unreceivedogma
Responses from unreceivedogma
| New Turntable Direction I’ve been using a VPI HW for 35 years. MK II at first, then upgraded to MK IV. With an MMT arm and a Koetsu. Best to avoid letting those marketers get into your brain and scratch your itch. If it ain’t broke... my two sense. | |
| Is Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) sexist? Render unto wives the things that are the wive’s, and to husbands the things that are the husband’s. My audio is in my office. Full stop. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Archie Shepp - A Sea of FacesOliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract TruthMax Roach - We Insist!The Swan Silvertones - Let Us All Go Back to the Old LandmarkSkip James - The Complete 1931 Sessions | |
| Are cables really worth their high price because of their geometry? Here we go again. | |
| How to select a good Speaker Cable For two decades, 18 gauge lamp wire did just fine. | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Looking forward to reading these stories. As for me, I started out when I was 14 years of age with a Garard table, Stanton and Pickering cartridges, Dynakits and Lafayette speakers. After college I was working at a calligraphy studio and getting p... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? I have been sending my Koetsus to Van den Hul for decades.I lived in NYC for 45 years, and have been living in the Hudson Valley for 3, and though I am now minutes from Soundsmith, he is not cheap, in fact he is far more expensive than sending it ... | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Do you listen to your music with your fingers? Good ears only need apply. | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? $12,000 cables is conspicuous consumption especially when the laws of diminishing returns, if not gravity itself combined with the placebo effect kick in, and therefore immoral imho. Use lamp wire and feed the starving children in Bangladesh. | |
| powercords The Law of Diminishing Returns applies especially in this category. That’s all I’m gonna say. 🙄 | |
| Which one to choose between two 80K$ tube amps? charles1dad:Spending choices invites a range of responses in a community with different levels of resources. I don't see why that should be so surprising in this day and age, especially after the worldwide discussion on inequality sparked by Piket... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Almost forgot:Paul Robeson - complete set of 78s on HMV from London | |
| Loudness - Why has the industry stopped producing amplifiers with this feature any longer? I have no loudness or tone controls. I’m sure others have explained better than I can why the shortest distance from A to B is an engineers goal. If you MUST have a tone variability option, tone controls provide more flexibility. Loudness was a ch... | |
| Tube versus SS Speculative, anecdotal at best with regard to COVID19. My stereo (just dated myself: who uses “stereo” anymore? It’s “audio”) sounds horrible when it’s humid out. Does everybody else’s? I don’t think so. As for ss v tube: ss sounds less colored mo... | |
| Tube versus SS Speculative, anecdotal at best with regard to COVID19. My stereo (just dated myself: who uses “stereo” anymore? It’s “audio”) sounds horrible when it’s humid out. Does everybody else’s? I don’t think so. As for ss v tube: ss sounds less colored mo... |