unreceivedogma
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| Speaker that are 'KEEPERS" for the long haul!!! I’ve owned Altec Lansing 604Cs and Ds since the late 1970s. Still chugging’ along. | |
| Digitally recorded vinyl vs streaming The 90s were chaotic as to whether a vinyl recording was AAA, ADA, DDA. There are other variables, as others noted, too many variables. I’d go maybe a little farther than others here by simply saying that you have to judge on a case by case basis.... | |
| Quick Question About Power Cables @ghdprentice That IS what you said, and @kennyc seems to agree. Btw, I’m rather proud to be able to get $160K worth of performance out of $30K + some work and ingenuity. I’m done with this thread. Carry on. | |
| Quick Question About Power Cables @ghdprentice ”There are some folks that cannot hear audio improvements that are very apparent to many of us.” I was reluctant to enter this conversation at all because of obnoxious attitudes such as yours. You suggest that I am hearing deficien... | |
| When are speakers considered Hi-Fi and not Mid-Fi??? Mid-fi, as others have so noted, seems like a marketing term, rather than a term having any use in characterizing quality differential. I never heard of it until now. | |
| Quick Question About Power Cables @ghdprentice I have tried them. I trust my ears, which hear negligible improvement, if any, it might just be the placebo effect of justifying spending so much money and the cost/benefit ratio just does not justify it: I’ll sooner donate the $... | |
| How to prevent visitors from touching your system When expecting guests, I take that day's poop that I've picked up after walking my delightful Mitsy and instead of dropping it in the trash can, i artfully place it on top of the turntable dust cover. | |
| Quick Question About Power Cables Here we go again. For what it is worth, imo power chords don't do much, if anything. | |
| 4 8 or 16 ohms. I owned a Dyna 70 and still own a pair of Dyna MK IIIs. They had posts for 4, 8, and 16. I was always told it did not matter, but matching them to the speaker impedance almost always sounded best. My Futtermans have only one post. The engineer sa... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops High end stereo shops are dinosaurs because: — Rents are high — Brick and mortar shops have other high end expenses, pardon the pun — young people don't care about audio nor music anymore, they want convenience and wallpaper Why single out high... | |
| Why are speaker stands so expensive?! Speaker stands are furniture that must perform acoustically. You can scrimp on them, and you will get what you pay for. | |
| Shindo vs the world I auditioned Shindo amps at a shop in NoHo in NYC. They are the only amps that I felt competed with my Futterman OTL3s. That said, let’s talk about the so-called Altec Shindos. I was walking home from work one day some 10 or 15 (?, Steve Gutten... | |
| Do my ears deceive me?? My speakers are 68 years old. I recone them every ten years. My ears never deceive me, but the brain that they are connected to often does. | |
| Turntable is the most expensive in the chain, do it make sense @tablejockey ”…I’m aware the VPI philosophy is far from true ‘high performance’…” I am not sure why you would say that. I went from a Garard to a Dual 1229 to a VPI HW MK II, upgraded to MK IV. I’ve had the VPI for 38 years. Built like a br... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Imho, never consider buying a table without also considering the arm and cartridge to go with it as a system. fwiiw, I’ve got a VPI HW MK IV, Sumiko MMT, and a Koetsu Onyx. I bought the store model of the table and arm, the cartridge second han... |