STeVe the multi-millionaire and "Destroyer of Carts"
Apr 10, 2018 6:28:19 GMT
Post by Wanklein on Apr 10, 2018 6:28:19 GMT
We've all heard Hoofer brag about being a millionaire (bucko) but is this the first instance of him stating he is a multi-millionaire?
Hubert jan said:
Oke, between 15 and 50 dollar.
Dont get me wrong, I am a multi millionaire but I use my ears when buying a cart or replacement needle and not my wallet.
Just disassemble a cheap cart and a very expensive one, observe the differences.
Some esoteric features not necessary for normal records purchased at the corner record shop.
Why pay for a scientific elaborate cart if it is useless.
Oke, between 15 and 50 dollar.
Dont get me wrong, I am a multi millionaire but I use my ears when buying a cart or replacement needle and not my wallet.
Just disassemble a cheap cart and a very expensive one, observe the differences.
Some esoteric features not necessary for normal records purchased at the corner record shop.
Why pay for a scientific elaborate cart if it is useless.
STeVe replied:
What usually happens here is that in a month, at the Stereo Show, someone will come up to me and state: "Steve, I read you said...." And relate what is in the above post. Somehow everything becomes a quote from me. My name on the site, and I'm used to it, but still...
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I cannot let the above quote go. I too am a multi-millionaire and I use my ears when listening to any cart and I don't know how wrong you can be. I've never spent more than $900.00 on a cart, not because I can't afford it, but simply because I am a turntable cartridge butterfingers and have a nickname "The Destroyer Of Carts."
I do, however, receive all types of cartridges, cheap and expensive in the mail, both as gifts and for review and I can tell you that as you go up the cart chain, the rewards are tremendous; lively, vivid, convincing musical reproduction from humble phonograph records that we (and especially I) never thought possible until I had a world-class system to compare on. I'm truly humbled and astonished as to what was heretofore hidden in the grooves of my many vinyl records going back to childhood. I can never go back now after experiencing this musical nirvana so if my free goodies go away, I'm spending a bunch of money on my next personal cart, butterfingers or not.
"Esoteric features not necessary for 'normal' records purchased at the corner record shop" is EXACTLY the reason to get a wonderful cart, turntable and playback system. To unlock the wonder that can be (sometimes by accident) captured in the grooves of our records.
To pretend this is not so, is just to deny oneself something wonderful, sort of a penance or punishment. If you have the money and are an Audiophile, upgrading your cartridge and/or phono stage is one of the biggest upgrades you can ever do to extract the most from a record groove.
Yes, I could be happy with my Shure V15 and live a nice life. But to be able to hear something as intense and luscious as a well recorded album from 60 years ago (as we did last night) with an amazing needle that reveals magic that even the original engineers and producers didn't know was there is quite fulfilling, which I guess is why I'm bothering to type any of this. (The Grado Labs Aeon cartridge is what we heard last night.)
Sometimes upgrading is truly worth it.
What usually happens here is that in a month, at the Stereo Show, someone will come up to me and state: "Steve, I read you said...." And relate what is in the above post. Somehow everything becomes a quote from me. My name on the site, and I'm used to it, but still...
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I cannot let the above quote go. I too am a multi-millionaire and I use my ears when listening to any cart and I don't know how wrong you can be. I've never spent more than $900.00 on a cart, not because I can't afford it, but simply because I am a turntable cartridge butterfingers and have a nickname "The Destroyer Of Carts."
I do, however, receive all types of cartridges, cheap and expensive in the mail, both as gifts and for review and I can tell you that as you go up the cart chain, the rewards are tremendous; lively, vivid, convincing musical reproduction from humble phonograph records that we (and especially I) never thought possible until I had a world-class system to compare on. I'm truly humbled and astonished as to what was heretofore hidden in the grooves of my many vinyl records going back to childhood. I can never go back now after experiencing this musical nirvana so if my free goodies go away, I'm spending a bunch of money on my next personal cart, butterfingers or not.
"Esoteric features not necessary for 'normal' records purchased at the corner record shop" is EXACTLY the reason to get a wonderful cart, turntable and playback system. To unlock the wonder that can be (sometimes by accident) captured in the grooves of our records.
To pretend this is not so, is just to deny oneself something wonderful, sort of a penance or punishment. If you have the money and are an Audiophile, upgrading your cartridge and/or phono stage is one of the biggest upgrades you can ever do to extract the most from a record groove.
Yes, I could be happy with my Shure V15 and live a nice life. But to be able to hear something as intense and luscious as a well recorded album from 60 years ago (as we did last night) with an amazing needle that reveals magic that even the original engineers and producers didn't know was there is quite fulfilling, which I guess is why I'm bothering to type any of this. (The Grado Labs Aeon cartridge is what we heard last night.)
Sometimes upgrading is truly worth it.