[dba-Tech] OT: A big day

Hi Stuart

Oh that is sad, you have my sympathy, though the real quality of music is
not a question of a frequency range. 
Hearing loss comes to most of us, mine is degraded a little as well but not
so much that I feel it. I hope it will settle at that level. The few times I
have used fire arms, ear protecting was mandatory.

/gustav


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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Stuart McLachlan
Sendt: 19. februar 2013 23:08
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day

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