06-04-2020, 12:09 PM
I agree.
The digital system I have now is superior in sound quality, convenience, flexibility, and access to more music than I can listen to in a lifetime.
Sometimes, though, I yearn for the days when I had to switch on the tube gear and let it warm up while I took my time to select an LP from the shelves; pull the LP from its sleeve, make sure it was clean of dust or fingerprints [1], put it on the turntable, start the turntable, and gentle drop the arm on the lead-in groove; then sit back and enjoy reading the album cover, occasionally glancing over at the glowing EL34s in my power amp.
Oops, the phone rang, have to get up, lift the arm and park it; try to remember where I had stopped when I come back.
You knew it was HiFi because you could hear the gentle background hiss, especially with electrostatic tweeters
Regards,
Kent
[1] and cat hair! Talk about static cling....
The digital system I have now is superior in sound quality, convenience, flexibility, and access to more music than I can listen to in a lifetime.
Sometimes, though, I yearn for the days when I had to switch on the tube gear and let it warm up while I took my time to select an LP from the shelves; pull the LP from its sleeve, make sure it was clean of dust or fingerprints [1], put it on the turntable, start the turntable, and gentle drop the arm on the lead-in groove; then sit back and enjoy reading the album cover, occasionally glancing over at the glowing EL34s in my power amp.
Oops, the phone rang, have to get up, lift the arm and park it; try to remember where I had stopped when I come back.
You knew it was HiFi because you could hear the gentle background hiss, especially with electrostatic tweeters
Regards,
Kent
[1] and cat hair! Talk about static cling....
