unreceivedogma
Responses from unreceivedogma
| Whats on your turntable tonight? “Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills“ - Big Brother and The Holding Company | |
| Does the first reflection point actually matter?? For what it is worth:The wife and I bought a distressed 3.5 story townhouse in the city of Newburgh NY for super cheap and did a top down restoration. Except for the top attic floor. It is there that I have my home office, studio and listening roo... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? I’ve used a Beard P505 for 35 years. It got a complete rebuild about 5 years ago. All new Audio grade caps, etc | |
| A pragmatic view of cartridge expenses / many questions I neglected to add that I use the Onyx for serious listening, which is 95% of my listening, the Rosewood as backup when the Onyx is being refurbished, and the Benz for parties and certain monophonic and pop LPs from the 50s and 60s. | |
| A pragmatic view of cartridge expenses / many questions My personal experience for what it is worth. - I bought my first vinyl LP - Rolling Stones 12 x 5 - when I was 9. That is 57 years ago. - when I was 14, I built my own “serious” system: Dyna PAS and Dyna 70 kits, Lafayette speakers, Grarard table ... | |
| I think some cables are just a little too expensive. oldhvymec"Allow"? It wasn’t allowed in the 1950s. We had a 90% tax rate, ... and we had David Hafler. The Dyna Stereo-70 amplifier was launched in 1959, and more than 350,000 sold before production ceased, making the ST-70 the most popular tube po... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? The hobby itself. | |
| Concrete Audio Speakers...Speaker Enclosures made out of Concrete ?.. hdclsRegarding horns: the room matters. I have had Altec 604Cs for ... 43 years now. They DID sound a little horny (tsk tsk) at first (and I have stayed with these speakers because at my price point, to my ears there is nothing that comes close to... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. What matters is the table/arm/cartridge interface. If they don't "have chemistry", it doesn't matter how much you spend on one over the other.I remember buying a Grado at the upper end of their offerings and installing it in my Sumiko MMT arm on m... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Slaw: you are about to get jealous. I still have my original press of Grievous Angel. I have a couple more presses. Near mint. I have almost the entire Gram Parsons catalogue. I saw Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris and the Fallen Angels at Upstair... | |
| Why high-end cable manufacturers don't post measurements? The Wizard of Oz will get back to you on that one. | |
| Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF! "limomangus Lafayette's before Radio Shack.I used to go there when I was a kid early 60s.I work for HLDalis Whole sale dist.,They had everything, cables,tubes,Audio Equipment ,great place to work at for $40 a week...LOL"I'm hearing you loud and a... | |
| Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF! I send all my cables to an ancient temple in Tibet. The cables stay with monks for 3 weeks. The monks meditate and pray with the cables. This makes a HUGE difference in sound quality and it also offers me a more deeply emotional - dare I say exist... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? This has gotta be a candidate for the Guinness book of Records world’s longest thread.OK:1 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung (Deutsche Grammophon)2 - Philip Glass - Music in Similar Motion / Music in Fifths (Chatham Square)3 - Brian Eno - Ambient... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry atmasphere :"The big deal you’re going to find is that if the tonearm properly tracks the cartridge, then the choice of cartridge is far less important than people make it out. By ’properly track’ I mean that no matter what is in the grooves, the ... |