Follow this handy step-by-step instructional.
- Buy your sixth “newly remastered” reissue copy of (pick one) “Kind of Blue” / “Dark Side of the Moon” / “Brothers in Arms” / “Aja”.
- Play it and compare to your other five copies. Take notes. Decide which is best, while admitting they all have their weaknesses. Lament what “could have been”.
- Next day, tear up your notes. Do it all over again, and arrive at completely different conclusions.
- When finally satisfied you have found the obvious winner, go to Steve Hoffman Music Forum and make your case.
- Wait for person who owns 12 copies of “Kind of Blue” / “Dark Side” / “Brothers” / “Aja” to tell you how wrong you are, and blame your turntable / cartridge / D-A converter / speakers / ears, all of which obviously need an upgrade. Wait for other person to tell you you have to find an “original pressing” of 50-plus-year-old album in new, unplayed condition.
It’s a special kind of crazy. Go nuts!
I have one phrase I like to use but no one will know where it came from:
Years ago, Todd Rundgren critiqued one of the Rolling Stones albums. He was merciless. Mick Jagger’s response – Who’s Todd Rundgren?
Spend $120 on RCA cables that are ‘Oxygen Free’
$120? Don’t be ridiculous. You need to buy these cables.
Worth the money! Those ones plug themselves in.
You are never going to experience high fidelity with that cheap rubbish.
This thread hurts my sides a’laughin’. I was involved in this ‘industry’ for a while.
Maybe you are right. At least they haven’t been tested against coat hangers yet.
Yeah you guys are laughing but the last line of that article makes a damn good point that you skeptics miss:
Of course, a coat hanger doesn’t have a Monster Cable lifetime warranty, so if your coat hanger breaks, you’ll have to go out and buy another coat hanger.
Cop that smart-asses.
And I wouldn’t dare power my amplifier with anything other than a Nordost Odin Supreme Reference Power Cord. It put me way behind on my mortgage, but it’s still the best $20K I ever spent.
Back in the early days of CDs and CD players, a guy I worked with spent a good chunk of the family savings on a fairly pricey unit. I remember him telling me rather proudly that he told his family “We’re not going on vacation this year. I spent the money on this CD player. Don’t touch it.”
Don’t miss the thread where someone has listened to and rated 17 different pressings of Metallica’s “Ride The Lightning”.
No doubt there are trenchant opinions expressed on even more versions of death metal albums.
I guess you get it in English, but the product description in German is priceless. Must be a machine translation from Chinese waxing lyrical.
Unfortunately the cables are just out of stock and do not quote a price.
You all laugh, scoff, and openly express your derision, but my Litz Oxygen-Free wires are why my “Dark Side of the Moon” MFSL LP turned into a “Kind of Blue.”
I only listen to my limited edition master pressing of DSoTM on my Vibratone 250 turntable with my Nichisound amp and my very rare Mosiahacki speakers. Thank you Del Murdock!!
Cables? Coat hangers? Bah! You’ll never experience truly great sound until you paint the edges of your CDs with a green marker.
I used the marker not only on CDs, but on. all my vinyl, my 8-tracks, AND my iPod! It really does make a difference! Though coating the edge of an 8-track tape is a lot of work, it is worth it!