Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Feb 20 06:48:50 CST 2013
Hi Shamil Oh yes! I nearly had forgotten Uriah Heep. That would be on vinyl. I have a rack of boxes with my old vinyl, about 500 pieces, which I have refrained to listen to for years. They will get a new life now, though I'm not a vinyl fanatic. Actually, I prefer the CD with no cracks and clicks and their double playing time. /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil Sendt: 19. februar 2013 22:33 Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day 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 > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com