unreceivedogma
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| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... One other point:Once I settled on a cartridge, I stay with it. I’ve gotten decades of use out of the Benz and the Koetsu Rosewood Platinum. The Onyx is a relatively new addition. I have been sending them all to Van den Hul for retipping for 20 yea... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... I have been able to minimize risk by doing the following:A - do the homeworkB - listen in a showroom on a setup that approximates your own as best possible C - buy the showroom model. The minus: it’s used, but by salespeople who are supposed to kn... | |
| Do 45 rpm 12" LPs really sound better than 33 rpm? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. So many factors go into it. I have mfsl pressings of the Jefferson Airplane’s Crown of Creation at 33 rpm and Volunteers at 45 rpm. Both originally mastered by the same guy, Wally Heider. The mfsl at 33 sounds decidedl... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Roberjerman,With tegard to the popularuty if the Denon cartridge, warning: I’m about to be totally crass and utterly tasteless here, if you can’t tolerate it don’t read further. Hitler won an election. If he was so popular, how could he be so bad? | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Prof1:19well put. 1:52i totally disagree. Commercially available CDs and other digital formats, due to corporate imperatives (profit) are by design not equal to analog. I’m not saying digital can’t get there. I understand Neil Young is trying. Bu... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. In the late 90s, the president of Sony Music said that at the dawn of the CD era, it was decided that the industry’s sampling rate for CDs was to be in large part shaped by marketing considerations. Specifically, it was determined that 95% of musi... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? How about from minute to minute hour to hour1 Frederick Rzewski - Coming Together 2 Hazel and Alice - Hazel and Alice, on Rounder, 19733 Astor Piazzola - Zero Hour4 Colin Walcott - Grazing Dreams5 Giovanni Batista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater, the per... | |
| If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be? Cant do it. It changes from day to day week to week month to month year to year. So, for shits n’ kicks, here’s a snapshot:1 Eva Cassidy - Live from Blues Ally. 4 LP set2 Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord3 Henryk Gorecki - Symphony of Sorr... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD A Denon cartridge? Why would you do that to your vinyl? You’re kidding me, right?In legal circles, this is called a results based outcome. Sounds to me like you wanted the digital to win, and you put a piece $300 cartridge in there to make sure of... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier bep24:yes, they are. | |
| $10k Speaker Cables?????????????? Wesheadley:”3,000 billionaires -- no, these products are made for high net-worth professionals and of course, the venerable trust-fund-babies...”Like, whatever, dude. That doesn’t change the point that I’m making, which is that economic inequity h... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Bdp34,Thank you for that. So, ESLS like Futtermans. And the Futtermans like the Altecs because? | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Atmaspheres:I have 6,000 LPs. A lot of them have a good bottom, some have an excellent bottom. I love the Theodorakis performance, but alas it’s like listening through cotton. Let’s see what it sounds like in my new room. I’ll let you know. M | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Ramtubes: “SPL”you just went technical on me. I’m gonna take a wild guess: sound pressure level?I think the debate between cone and electrostatic is reminding me of the great cable interconnect debate. Could it be that this is just personal prefe... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Ramtubes,My bad. I rarely go to shows. I meant showrooms. Audio store showrooms I presume are set up to show the gear at some approximation of optimability. By “more power” I’m just going by where I set the volume control before and after. It was ... |