unreceivedogma
Responses from unreceivedogma
| Vinyl Lovers I have built up a collection of 6,000+ LPs over 59 years. - since 2005, I buy 98% of my LPs online, either over eBay (about 98%) or discogs (about 2%, but within the last year I’m going here more than eBay). - I buy only from vendors with a ratin... | |
| Vinyl Lovers I have been buying primarily through eBay for a couple of decades now. Maybe 90%. My 2nd source is discogs. I rarely buy at a brick and mortar store: the selections are far too limited. I look for NM pressings from close to the release date. I fi... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps Well, Anthony Cordesman in a Aug 7, 2018 reprint of a Sep 1, 1986 review in Stereophile said of the OTL3: The OTL-1 is probably the best amp available for the tube fanatic seeking the maximum possible emotional impact from recorded music. ... us... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps I have NYAL Futterman OTL3s. I don't know that I would characterize them as lush and romantic: they are fast, accurate, deeply transparent with a deep and actively present soundstage. | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions I don’t know why you don’t consider an OTL? Far superior transparency. I have NYAL Futtermans, but as they are rarer than rocking horse poop, the easier way to go would be the Atma-Spheres, which I understand are just as good. mambacfa, I still h... | |
| Futterman. Jump in? Or, not so fast... I am jumping into this thread rather late. I have had a pair of NYAL Futterman OTL3s since 1985, or for 38 years. For the first 20 years, they would go on the fritz every 5 to 6 years. Since Jon Specter, with George Kaye’s assistance, converted t... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? I’ve had my NY Audiolab Futterman OTL3s, my VPI HW MK IV table, my Sumiko MMT arm for 38 years. Outside of the tubes, the needle in the Koetsu Onyx, I’m not likely to change anything now. Caring for, starting up the amps, waiting for them to get ... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @kota1 Thank you. Either a labor of love or an extreme form of a narcissistic disorder of some sort. The cartridge was a gift from a very famous musician who is from Canada, a member of a 1960’s group that played at Woodstock who has been solo... | |
| is sensorineural hearing loss permanent? Tinnitus can today be “cured” through “TRT”: tinnitus retraining therapy. The short answer is that the brain is fed sounds at a frequency that cancel out the sounds you are “hearing”, and your brain is then taught to ignore them. The success rat... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @kota1 no worries, I’m set. see https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/ I put the whole shebange together over a few decades for less than $30K. | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. - Turntables matter. - No need to spend $75K. $3,000 used will do. | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @kota1 Looks prohibitively expensive. | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? Yes | |
| RIP Robbie Robertson I met Levon once, around 2002 or so, at the groundbreaking for Bethel Woods, the outdoor concert venue that sits next to the original 1969 Woodstock site. I’ve gone to some shows at his Barn between Woodstock and Saugerties, not far from Big Pink,... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? I know the initial post was about Koetsu forgeries, but the discussion went sideways into 3rd party retipping. I had been using Van den Hul for a couple decades. With COVID19, I decided I didn’t want to chance sending the cartridge across the pon... |