Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 19 12:24:53 CST 2013
Congratulations. There is nothing like a great sound system...something that those who only listening to MP3s and the like will never truly understand. It also seems you have the right music, with the right media to be able really appreciate such a nice system. :-) Enjoy Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:47 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day Hi all More than 30 years ago when in the audio business, two of our clients - audio-visual producers - asked for new top-notch monitor speakers for their studios. We toured several suppliers listening to the well-known brands, quite expensive, and then we stopped by at Technics as they had gained much attention due to a major lift in quality. That settled it. I still recall how we listened carefully to our selection of "difficult" music but our real test was the reproduction of high-quality recorded human voice which is far more difficult to reproduce than most are aware of. There was no doubt - the SB-7000 speakers with the phase-correcting speaker alignment were convincing and the price couldn't be matched: http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SB-7000.html At that time I neither had the money nor the space for such speakers but ever since I've dreamed of obtaining a set of these. By pure accident, Saturday I browsed a local second-hand site, and there they were, right in front of me on the screen, at a bargain price - and I have the room. Through the years I have struggled with some compact wife-friendly speakers - very good of course, but still - nothing beats a 15" high-quality speaker (except an 18" but they are so rare). Now, this set could really be anything - burned out units or misbehaved in many ways. So I had to go and listen: I brought some music that can bring down most systems and reveal any sort of misbehaviour: Chick Corea, My Spanish Heart, and Miles Davis, Tutu, on CD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Spanish_Heart It was like coming home! They reproduced perfectly and exactly like I had imagined with the transparent and completely neutral sound I remembered. They've two owners only, and no disco youngster had succeeded destroying them. So, today I picked them up and can hardly wait to get home and power them up. Should this day come? From time to time I thought No and resigned ... but today: Yes. Through the years I've kept (some sort of intuition or instinct?) this bright Sony amplifier to power them: http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-N86B.html Though I have quite decent equipment to feed this, I might be looking for the matching preamp: http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-E88B.html But that's another story. /gustav _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com