[dba-Tech] OT: A big day

Hi Gary

To me the distribution is an upcoming project to which no obvious solution
exists. For recording I've used the WMA format in its lossless setting and
that works quite well but consumes an awful lot of disk space. Ripping all
my CDs, not to say my LPs, would be quite expensive. So it is not in the
near future.

/gustav

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gary Kjos
Sendt: 20. februar 2013 15:47
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: A big day

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