming in around
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$2,000 or
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$2500 those would be the advanced Paris
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A10 classic the Unison research Unico
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Primo advanced also has a power amp with
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Vu meters that comes in around $2,000
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but I know we're kind of talking the
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$1,200 price point if you have any other
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integrated amps or power amps around
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that $1,000 price point please put it in
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the
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comments for streamers I like the CX
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n100 from Cambridge audio or the EXN
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from Cambridge audio ex's a little bit
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better but if you're going to buy a a
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really good Dack then the cxn 100 is
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probably just fine the reason why I like
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the cxn 100 it's got really good
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clocking so if you buy a $1,000 Dax
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something like the denif Reps Aries or
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the delli labs Daisy you're basically
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using it as a streamer transport and I
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would recommend personally spending a
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lot of money on the DAC instead of the
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streamer you can get streamers less
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expensive than the CX n 100 but if
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you're looking for the utmost in musical
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Fidelity the internal
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clock in the cxn 100 is worth it now
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there's a workaround for that with the
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weam ultra and the smsl po1 100 you have
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to go USB out of the weam ultra into the
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smsl po100 and then that into a USB
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connection on your deck that takes care
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of a lot of the timing issues with the
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weam ultra some people also really like
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the ever solo product I don't like it
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because I don't like the Android
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interface but if you don't mind the
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Android interface I think the ever solo
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products DMP A6 or A8 are really good
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options sonically maybe not using it but
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sonically they're really good
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options speakers are a little bit more
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difficult you can get a really good
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speaker for 12 or $1500 but a lot of
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times the $2,000 price point is kind of
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the ultimate level but I like the sonus
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Faber Lumin 2 amators they come in
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around $1,500 they're just a bookshelf
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speaker though so if you want a floor
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standing speaker I would look at
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something like the Q Acoustics 5040 very
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natural sounding speaker incredible
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mid-range good top end you can also look
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at the emotiva XT ons or XT 2s emotiva
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is usually running some type of sale so
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the xt2 is will probably come in around
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that $1,200 price point xt1 I like
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though because even though they have
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smaller woofers than the x-t 2s I still
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think that they're perfect for almost
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every even a really really big room the
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XT ons work out just great so in summary
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this is all about delaying gratification
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this is all about saving money this is
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all about kind of being smart about how
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you buy products and getting stuff that
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has decent resale value and this is also
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about just getting off your rear end and
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selling stuff that you don't use I super
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guilty of just letting stuff stack up
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that I never use when most of it's worth
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a little bit at least so if you want
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that ultimate audio file system you can
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do it $100 at a time and you can get it
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kickstarted by going into your garage
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and logging into Facebook Marketplace or
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Ebay I hope you like this video if you
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want to check out some of the videos I
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did on really affordable systems under
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$500 under $350 I will link them right
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here and here check them out you'll love
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them
