Disgust myself sometimes with my hifi audio wanker addiction.
When The Sound goes wrong, or I'm deprived of my fix, it scrambles my brain like a goddamn drug leaving me miserable and disoriented.
Case in point, last week when my beloved Denon DL110 cartridge finally ran out of diamond.
Its 2,000 hour lifetime had come to a motherfucking end.
Suddenly the world had gone dark and silent. The birdies had stopped singing. As had the Sonab's Peerless tweeters.
R.I.P.
Iron Horse.
Iron Will.
Jumped onto amazon and fuck me but the DL110 price is no longer $130. They now start at $200 yen. For a very finite 2,000-hour life span. Fuck that, I thought. I can't justify that outlay. I'm no audiophile prick, I can live without the little motherfucker. So read around and decided on a $30 yen audio technica cart. Good reviews, this'll do me.
Installed it and it sounded like shit.
Of course, must be the break-in period. A few hours of play and, by some miracle of sound in motion, the sounds changes almost completely. From borderline sibillance to a smooth motherfucker. How, god only knows. Moving coil copper wires parsing with the semiotic universe or such shit.
Then, just one day into the break-in period and I'm like a miserable fucking myopic drug addict being deprived of MY needle for 10 fucking seconds.
Back on the internet i go, my life seemingly falling apart at the seams, my brain a tearful dark anechoic mess, and within seconds i'd splurged the 20,000 yen on the precious DL 110.
Fix ACQUIRED.
The "break-in period" can go get fucked.
We are Back in Business, drug addiction style.
Actually, after the Audio Technica break-in period (the clouds parted after aboot 3 days to reveal a munty enough sound) the Audio Technica, sounded fine enough... I thought I was in the clear..... but then I put the Supremes LP on.... you know the one. Japanese mastering + Spector's Wall of Sound, the one that sounds FUCKING AWESOME through the Denon.
NO.
The Audio Technica couldnt do it.
It's a 6 out of 10.
Need my 10 back.
Should be here in a few days from amazon dot crackho