Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Feb 19 15:33:04 CST 2013
Congratulations, Gustav! Have you got home? I suppose - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd, - "Child in Time" by Deep Purple and - "July Morning" by Uriah Heep should also sound great on your vintage acoustic system. I wish I were there! :) -- Shamil Вторник, 19 февраля 2013, 18:47 +01:00 от "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>: >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 > >