It’s an easy swap, save for the second light on the front panel.Ron is a smart man. He made the 20/20 look identical to the Insight so married men could easily swap it out without the wife taking notice. Guess I'm now on the market
...............she'll notice
And use code DC10 for an additional 10% off open box items. It appears this code will work despite the "product not eligible for further discounts" disclaimer on the 20/20 pageJust to add to the angst around here, lol
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Right--I know THAT much haha. I'd be curious to see how big of an upgrade it might be over what my "friend" already has in the LX-LPS preamp. But he would theoretically move the LX-LPS preamp to his other turntable set up since that one has a shit preamp right now...all theoretical of course!
The LX-LPS is a really solid little unit, but there is no comparison.
I had a feeling based on price tag and reviews that the difference is huge. I think since there’s always talk about the importance of your different separates playing nice together, in the back of my mind I’m always somewhat worried about doing a huge upgrade on one aspect of my chain and not getting the most out of it because of the other parts of the chain. I think eventually I wanna get some Zus as speakers but don’t really have a great spot for them right now in my apartment so in the meantime I’ll upgrade other parts of my system
I would say if you have a long term goal, build according to that goal, don't waste money on the "in the mean time" gear, even if it doesn't play perfectly well with whatever, you need to keep in mind where you're headed as time goes by..........just my opinion
Good advice. Thanks! Since I currently have two setups (office and living room), whenever I upgrade stuff from one setup (like if I buy the 20/20 while I already have the LX-LPS), the older gear typically heads to the secondary setup that I use less frequently. But I think largely, my goals now are to save up to get to that end game setup instead of taking ministeps. I was debating going for the Insight to save money but I think I'd rather just wait longer and go big with the 20/20.I would say if you have a long term goal, build according to that goal, don't waste money on the "in the mean time" gear, even if it doesn't play perfectly well with whatever, you need to keep in mind where you're headed as time goes by..........just my opinion
I love my Insight, but should have help out for at least the 20/20, at this point the only jump I deem worthwhile would be the DUO and that's a hard $$ pill to swallow.
Makes sense! And I can be patient enough to save up to treat myself to bigger upgrades at this point. I don't plan on buying any other intermediate steps. Everything else I bought so far was done with the plan to move it to my secondary setup eventually!
That argument would so fail the spouse test.
But then how do I become knowledgable about every piece of equipment ever created without actually being in the biz?
