Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 08:46:32 CST 2013
Congratulations! I'm jealous. So nice to have a system that you can play at any volume level and not need to wonder about distortion or what is being left out due to sampling constraints etc. I recently bought a new receiver which has networking built in and so could listen to the music on my PC's. I hadn't bought in to the MP3s are noticeably degraded idea and so thought all would be well and good as I had enjoyed these same tunes via my iPOD and from memory stick in my vehicle without noticing significant loss of quality. When I listened to them on the Big System though I certainly noticed! So I've since reconverted all my CD's to WAV and am in the process of doing them again another time using iTUNES Lossless format for playing via iTUNES Airplay which I like for it's random play capability and have been enjoying the music as it was intended to be heard again. Enjoy your new speakers! GK On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> 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 -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com