unreceivedogma
Responses from unreceivedogma
| Big speakers, are they really the best way to get great sound? Imho the more air you move, the better. So, the bigger the better, … relative to room size and room tuning. | |
| How long does it take your tube amp to warm up? My NYAL Futterman OTL3s, converted to triode with eight 6LF6 tubes take about 20 minutes of warming up while playing music. At 40 minutes they lock in. | |
| Speaker Efficiency My understanding about this is that less efficient speakers drive your tubes harder. So, shorter tube life. But I can’t say for sure, maybe someone can comment on that point. | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? @cleeds Of the 3,000 books in my library, I have several shelves devoted to history books that unequivocally dispute your assertions about the frequency of change. As for your other comment about 1/6, you clearly did not cognitively grasp what ... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? @mahgister organize. The easy stuff is shareholder resolutions, strikes, boycotts. The hard part is revolution, which won’t happen for the foreseeable future because the working classes in the U.S. seem more inclined towards fascism at the momen... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? “…You're being silly because it's essentially impossible for any of us to change our economic system.” Totally wrong. Systems are changed all the time, either at the ballot box, through grassroots organizing with thousands of others, through cata... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? @cleeds “why do you remain a passive victim to a system you dislike?” Did you read what I wrote? No, you would rather overwrite it with your ideological assumptions, which willfully obscure one of my points. There’s nothing passive about me or w... | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? “When it comes to price people can charge what they want for what they create. If you don’t want it. Don’t pay for it.” Dead wrong. Economic systems are not something handed down from God: they are social constructs. If you don’t like $1.2M au... | |
| True high-end Speakers need a midrange As soon as someone utters an absolutism, I turn off. “True high fidelity”: what is that? It’s what each individual listener hears for themselves. Btw, I’ve been fine with my Altec 604Cs since 1978. When guests come to hear them for the first t... | |
| Speaker and Cable Suggestions Please High efficiency is always a good choice for tubes imo. As for cables, try lamp wire.* Seriously: focus on good speakers first. Then see how much you want to waste on speaker cable. Imho, as long as it’s thick enough, you’re good. * Oh merciful... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? Forty-five years ago, when I had yet settle on my Altec 604C speakers, I went through about a dozen different models. I found myself gravitating to speakers that sacrificed some detail for a life-like you-are-there - “dynamic” - presentation. Thes... | |
| The most natural sound in the world. Audio systems being played back through YouTube always cracks me up. | |
| 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... |