When I say fired right up, I mean the drive started to spin. Upon insertion into the jack on the back of the Lumin D1, they fired right up. By that time, with the help of NAD’s superior customer service, I’d been able to backup the music stored on the 50.2, onto standard Western Digital and Seagate USB-connected drives. Tackle the setup of another digital player, how hard can it be? Once the Spendors had cleansed my digital palate, so to speak, and upon reluctantly returning them, I was in a calmer frame of mind. Besides, I’d just scored the Spendor D7’s to review, and they seemed far more interesting. Quite frankly, my analogue brain hurt from all the digital goings-on. I’d just finished wrestling with the NAD 50.2 )see Digital Music Player Reviews Part 1). When first offered the Lumin for review, I kind of shrugged it off. They are, to tube-loving audiophiles, the equivalent of a wet T-shirt contest. I mean, look at the picture of the EarMax headphone amp in MAL Part 9, or the McIntosh pictured below. Speakers and tube amps are, to me at least, far more interesting. Digital gear just seems to be ‘black boxes’, even if they are silver-looking, like the photo of the Lumin D1 above. Don’t get me wrong (again), I read Michael’s columns and enjoy his descriptions and pictures of esoteric analogue gear. As long as the next person isn’t Michael Fremer. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy good digital playback as much as the next person. Would I come and have a look at it for her? Who wouldn’t? Especially when the sister lived in a nursing students’ residence!ĭo you find digital components kind of, well, boring? I do. Her older sister had a new stereo and only one channel was working. Several months after she and my brother had parted ways, she called. One of my brothers dated a young woman briefly, a sweet girl, probably deserved an Academy Award for the interest she convincingly displayed when I showed her my stereo. I wasn’t with anyone special at this time. Speakers? A pair of $15, 10” woofers and $3 tweeters in plywood boxes were fine, were they not? Who needed anything more than an Empire cartridge on a Sony direct-drive turntable? A 40-watt Pioneer solid state am p was great. Audio, a hobby I’d had since my early teens, was fun and non-demanding.
Life was simple, I thought about the cars I’d buy if I was rich, I bought records, I listened to them on my stereo. It’s a bit of a convoluted story, but humour me.īack in the mid 1970’s, I was a young man with no attachments. The long and the short of it is, I met my wife of over four decades because of my interest in audio. My ‘What if?’ is, ‘What if I had never been interested in audio?’ I can say with great certainty my life would be nothing like it is today. When we stop and think about all the coincidences and random events that shape our lives, the mind boggles. ‘What ifs?’ are one of the things most people like to mentally tease themselves with, on occasion. Stay with me and I’ll get to it in due course. So why review it, you ask? Well….this isn’t a review, exactly. Digital Music Player Reviews: Part 2, plus….Īnother installment in the C/H/E series, a My Audio Life special and my wife gets her first stereo system in over forty years.Īs already mentioned in my Holiday gift guide, the Lumin D1 digital music player is not a current product.
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