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| 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... | |
| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps I have NYAL Futterman OTL3s. I don't know that I would characterize them as lush and romantic: they are fast, accurate, deeply transparent with a deep and actively present soundstage. | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions I don’t know why you don’t consider an OTL? Far superior transparency. I have NYAL Futtermans, but as they are rarer than rocking horse poop, the easier way to go would be the Atma-Spheres, which I understand are just as good. mambacfa, I still h... | |
| Futterman. Jump in? Or, not so fast... I am jumping into this thread rather late. I have had a pair of NYAL Futterman OTL3s since 1985, or for 38 years. For the first 20 years, they would go on the fritz every 5 to 6 years. Since Jon Specter, with George Kaye’s assistance, converted t... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? I’ve had my NY Audiolab Futterman OTL3s, my VPI HW MK IV table, my Sumiko MMT arm for 38 years. Outside of the tubes, the needle in the Koetsu Onyx, I’m not likely to change anything now. Caring for, starting up the amps, waiting for them to get ... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @kota1 Thank you. Either a labor of love or an extreme form of a narcissistic disorder of some sort. The cartridge was a gift from a very famous musician who is from Canada, a member of a 1960’s group that played at Woodstock who has been solo... | |
| is sensorineural hearing loss permanent? Tinnitus can today be “cured” through “TRT”: tinnitus retraining therapy. The short answer is that the brain is fed sounds at a frequency that cancel out the sounds you are “hearing”, and your brain is then taught to ignore them. The success rat... | |
| Who has the Sickness, the Phile or the Non-phile? @kota1 no worries, I’m set. see https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/ I put the whole shebange together over a few decades for less than $30K. |