Re: Johanna Martzy Dvorak DGG 10" LPE 17178 on ebay

On Mar 31, 7:23 am, wkasimer <wkasi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 31, 3:48 am, "mirkoslav" <miva...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

in last couple of years I visited some number of
high end audio shows, where equipment makers don't care about format. The
only thing they care is money and how to sell their gear.
although this huge majority of companies have
no interest whatsoever to push for analog sources, they still use it as a
primary source for showcasing their systems.

That's because by and large, the people who are into vinyl tend to be
people with vast amounts of cash to spend on analog rigs - because in
order to get decent sound from vinyl, you need plenty of cash.
Bill

Bill


Again,I say please define "lots of cash".One problem I found with this
list here,are the blind generalizations that are tossed around,by
people who don't seem to give the impression that they know what they
are talking about.

Not everyone who loves vinyl owns a five figure turntable,and a seven
figure system.

I would wager,many are like me,and own systems that cost under
$5000.00 to put together.No you are not going to get a system for
under five hundred,or two hundred bucks at Best Buy,like you can for
CDs,but there seems to be something that a lot of the anti-vinyl/anti-
audiophile snobs don't seem to get.Which is,ever since the
introduction of solid state technology,in the early 60s,the sound of
mass-market audio equipment,has gone steadily downhill.You get what
you pay for,or put some effort into to get it cheaper.Vinyl,and tubes
are not for the lazy.

We have had almost fifty years worth of music listeners,who have never
hears what the music they are listening to REALLY sounds like. I
realize it sounds trite,and cliched,but once you have heard a really
fine sounding system,there is no going back.It is the difference
between a ninety nine cent Banquet TV dinner,and a home cooked gourmet
meal.Once you find a mom and pop store selling locally raised meat,at
a price competitive to Wally World,you will never eat a Mickey D
burger again.It's just that simple.

Do you own an expensive home theatre,or big screen TV ?

Tubes amplification,is in my book,as or more important than vinyl.Is
there anyone here willing to argue that?

And if you cannot tell the difference between tubes,and solid
state,perhaps you have no business listening to classical music in the
first place.

Tubes and moving coils (Which can be bought reconditioned cheaply.)
will make a 50s/60s US pressed Angel sound as good as an ASD.Which
gets us into the area of "affordable comparisons."Especially on some
of your more sought after violin records.People go crazy over the
Giocanda de Vitos on the first pressing British
HMVs.Prices,aside,demand is such,that you really don't stand a chance
to get them.This is not the case,yet,with the US RCA/HMVs of the
50s,or the Dutch HMVs,of the early 60s.Which can still be found for
cheap.In spite of the fact they are rarer pressings.This is not the
case,with someone like Ida Handel.The Bluebirds are nearly as pricey
as the HMVs

Oh,and as for the Martzy Dvorak,I had to finally give in and get on on
eBay.I have almost all of the EMIs on British-pressed Angels,bought at
thrift stores,but I was never able to get the DDGs.I did have to
"spend" a little over a hundred bucks on it,but you can also say,I
didn't
spend any more than a dollar,plus postage,as I sold a dollar flea
market Lp to somebody else for a little more than what I paid for the
Martzy.Paypal in Paypal out,and I never touch the bank account.

Also,the Martzy will continue to appreciate in price,as will the mint
minus original pressing of the first Os Mutantes I have my eye on,for
$145.00.

I can't say that about most CDs,but I can say that about reel
tapes,another "obsolete" format.

Inneresting innit?

Roger

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