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RE: schematics

Posted by njjohn on February 10, 2020 at 17:17:11:
Hi, Life is good, blessed as they say.

I'm not really an audiophile anymore, if I ever was considered one. Basically because I'm not discriminating different things like I did in the past, so that skill is basically gone, lol.

But I'm thankful for having been involved in it, because I'm still enjoying music through my John Hogan SET amps. But I'm not discriminating much between the different configurations like I did in the past.

But I do have some wonderful memories:

John Hogan was fairly eccentric who became so consumed with building amps to my delight. He was really talented in any of the technical domains that he had been involved in.

The best speakers I ever heard were a pair of Western Electrics owned by a member of this forum. He paired them with a Jeff Korneff 45 amp and the vocalists sounded like they were in the room.

There were two types of Webster opts, one a bit better than the other. What attracted me was that the sound was the closest to the music I heard in the best NYC jazz clubs like Fat Tuesdays and Blue Note.

Between the vintage webster opts and the vintage WE speakers, I thought of the idea that there is lost knowledge in audio. Somethings might be lost in the constant refinement of audio stuff.

The aural matrix is real and I heard something beyond that which I called the audio terrain, if I remember correctly, but I was never able to get there again after I changed the equipment in that small room. The speakers were ar's and the amp was John's first 300b (tubes were more dimensional too), which I still have and the cd player had some dimensionality to it. Don't remember if I was stoned or not, lol

Anyway I enjoyed this forum but sometimes looking at it nowadays, it seems so involved in the technical. But thanks for this invitation.