Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Feb 19 16:07:54 CST 2013
Once upon a time I would have been very envious of you, but my gunner'ear* means that I can no longer appreciate the nuances of high quality audio :-( -- Stuart * loss of high range hearing in particular as the result of too many years of gunfire with inadequate or no ear protection. On 19 Feb 2013 at 18:47, Gustav Brock wrote: > 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 >