unreceivedogma
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| The "Snake Oil" Trope guakus:You have failed to respond to my position. I am not calling anyone snake oil salesmen. I have tried about a dozen cable interconnects and speaker cables over the decades that are attached to what I regard as hefty prices. You insist that th... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @ mitch2Thx! Come back in February. I might have a good running start on having all 5,500 there by then. Not all with the summaries of course 😆 | |
| Critical listening and altered states What’s a goal, if not the goal, of audio? To produce a euphoric state. It seems there are many paths towards that goal, and that they may overlap. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope cleeds, vinyl guy’s reasoning is sound. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope 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 com... | |
| How long does Class A have? My Futtermans do double duty in the winter: they keep my listening room - in the attic - nice and warm. I never have to turn up the heat.As for climate change, I thought politics was verboten here. I'm as left as they come on this issue and others... | |
| The smallest tube amp Not for me. Enuf said. | |
| Helping a friend build a new system For the amp, try a Dyna 70. Still great little amps, simple uncomplicated design. A refurbished, souped up one can be had for $1,500 or less and will hold their own against units costing multiple times more. | |
| A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong! My VPI HW ML II is 36 years old. | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio I have 1,600 Afro-Cuban LPs. This stuff is known for not exactly rolling off the presses in good shape. Thankfully, my high end setup makes these pressings sound ... better, usually much better. | |
| Audio deals you bought that seem impossible for the price? I buy floor demo models and second hand. I’ve saved at least 60%. | |
| Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music? Millercarbon, Thomas More may have coined the word from the Greek “ou-topics”, but he meant it as a pun, since the Greek “eu-topos” means “a pleasant place”. So I think you are not entirely on solid ground. | |
| BBE Sonic Maximizer Go to this link, and see what I have in my signal path:theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/aboutMy system is not unsophisticated. These things work...when used judiciously, on recordings that were badly engineered. Overdo the settings, these things go s... | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? Maybe you should direct that nervous energy instead into the exploration of genres of music and the wide range of artists and performances within each? That could take a lifetime and yet you would only be scratching the surface. For example, I hav... | |
| THE IRS HAS TAKEN MY TRANSACTIONS VIA PAYPAL AND IDENTIFIED THEM AS TAXABLE INCOME I disagree with jdane about the hobby part. If you have the receipt showing you paid $1000 for something and the receipt showing you sold the same thing for $500, that’s a $500 loss to be applied against other income. I’m not a tax lawyer but it d... |