terraplane8bob
Responses from terraplane8bob
| What is your vinyl commitment? For some unknown reason, many of my friends believed the hype about how vinyl was for the Dodos and everyone should embrace digital. To my good fortune, several of them approached me to see if I would offer a good home for their vinyl collections... | |
| Open Reel Curious After retiring from my job as a symphony musician and embarking on a new one as a recording engineer I bought two high end Reel2Reel tape decks manufactured by AEG Telefunken, an M20 and an M21. These were the decks used by German radio for broad... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? Well ---- I guess the word "concert" has been appropriated for another use these days. My first concert [in the classic sense] was to see "The First Piano Quartet" at The Philadelphia Academy of Music when I was about 10 years old. I still have... | |
| Sound right before song begins on vinyl, what is it? Truth is that that "ghost" signal that is heard on some vinyl recordings can be easily removed during the editing process both in an analogue way [ splice a section of clean tape at that point ] or a digital way [ simply find the annoying section ... | |
| Do most people prefer tight bass or non tight bass? The first consideration must be : What is the SOURCE of the bass ? Bass is not generic --- it is specific. Is the source instrument bowed, plucked, blown or struck to produce the bass in question ? The "leading edge" of the sound predicates the... | |
| Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album? Let's not forget The Dave Pell Octet ! I know that the sound of an octet might not be everyone's "Cup O' Tea" but Dave had a handle on a totally unique sound. My absolute favorite of his was his arrangement of "Mountain Greenery". Check it out ... | |
| Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)? I think that it's wonderful that so many people embrace streaming and the endless catalogue of available music online. I suspect that if that had been the case when I was becoming an audiophile, I might have embraced it myself ---- but it wasn't ... | |
| Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? To "guscreek", my compliments to your Farnsworth ancestor for the fine radios and phonographs that bear the Farnsworth name. Having had a career as a professional musician, I still hear something every day on Baltimore's WBJC [91.5] that I've n... | |
| The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse!! I blame the proliferation of affordable electronic gear that made it possible for a bunch of "No Talent Bums" to be able to put their "product" into the mainstream ! People gravitate towards whatever is convenient but not necessarily valuable. A... | |
| Who is Roon? It might be a good exercise for those who contemplate streamlining their listening experience by subscribing to a "streaming" entity to consider this, instead.. If you are one of the many who relish the process of cueing up a vinyl recording, or ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers My-O-My ! I never expected to kick up so much "dust" with my re-telling of the story of when my audio dealer dusted his turntable dust cover and created enough magnetism to alter the stylus force ! Perhaps we can end it all simply by turning our... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers I haven't seen it addressed so far in this discussion so I'll relate an experience I had back in the late 60s / early 70s when visiting my favorite audio emporium. The owner kept a very orderly showroom and a regular dusting of the display compon... | |
| There Is Nothing Like the Real Thing - Our State of the Art 25 years as a symphony musician and 25 years as a recording engineer settled my mind as to realistic sound. Acoustic instruments playing in an acoustical environment is about as real as it gets and attempts to replicate it are exactly that -------... | |
| Can anyone tell me when XLR connections were first used on stereo equipment. (what years)? I have a Burmester 838 phono preamp and an 868 preamp/DA convertor and two 878 amps, all of which have XLR connections. Burmester used a system to identify his components : 838 [ August of 1983 ] 868 [August of 1986 ] 878 [August of 1987]. Year f... | |
| Holy Holostages!! Has anyone noticed that "Holostages" is just two letters away from being "Hostages" ? |