And you would be wrong. Both my systems produce the wall of sound when intended and have the soundstage depth I want when that is intended.It was mainly this little beauty i was referring to. Maybe your equipment is just really bad at reproducing depth and will pass the test with flying colors !By the way "a sixties mono copy" refers to a digitally converted file, you don't list a record player among your equipment ?
Thanks, that's reassuring. I listened to someone's vinyl playback on Youtube and that was pretty messy, with too much surface noise for me to identify tape hiss, and the stereo cartidge they were using was putting out a noticeably different signal on the left side than the right.
I agree, but back in the day my father used a mono recording of a steam locomotive to test realism (his DIY system was mono). A neighbor apparently found it quite convincing when he ran out of his bathroom to avoid the collision. True story.
No, I understood your post. I have a few issues with it. Even someone as out of touch as the late Art Dudley (Stereophile. TAS, Listener) and that is saying something knew this. Most high-end audio equipment won’t reproduce the sound of a banjo properly. One set of my refence recordings is therefore various banjos and has been for decades. Herb Reichert (currently Stereophile) who may be even more out of touch has written most high-end audio can’t reproduce Cajun saw fiddling properly. Something I’ve known for decades since I love Cajun music. My personal recordings of harmonicas are similarly hard on high-end audio. Aren’t you just regurgitating the same old stuff?
Was this before the advent of LSD?
I’m sorry I have no idea what you are trying to say. your reply makes no sense. I have no idea what banjo’s, harmonicas, Cajun music and old out of touch people have to do with me or my comments.
One of the problems of WBF lately, is the sudden influx of people and their opinions that are far from what i would call audiophile. It has become a place where some people come to socialize, talk about dance and art, rarely in the even most far fetched relation to audio. Do it in the the dedicated sub categories not in every thread, please !
Hey, this was a quiet, respectable suburb! OK? Another neighbor hung a gutted bear from a chain wrapped around a big tree in his front yard. So, a train running through a house was probably seen as the second strangest thing.
One of the problems of WBF lately, is the sudden influx of people and their opinions that are far from what i would call audiophile. It has become a place where some people come to socialize, talk about dance and art, rarely in the even most far fetched relation to audio. Do it in the the dedicated sub categories not in every thread, please !
Most stuff, back in the day, was recorded on tape… and less was recorded direct to digital
I think that the poorly recorded Violent Femmes album was “The blind leading the naked”…We have the blind leading the deaf
I was still a kid when CDs came out. I recall some CDs, like Mercury Living Presence reissues having very noticeable tape hiss from the original master tapes that I could hear a lot easier than I can hear today on those same recordings. That might be a false memory. Or perhaps, I was going out of my way to listen for it because digital's big selling point was no tape hiss. Come to think of it, I know for sure that I had a Phillips classics CD (still have it) that I didn't realize for quite some time was actually from analog master tapes from the 1970s, so obviously I wasn't picking up on all the tape hiss. I only bought DDD back then, at the very start of the CD era, but somehow goofed up and bought that one, never noticing the difference. By the time I was buying Mercury reissues I wasn't the least concerned about it.
I always associate tube traps with my friend Mike, and maybe he got them later… but it seemed like the 80s or 90s.
Your signature block says, “Acoustic Sciences Corporation - maker of ASC TubeTraps”
Ive used them since back in the 80's , not sure exactly what year however I know for sure I had them in my store in 1993 when I moved to Florida and have used them ever since. I have corner traps and snap traps in my listening room today. I am a very firm believer in the room is an integral part of the system and in listening.
