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

[David Lennick]

If you build it, they will breathe hard.

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 2:14 AM
> 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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