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In Reply to: RE: Roger Skoff Wonders About The Music posted by Luminator on November 26, 2014 at 10:34:02
>Former XLO owner Roger Skoff (see link below) argues that we talk about
>audio products, but not the music.
Something that not many are aware of is that with Stereophile reviewers,
the value of their recorded music collections exceeds that of their audio
systems.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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"Something that not many are aware of is that with Stereophile reviewers, the value of their recorded music collections exceeds that of their audio systems."
Good call! The ratio between cost of library vs. cost of system is a good metric for distinguishing between music lovers and audiophiles.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
There was a time where I had a Bell tape deck, a PAS-2, a Citation II and a pair of KLH-6's. This exhausted all my funds, just enough left to purchase a single 4 track prerecorded tape by Ernest Ansermet and the London Philharmonic. When I didn't feel like listening to Petrushka I could listen to The Rite of Spring, ... Fortunately, this situation only lasted a few months.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
No tuner?
I had two tuners, actually. An EICO and a Citation III. This was before stereo broadcasts. I recorded some stereo broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra live over the air, made off of WGBH and WCRB. Mono FM reception worked pretty well, even 50 miles out. FM stereo never did work so well, even later when I had a Marantz 10B and was only 8 miles direct line of sight from the WGBH tower. The basic problem with FM stereo is that noise immunity was traded for bandwidth. But even mono FM was not transparent to live microphone feeds and even when the monitoring antenna was in close proximity to the transmitter.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Interesting. Well my dad bought 7.5 ips tapes but also recorded a ton of AM and FM. New York had some amazing stations in the 60s. I actually don't remember what tuner he had. He was not big into LPs and had only a small collection. He hated the surface noise and warping.
I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, about half-way between Phila and New York. Only OK FM reception, but I never had the benefit of an outside antenna. I went to high school in southern New Hampshire, about 50 miles from Boston. This is when I recorded some BSO broadcast stereo off of two FM stations.Stereo LPs were hopeless in the 1960's with any equipment that I could afford. It wasn't until laser cut styli came out that I considered the distortion acceptable. Vacuum hold down on my SOTA turntable solved the warp problem and a VPI record cleaning machine solved the surface noise problem.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 12/17/14
So true Tony!
Excellent point JA!
I had just burned to DVD-A and DVD-V some wav files, using Cirlinca Solo, I had collected form Linn and BlueCoast Music and even listening to them in my lowly Yamaha S1800 for my DVD-As and my Sony DVP-NS 755, both of which are SACD players as well, those files sounded so wonderful that I feel sorry for people who are satisfied with MP3s, even 320s. The sound of Fiona Joy's piano is so wonderful it is hard to listen to something less.By the time we all listen to our commercial recordings that started out at 2448 in ProTools, they are nothing like what I am hearing. Now I have to search out great recordings that started out at least at 2496 or some great vinyl reissues with improved mastering. With the cost of those I wait for a review before jumping in. It is now not only about the music, but about the quality of it.
Jim Tavegia
Edits: 12/03/14
Thanks! for sharing Jim.
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