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In Reply to: RE: Roger Skoff Wonders About The Music posted by Tony Lauck on December 06, 2014 at 17:33:23
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
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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
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