Oh Dear, I think I am morphing into Jerry!

**jandl100** · 13-09-2019, 06:20

.... yes, and some people still use those really old fashioned black vinyl discs for listening to music.
How quaint.

**walpurgis** · 13-09-2019, 06:34

Originally Posted by jandl100

.... yes, and some people still use those really old fashioned black vinyl discs for listening to music.
How quaint.

Yes. Apparently they work by dragging a rock along a rough furrow, how primitive. Thank goodness for modern digital!

**Audio Al** · 13-09-2019, 07:05

Don't make me laugh

, next thing you will be telling me is that vinyl is about to out sell CD 's

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...h-riaa-880959/

**Macca** · 13-09-2019, 07:09

Originally Posted by Audio Al

Don't make me laugh

, next thing you will be telling me is that vinyl is about to out sell CD 's

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...h-riaa-880959/

8.6 million units compared to 18.6 million for cd so not anytime soon I don't think. The really sad thing is that streaming will bury them both eventually.

**Pharos** · 13-09-2019, 08:33

Interesting to hear views on Tannoys, they and the 57s were really the heritage studio monitors in the 60s and into the 70s.

In about '71 I bought a pair of Tannoy Gold Lancaster 15s, and the seller was changing because he said they were colored,
and that view was also expressed by fellow engineers at work.

In about '85, I bought a pair of ESS AMT 1aMs, and rebuilt them, they were so different and had a clarity which blew all of my friends away, this partly because the tweeter was high whereas the Tannoys were quite low down. I remember an R3 sax avant guard solo was really astounding also, as was an LBC wine ad's cork pull from a bottle. I was round a corner cleaning my teeth, and it was so real that it actually gave me heart palpitations.

The Tannoy graphs showed mid range colorations, a sort of squawkiness, but never the less they were very communicative and gave me years of pleasure, but I was unimpressed with the very big ones at a more recent 90s Hi-Fi show, sounded like steam trains to me.

My friend with whom I exchanged a Gold for one of his later HPDs on a swap loan, Berkleys I think, thinks that we have moved on a lot, and that they are now outdated.

Underlying all this is that IMO, what we think of as burning/bedding in, is actually our brains habituating to a new representation of sound, and in order to interpret and extract as much information as possible. Realistically, no system is anything like reality, and we do 'software processing' to learn how to read it, and this takes time and learning.

**RMutt** · 13-09-2019, 08:57

Hello Dennis. I may have missed this somewhere, but do you mind me asking what speakers you use now?

**scotty38** · 13-09-2019, 09:45

Great speakers congratulations!

Can I ask about the elephant in the room, or rather the sofa? Does that stay there and does it have any impact?

**Pharos** · 13-09-2019, 11:20

Yes Andrew, having recently won a legal case against BT, I indulged and bought a pair of 3rd hand ADAM Tensor Beta actives, travelling to Berlin to get them, and it costing over £1k to do so.

I have been so impressed, that I was recently seriously considering upgrading to the Alphas, but it seemed an obscenity, and they probably would be too big for my room. The MTM configuration would have resulted in the mids and tweeters being exactly halfway between the floor and ceiling, and so reflections would I think have been a concern.

**RMutt** · 13-09-2019, 12:11

Thanks Dennis.

**jandl100** · 13-09-2019, 12:27

I've heard some big active Adam monitors at shows, absolutely superb speakers!
Totally neutral, very transparent, and room-explodingly dynamic!

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