Bill and I spent 5 hours in one of my most intense music sessions where the General DJed jazz and blues covering, among others, Doug Watkins, art Blakey, Hank Mobley, a fantastic copy of Duke Ellington's back to back LP, lightning Hopkins, muddy waters, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Donald Byrd etc
Bill and I spent 5 hours in one of my most intense music sessions where the General DJed jazz and blues covering, among others, Doug Watkins, art Blakey, Hank Mobley, a fantastic copy of Duke Ellington's back to back LP, lightning Hopkins, muddy waters, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Donald Byrd etc
Bill and I spent 5 hours in one of my most intense music sessions where the General DJed jazz and blues covering, among others, Doug Watkins, art Blakey, Hank Mobley, a fantastic copy of Duke Ellington's back to back LP, lightning Hopkins, muddy waters, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Donald Byrd etc
The General received the dual differential, full silver transformer and choke 10Y / 801 linestage yesterday thus I made a hasty beeline chez General for an audition.
I wasn’t quite prepared for what I heard today but came with high expectations having heard the incremental gain of the dual differential D3A over the regular D3A. I did expect a substantial improvement in noisefloor though since the whole chain is now dual differential from start to finish.
Succinctly put, I can say that the system is now operating in a different realm to before and then it was the best system I had heard to this point. Rather than regurgitating audiophile adjectives to describe what is going on, it is easier to express how I felt when listening. The system previously had resonated with me emotionally and was able to transport me somewhere else altogether but now literally every LP we heard moved me and at times sent me into a full blown trance - it is a very strange experience where you fully disengage from reality like that and wake from a mini dream.
I feel very happy for The General as this system hasn’t just appeared out of the ether but has been arduously crafted over years of painstaking auditioning. Furthermore, music is an enormous part of his life evidenced by the sheer breadth of genres we covered today and his vast knowledge of vinyl LPs. To think a system can do it all like that and induce the hypnotic effect regardless of genre and scale is remarkable.
The General doesn’t ever stand still and I am excited to hear the next steps including the dual differential quad chassis 46 driving a 46 monoblocks amplifiers and the holy grail 8020 phonostage.
Myself - I haven’t the financial wherewithal to play at this level but I will try to emulate his sound in a smaller and dimished scale.
This is a fascinating pursuit. It seems here we are very fortunate once again to be able share in the wildly absolute discovery of a very specific kind of high end extreme exploration, ultra-high sensitivity speakers driven with super low watt SET. It’s brilliant.
Even my small experience with working with Tune Animas (at just about 108db sensitivity) brought home all the great potentials and also challenging constraints of working within that potential high noise envelope especially with amplification. That time was a very enjoyable and big eye opener for me. So to be working in the strata with Pnoes and Thomas Meyer amplification is just exotically specialist audio turf to be playing on. Very exciting to read about this and also the great sessions just spinning discs and marvelling at the music and sonic results.
It’s also great that we also have members at the same time exploring the very top end of both digital and analogue pathways, artisan turntable and cart arm phono stages combinations, others treading the deepest darkest distant realms of cables, grounding systems, all kinds of panels setups, multi way horns and big box cones, fab room setups and amazing music sources and collections.
This place is a seriously marvellous high end learning ground thanks to all you guys blazing even the most wild trails. Please keep up the most excellent work all round.
This record that you gave me. It is a knock out. The sonic quality is right there in the same alley as IPI jazz tape. Pity Ron does not have a system.
You are a bad disease sir. And that Bonzo guy is spreading it. The only way to contain my association with you is to tell my wife how much these things cost.
You are a bad disease sir. And that Bonzo guy is spreading it. The only way to contain my association with you is to tell my wife how much these things cost.
Dear General,
You are a bad disease sir. And that Bonzo guy is spreading it. The only way to contain my association with you is to tell my wife how much these things cost.
You are a bad disease sir. And that Bonzo guy is spreading it. The only way to contain my association with you is to tell my wife how much these things cost.
I cant find my Analog Production reissue. So I cant compare them. But if I have heard the Analog Production pressing sounded this good I would have remembered for sure. His saxophone blast is dynamically stood out, crisp, very vivid, but not a tad thin like I normally hear from some tapes. Even with the Master Sig which is very sensitive to groove noise, I hear nothing in the background. Comparing with Ben Webster's Soulville Analog Production 45, Ben's Saxophone is very dynamic, a lot less crisp, not as vivid and colorful (like putting a slight drop of whte in the color.). Only when you compare it to the ERC you would realize a slight veil. Both are so quiet but one is quiet with more clarity and every tiny details in recording venue. Silly I compare apple to orange. But since I couldnt find my other apple,...orange then.
I cant find my Analog Production reissue. So I cant compare them. But if I have heard the Analog Production pressing sounded this good I would have remembered for sure. His saxophone blast is dynamically stood out, crisp, very vivid, but not a tad thin like I normally hear from some tapes. Even with the Master Sig which is very sensitive to groove noise, I hear nothing in the background. Comparing with Ben Webster's Soulville Analog Production 45, Ben's Saxophone is very dynamic, a lot less crisp, not as vivid and colorful (like putting a slight drop of whte in the color.). Only when you compare it to the ERC you would realize a slight veil. Both are so quiet but one is quiet with more clarity and every tiny details in recording venue. Silly I compare apple to orange. But since I couldnt find my other apple,...orange then.