No more enablement please... Bob S. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > OMG!... sorry for, the OT... > > I know my observations, forthcoming, are not scientific and subjective > to the extreme... BUT... > > Like many, I got a CD player in the mid '80's and never looked back. > The apparent 0 background noise, no clicking, pops, dust, made me love > CD's. > > My son told me two months ago that he was interested in vinyl records. > That's all it took to make me start looking around at vintage gear. > I've kind of stagnated on a mid 90's Technics all-purpose AV receiver, > quite well spec'd and all, with either Bose Acoustimass speakers > and/or whatever is installed in the ceiling of our home. > > I started out planning on giving him my early '80's Kenwood > 30W/channel system, amp, tuner, EQ, and getting a mint Technics TT and > a better than average cartridge. He would choose the loudspeakers. > > Well I went a small bit crazy. He also was interested in > reel-to-reel, something I always wanted, but I opted for cassette back > in earlier years for $ reason and because I could make a tape and play > it in the car. So I bought him a mint TEAC 3340S 4-track. My Kenwood > system, quite nice, but all I could afford at 21 yrs. old, does not > accomodate the necessary tape inputs/outputs, dubbing, etc., and has > no speaker A/B for a possible sub-woofer. So onto look at more amps. > > I bought him a nice used Denon 50W/channel receiver & perfect Pioneer > CD changer for $150. Then I saw a Kenwood KA-3500 40W/channel > integrated amp and got it for $31. I subsequently saw a 65W/channel > late '70's Pioneer integrated amp & tuner in mint condition with the > silver fronts, wood sides, Blue Fluoro meters, and analog tuning for > $260 + shipping. He liked it the best out of the bunch, and we got it. > > He had picked out some PSB (Canadian-made) speakers which are quite > good (also my pick of the affordable ones we demo'd) and which are due > to arrive. Meanwhile I found a pair of mid '80's B&W English-made > speakers for $100 and bought them undemo'd on a whim. > > I've sat here most of the day listening to some vintage LP'S (OK, 99% > Beatles with a little Nat King Cole, Chicago, Heart, Macca, and > classical thrown in). This is with a $31 amp, a vintage turntable and > a cheap Audio-Technica cartridge, and a 25 year old pair of speakers. > > I may never buy another CD again. The amount of musical detail I can > hear and the dynamics of the music (can't describe it any better) are > just superb. It sounds like real music and real voices. > > Likely the Pioneer turntable/cartridge and JBL tower speakers I could > afford when I was much younger were not as good as what I'm listening > to at the moment. Just the musicality of what I'm hearing on 20-30 > year old gear and on equally old vinyl LP's is astounding (I purchased > 214, played only once LP's + a 50w/ch Technics receiver, cassette > deck, a 2nd pretty good TT, and speakers (worthless), for $250). It > was worth 2x-3x more than that for the LP's alone. What I'm hearing > is really better than what I hear on CD or iPod. > > Simply amazed... not over-imbibed, just astounded. I got my hearing back. > > In between all that I found a '80's Pioneer 100W/channel amp, tuner, > EQ, and timer for $95 in like new condition, which I got solely for > the EQ & timer. > > (I'm not going to tell you this led to me getting a mint Denon amp & > mint B&W speakers for myself... now looking for the right TT & tuner). > > It's not bad, living vicariously through your children. > > Tom > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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