Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Given that it was made in 1959, I thought it was a reasonably accurate portrayal of the newly emerging interest in hi fidelity. Flanders and Swann had a similar take on it with their 'Song of Reproduction': https://www.bing.com/search?q='A+Son...=EUPP_CPNTDFJS
The more recent 'Not The Nine o' Clock News' sketch reminds me of the bad old days in the '90s with the Linn/Naim hegemony seriously distorting the advice of dealers at the time. I had to lie to a dealer in Bristol in order to purchase a Linn Asak cartridge, who would only sell me one if I used a Linn turntable!
Barry
I always get so what is it? As if Im going to say one word like Bose or Sony. I end up saying well its a mixture of different brands some of which you probably haven't heard of.
I'll only go into more detail if asked but often by then they've lost interest and replied with a "Oh ok" or something similar
I blame the rise of the wireless speaker for this unholy ignorance..... Sinners all of them.
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Current system:
RPi + Allo Digione
Beresford Caiman Seg & Dorado powered by 15v Linear PSU
Transcendent Sound Mini Beast OTL
Amptastic Mini-1
Klipsch KG4.5 Speakers with Titanium Diagphrams and Sonicap Cap upgrade
110aH Leisure Battery powers the Mini-1 & Digione
IME civilians invariably used to think that either Technics or Bang & Olufsen was the best money could buy. Now they just ask why you're not just using your 'phone to listen to music like everybody else does. According to a young colleague her Alexa thingammyjig 'sounds brilliant' and there's no need for anything else. What can you do?
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Location: Seaford UK
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I'm Dennis.
It is apparent to me that although the SQ from many small Hi-Tech speakers is very good and clear, it must by physics, be of limited bandwidth.
The result of the ubiquity of usage of these things, is that restricted bandwidth is now becoming the social norm, and so when using a wide bandwidth system, speech is often unintelligible because of recorded but missed proximity mic. effects.
Much R4 and TV speech is very difficult to understand unless heard on restricted bandwidth speakers., often cheap ones.
Age will play a part as well, most of us are in or approaching the 'Speak up, sonny!' phase of our lives.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.