Ron’s New System

[andromedaaudio]

I finally got to hear a set and they are excellent.

Yes. What this means is you may well have to play LPs to get the most dynamic version of the recording.


A friend of mine (Steve Tibbetts) has been on the ECM label since the 1980s. I don't think I know what the 'ECM' sound is. Steve does his recordings himself.

One of my best tapes is ECM , not the most quit tape i have but very natural dynamic.

 

[microstrip]

I finally got to hear a set and they are excellent.

There is a famous sentence of Peter Walker on electrostatics - something like it is not difficult to make a good sounding one, very hard to make one the is reliable and lasts for long. I went through several electrostatics that had a short life and ended in the scrap. Just to say we need more information.

Yes. What this means is you may well have to play LPs to get the most dynamic version of the recording.

As far as I have read it applies only to few modern recordings. Surely it can be relevant for some audiophiles, not for me.

A friend of mine (Steve Tibbetts) has been on the ECM label since the 1980s. I don't think I know what the 'ECM' sound is. Steve does his recordings himself.

I have some of his albums - they are in the lot of LPs I decided to keep and will go on listening in vinyl.

 

[Atmasphere]

There is a famous sentence of Peter Walker on electrostatics - something like it is not difficult to make a good sounding one, very hard to make one the is reliable and lasts for long. I went through several electrostatics that had a short life and ended in the scrap. Just to say we need more information.

Yes!

As far as I have read it applies only to few modern recordings. Surely it can be relevant for some audiophiles, not for me.

If you play recordings from 1958 to well into the 1980s, one thing that happens is degradation of the master tape. For this reason a lot of the digital remasterings show a loss of the vivacious qualities of the original (and of course storage of the master is critical, especially when the 'high output' formulations on polyester showed up, which tend to shed with moisture absorption). In some cases though there is less processing. I've found its a case by case basis as to which is actually better, and there are a good number of recordings of which if you want to hear what they really are about, you have to get an original LP pressing.

 

[morricab]

There is a famous sentence of Peter Walker on electrostatics - something like it is not difficult to make a good sounding one, very hard to make one the is reliable and lasts for long. I went through several electrostatics that had a short life and ended in the scrap. Just to say we need more information.



As far as I have read it applies only to few modern recordings. Surely it can be relevant for some audiophiles, not for me.



I have some of his albums - they are in the lot of LPs I decided to keep and will go on listening in vinyl.

That’s because Peter Walker didn’t understand how to make stators that don’t arc. Acoustats don’t arc and thousands of them are still going strong on original panels for 50 years.