I'm Hugh, yclept inguz. ('ing is an old screen-name dating back to Moo;
it somehow implies process rather than destination, means not ends; ing,
inguz or ng is the 22nd rune of the elder futhark, signifying fertility
inter alia, requiring completion. There's also a meaning of "You're in
a rut, you've got to get out of it, out of it, out of it...", as the old
song goes).
I grew up tinkering with electronics and computers. For a few years I
worked in a hi-fi store (Jeffries), and got a taste of some decent
systems in the shop: Naim to Isobariks never sounded real, but LP12 -
Troika - Audio Research SP10 and monoblocs - Celestion 6000 was
magical. For a long time my own system was Linn Axis and Rega Planet,
to a homebrew ECC83 pre, heavily reconstructed Quad 405 (which is still
in the basement), and Monitor Audio 352 Gold. Which all made a
seriously loud, very warm and really quite detailed sound.
Now I'm looking for the disappearing sound system. Three components:
Transporter, heavyweight LM3886 amp, and Gallo Ref3 speakers. It
borders on the superb. There's lots of music on a PC with 2x400 RAID:
jazz, folk, electronica, reggae, dub, plus a good slice of
old-fashioned down-and-punky rock. I'm playing around a lot with DSP
on the PC, for EQ and room-correction and stereo-dipole crossfeed and
that sort of thing. I think it works; not a panacea for a bad setup,
but capable of pulling anything up by a notch or two.
When the system disappears I can feel the musicians in the room it was
recorded in. This seems surprisingly difficult; it happened most
recently with Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell "El Corazon". I've been spoiled
by listening to some really excellent systems recently
(Wadia/Pass/Hales, Wadia/300B OTL/Avalon, Wadia/Electrocompaniet/Gallo,
tubes to B&W 805s, SCD1 to SETs and RCA field-coil drivers in Tractrix
horns...) and hearing first-hand the effect of cables, damping and
other esoterica. I don't understand how some of these subtleties and
tweaks make a difference, but they do seem to. This audiophilia is a
slippery slope...
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inguz
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