or the Saturday night fever.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
A Tragedy though.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
This is Where I Came In
Regards,
Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
So back then you weren't living in Liverpool? Fair enough, but you see this is where you and I are different, perhaps because I've always been used to seeking out things that I like, but which can be difficult to find, or not readily available in my local area.
Growing up in the UK, during the 60s and 70s [even 80s] in an Italian family, and seeking to source authentic ingredients to cook Italian food properly, forced you into that mentality. Therefore, I (and or my parents) regularly travelled into Glasgow city centre, which was a similar distance from our village on the south side, that Manchester was from you, in order to get the foodstuffs we needed from Italian delicatessens, as there was ZERO chance of finding it locally.
And for me, it was a case of adopting the same mentality, back in the day, when buying hi-fi or vinyl. 30 or 40 mins in a bus or train, therefore, to get what I wanted, would've been nothing and all part of the fun!
The fact is, if I wanted a new turntable or some records, I'd have to get off my backside and go to where they were sold, so my mates and I [this was during the 80s] would regularly get the bus or train and travel into town, to the visit record stores and hi-fi shops we liked, and that mentality followed through into the mid-90s and beyond, when I had my own car and lived with Del in our first house in Crookston, which was around 30 mins from the centre of Glasgow.
The point I'm making is that you can't always expect the stuff you want to be right on your doorstep... Sometimes you have to make an effort to get it.
I understand that the specific album you wanted back then wasn't available on vinyl, so you needed a CD player, but that didn't mean that just because there weren't as many vinyl albums around in the mid-90s, or that there were no shops in your town selling vinyl, you couldn't still enjoy it, *if* you'd been willing to make the necessary effort
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Me neither, and it's not like he was living in a mansion, adorned with the finest of everything. It seemed like a decent-sized, but fairly normal house, albeit it (certainly in the rooms that were shown) rather cluttered with hi-fi equipment/associated paraphernalia and music software! But that's his job, and also his passion.
Perhaps, therefore, the thing that many are jealous of is not his supposed wealth or success, but rather that he's been able to earn a living doing something that he LOVES - and his home has been able to facilitate that, rather than his wife or partner, if he has one, as is so often the case with others with similar interests, telling him/moaning that he's not allowed to have big speakers, and who are forced instead to work in some dead-end job that they hate, with a boss that they hate even more?
Mr Fremer is clearly a HAPPY man, who's contented with his 'lot' in life, and experience tells me that that can irk some people [who daily experience the opposite], and cause them to hate you, far more than them resenting how much money you appear to have...
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
Output: Wilson Benesch Vector speakers, KLH Ultimate One Headphones
Cables: Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA & Chord Epic 2 RCA, various speaker leads, & links
I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
Having sold them by the bucketload, back in the day in a well-known department store, I can tell you that there wasn't much in it. Both were dreadful, as was everything else about them, especially the speakers!
The only reason that the CD player would've been considered as "better", would've been because you didn't hear any pops or crackles from records! Other than that, both items were bereft of any sonic merit, if you possessed a decent pair of ears.
That largely sums me up, but it hasn't exactly stopped me from assembling some pretty good systems over the years, as you well know. So that proves you don't need to have great technical knowledge, in order to build a great sounding system!Even today after 20 years of internet there's a lot of serious enthusiasts who have no idea about the technical aspects of anything and no desire to learn. So there's no way that back in 1983 that technical knowledge was a driver of CD sales.
In fact, unless you're an electronics engineer, having great technical knowledge can be a hindrance, as sometimes that knowledge can cloud your views and cause you to reject things, or consider stuff as inferior (simply because on some parameters it measures worse), when actually it isn't.
It can also confuse matters and cause non-technical people, but who are 'impressed' by measurements that they don't really understand, to make the wrong decisions. That's why the likes of some graphs can be unhelpful, as they only depict the black and white, but fail to illustrate the just as important shades of grey...
I've seen it happen many times throughout the years, with the technical superiority of CD, over vinyl, stated by leading 'experts' in hi-fi magazines, etc, having undoubtedly influenced some into believing that CD (or digital) *must* be better [after all the 'experts' say so], rather than simply using their own ears - and that would've happened just as much in 1983, as at any other time, simply because it's human nature.
That's why, as an ordinary individual/music lover, sometimes having great technical knowledge only clouds matters, and it's often better simply to go with your gut instincts!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!