Hello guakus:
I’ve been at this audio thing for 53 years, since I built a Dyna70 and a Dyna PAS from kits at the age of 14, when I was a member of that lumpen proletariat that the apply named dadork rather too readily and self-revealingly takes comfort in mocking and sneering at. To him I say no, you are wrong, there are mountains of studies about how the structure of our economic system has increasingly constrained mobility in the U.S., some studies even from conservative think tanks (though I highly recommend that he read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, and Capital and Ideology), but I suspect he will demonstrate the same inertia towards educating himself on the issue that he accuses the proletariat of displaying with regard to upward mobility.
But I digress.
Since I was 14, I have made improvements to the system. They are few and far between, chosen to enhance a system that is specifically committed to analog tube sound, with economy in mind. Few and far between does not mean that I haven’t taken the time to audition many, many components, some costing far more than what I finally ended up with.
I went through auditioning exercises with cables that cost up to $2K.
Go to
https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/about
to see a listing of the components in my current setup.
By far, the biggest improvement to my system was the one I made 3 years ago: building a room with a gabled ceiling that is covered with 6” to 17” of rockwool and burlap, and finally figuring out where that sub belongs.
By far, the components with the least impact were speaker cables and interconnects. Note that I don’t even bother to include mention of them on the About page.
And I don’t really care, at the end, what kind of science went into the cables. I worked in Pharma advertising for over two decades, and in doing so I got to see how tens of millions of dollars can be poured into products that ultimately don’t perform as well as designed, or that fail altogether. I think somebody said show me the beef.
I now finally have my system pretty much where I have wanted it for these 53 years (sadly, when my hearing goes up only to 13 or 14Khz instead of 17 or 18Khz, 😢). No, I’m just not gonna pay a lotta money for that cable. I don’t need to call them snake oil to guild the lilly around my decision (not that there’s anything wrong with that, and not that the folks doing so shouldn’t be taken seriously), the decision still stands, and speaks for itself, as it has for decades.
Until when or if we evolve beyond our capitalist society, people are free to spend the dollars that they acquire as they wish. Full stop.
regards all.
I’ve been at this audio thing for 53 years, since I built a Dyna70 and a Dyna PAS from kits at the age of 14, when I was a member of that lumpen proletariat that the apply named dadork rather too readily and self-revealingly takes comfort in mocking and sneering at. To him I say no, you are wrong, there are mountains of studies about how the structure of our economic system has increasingly constrained mobility in the U.S., some studies even from conservative think tanks (though I highly recommend that he read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, and Capital and Ideology), but I suspect he will demonstrate the same inertia towards educating himself on the issue that he accuses the proletariat of displaying with regard to upward mobility.
But I digress.
Since I was 14, I have made improvements to the system. They are few and far between, chosen to enhance a system that is specifically committed to analog tube sound, with economy in mind. Few and far between does not mean that I haven’t taken the time to audition many, many components, some costing far more than what I finally ended up with.
I went through auditioning exercises with cables that cost up to $2K.
Go to
https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/about
to see a listing of the components in my current setup.
By far, the biggest improvement to my system was the one I made 3 years ago: building a room with a gabled ceiling that is covered with 6” to 17” of rockwool and burlap, and finally figuring out where that sub belongs.
By far, the components with the least impact were speaker cables and interconnects. Note that I don’t even bother to include mention of them on the About page.
And I don’t really care, at the end, what kind of science went into the cables. I worked in Pharma advertising for over two decades, and in doing so I got to see how tens of millions of dollars can be poured into products that ultimately don’t perform as well as designed, or that fail altogether. I think somebody said show me the beef.
I now finally have my system pretty much where I have wanted it for these 53 years (sadly, when my hearing goes up only to 13 or 14Khz instead of 17 or 18Khz, 😢). No, I’m just not gonna pay a lotta money for that cable. I don’t need to call them snake oil to guild the lilly around my decision (not that there’s anything wrong with that, and not that the folks doing so shouldn’t be taken seriously), the decision still stands, and speaks for itself, as it has for decades.
Until when or if we evolve beyond our capitalist society, people are free to spend the dollars that they acquire as they wish. Full stop.
regards all.