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In Reply to: RE: Recorded-Music Listening Room for Liberal-Arts College: Speaker Choices posted by John Marks on October 04, 2007 at 15:41:42
this is the funniest thing i've ever read in the general asylum. Is this really happening, or a concept for a new savage steve holland film? Life really does imitate art.
It's a real project.
Info on the attached web link, including architect's renderings.
JM
"elegant cherry paneled listening room with state-of-the-art audio and video equipment (for viewing musical performances, including operas) the Ralston Listening Library promises to be the finest facility of its kind at any college in America"
... I am amazed that you think your suggestion does justice to this. SOTA audio is not 2ch neither is vinyl and it has not been that for a long while. The project as expoused in your original post is the equivalent of showcasing vintage Buggatti, some may swear by it, love it or whatever, but SOTA it a'int. If you are truly interested in preserving this music for prosterity as opposed to showing some vintage playback equipment, I suggest archiving the music to hard disk and acquiring suitable equipment to access it.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
I'm not amazed that you think it doesn't. ;-)
Vinyl, at the top of its game, along with tape at the top of its game, trump digital sound reproduction. While I market some very fine digital playback gear, it's always a relief to me, as well as countless show attendees when we fire up the vinyl. I've just gotten into R-R tape for the first time in about 50 years, (curse you, Doc B! ;-), and I'm currently buying about 10 classical tapes for every 5 LP's for every 2-3 CD's. The tape library has a lot of catching up to do, of course. I'm also having a grand time recording live classical music on tape which stomps the A-D I can get my hands on (for the moment. Sadly, my Otari 5050 does things to my back that a laptop will never do.)
I've been saying for years that I'll take 2 channels of excellence over 5+1 channels of mediocrity any day, and have heard nothing to make me stop saying it yet. Perhaps something lurking in Denver will change my mind this week, but I doubt it.
I can't be specific for fear of trying the Bored's patience, but you are under no such constraints. For chuckles, what, specifically, would you include in this system? (Please choose things where you are not the only perrson has ever heard - that is to say, ship your Franken-AR's. ;-)
Keep your ears and your mind open.
It is one thing to love a fully restored 1961 D-Type jaguar and use it as sole means of transport prefering it above all else, it is quite another thing to claim it is SOTA, Same applies to anyone buying a brand new Patek Phillipe mechanical watch today. However, it seems that many audiophile fail to appreciate this important distinction between SOTA and straight preferences. Vinyl is not SOTA audio reproduction in 2007 and it has not been for a long while. Today, that title belongs MCH audio playback and 5+1 channels of excellence will surpass 2ch of excellence every time, it is capable of doing much more. Whilst I can understand anyone's preference for 2ch vinyl, installing it in a public (student) library under the guise of a SOTA audio playback system is plain crazy. If the goal of the sponsors of this project is to make this music available to a wider audience not just the LPs, then the choice of playback equipment should be reconsidered, we are building a music library here not a museum.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
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