[78-L] When a garden variety cartridge just won't do

[simmonssomer]

Hey, is there a catalogue for this stuff? That turntable mat sounds spiffy.
Haven't listened to my ping-pong LP for a while and I'll just bet  that 
speaker wire would do wonders.
Do they accept Diners Club?

Al S.

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Subject: Re: [78-L] When a garden variety cartridge just won't do


> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> Meanwhile, the potential purchasers are trying to figure out
>> how to get the Magna Carta abrogated, and recreate the
>> concepts of "peasantry" and "aristocracy"...?!
>
> I think it's more a case of a member of the peasantry figuring out a way 
> to relieve a member of the cash aristocracy of ten grand for nothing. 
> Pretty much everything in modern high-end stereo catalogs is designed to 
> lighten the wallets of the rich and stupid. Directional speaker wire, 
> thousand-dollar Tuscan granite turntable mats, magic green CD marker pens, 
> solid iridium RCA plugs, ionized air-pillow tweeter mounts....
>
> I have a friend who invested in a set of speaker wire lifts, that keep his 
> wires a few inches off the floor, which prevents some sort of harmonic 
> something-or-others. I asked him if he'd like to build his own nuclear 
> power plant in the basement, to provide perfectly smooth waveforms to 
> tittilate his tube amplifier with. Shame he only listens to terrible 
> music.
>
> I have another friend who likes to take his battered Herman's Hermits 
> records into posh listening rooms. "This is what I listen to", he says. 
> "ANY stereo can make direct-to-disc 1024-bit jazz breathing sound good; 
> but if you can bring this thrashed trash to life, I'm interested".
>
> The guys who have figured out how to sell this stuff to tone-deaf 
> millionaires are geniuses, in my view.
>
> -- 
> Steve
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