unreceivedogma
Responses from unreceivedogma
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. I think that you just don’t like the Benz. You should simply say so and let it go at that. No need to jump from there to saying that Benz must be doing something wrong. My Benz out of the box tracked fine, no technical issues. That said, I don’t u... | |
| Your Forever Pieces? What and Why? This is pretty easy for me as I’ve had most of my gear forever already. My keepers, with the number of years I’ve had them, are:IN USE40 years - Altec Lansing 604C - 16 ohm, 101 dB. The serial number dated them at 1954, so they are as old as I am.... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Frogman, life is short. | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Shkong78, The OTL3s are almost impossible to come by. I’d be surprised if there were 1,000 pair surviving, most in Japan most likely. I can ask Jon to keep an eye out for a pair, but short of having him build a new pair from scratch, you may be wa... | |
| Greatest debut album Wcfeil you are correct. At 64 years of age, the brain cells are dying by the trillions as I write this. By the time I hit post, I’ll be ready for assisted living. Add to the fact fact that I have 6,000 LPs, excuse me if I don’t remember all the ti... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Frogman, there are so many variables that even when I hear a cartridge demo in an audio store, I am still at best only 50% confident (in other words, a crap shoot) as to what it’s going to sound like with my other components in my own listening en... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Why would triode sound better than pentode? Why woukd my Altec Lansing 604Cs be better for my Julius Futterman OTL3s At 16 ohms rather than 8 ohms?And, with regard to the great interconnect debate: do you know of any testing done that approaches t... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Like others here, I am of the generation where I thought all of us argued over whether Heathkit, Dynaco or McIntosh was the best. In 1968, when I was 14, I put my money from mowing neighbor’s lawns and shoveling their snow into a Dyna Stereo 70, s... | |
| Greatest debut album Inner Mounting Flame imho does not qualify as a debut. John McLoughlin did two LPs on Douglas - after he left Miles’s Bitches Brew band, before he formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra. My best debut LPS would be, in no particular order, excepting The D... | |
| $10k Speaker Cables?????????????? As I have said many times before: $10K cables, and for that matter, $200K turntables, $600K speakers, etc etc exist because there are so many people these days with net worths north of $1B who probably send someone out to do their audio shopping f... | |
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. Btw, speaking of the-tipping, FYI to anyone who might be curious: I go through the risk of sending my cartridges across The Pond to The Netherlands in order to have Van denHul refurbish them, even though I live in Newburgh NY, a short 20 minute dr... | |
| Turning off tube preamp first sends solid state amp into protection? Don’t be lazy. The rule is quite simple: preamp on first, amplifier on last. Reverse for off. Its easy. Really. It is. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Maybe it’s just me, but I find it to be oxymoronic to be asked to judge the performance of anolog equipment over a digital platform. | |
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. 1 - First off, I take it as a given that anyone who posts here understands how critical the cartridge and stylus is to good vinyl analog sound. I don’t know why that would be a revelation, as others here have pointed out. 2 - the cartridge/tonearm... | |
| Personal vs. Market Values I think I’m some ways this is really simple. Trust your ears. Trust yourself. Act accordingly. |