[dba-Tech] OT: A big day

Hi Tina

So true, but quite often wife will be a prohibiting factor. My lovely Rita,
however, like to see me as a happy man, so no persuading was needed ...
well, if only she could get a new sofa. A low price to pay, so: Deal!

/gustav 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Tina Norris
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Sendt: 19. februar 2013 23:12
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day

Bravo Gustav.  How wonderful to have top grade sound system!
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787

On 2/19/2013 12:47 PM, 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