My Pioneer TX-9100 Tuner still works!..............
Posted on 12/12/2018 9:31:34 AM PST by ETL
OK for a car stereo, wouldn’t want it in my house.
I remember how badly I coveted an Ampex stand-up tape recorder...
My first overwhelming appreciation of stereo was listening to What is and What Should Never Be from Led Zep II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnMiXsRtsfc
My Pioneer TX-9100 Tuner still works!..............
> Good stuff !
Most definitely.
Carver AL-3 speakers powered by Carver Silver 9-t monoblocks.
25 or so years old or so & still sounding fantastic.
Wonderful stuff !
What you described is the only way at that time to get true Discrete 4 CHANNEL audio. I have the same type of gear now and yes there are a lot more than 18 reel to reel titles on tape. Quad 8 track is also discreet but the quality is nowhere near open reel and the channel separation is not as good either.
Oh and As for the two Ears argument against Quad that’s ridiculous...your ears can discern the front & rear channel location just like Left or Right.
Some but not all Quad mixes are fantastic, Moody Blues in Quad come to mind, breathtakingly beautiful on open reel.
Those days were great to be alive. Thinking back I can’t recall the last time I was in a room with other people specifically for the purpose of listening to and discussing recorded music.
Your first pic [above],,,I sold ours at a tag sale, for cheap, just to get rid of it; but I forgot to take out my Sinatra collection, stacked in it.
Wish I still had those records. IIRC, I had every album he ever made. Good memories. :(
A cousin of mine had a 1960’s Fisher tube tuner/amp that was mono. Tubes in both pre-amp and power sections. It produced the best sound for the blues and jazz we used to listen to and play. Back then, you could buy them cheap because they weren’t stereo and they took a minute or two to power up because the tube filaments needed to get up to temp and the transistor stuff came on like right now. The cork-sniff audiophiles criticized them because they claimed that the tubes colored the sound. Of course they did. That’s why our stuff sounded so good.
“Thinking back I can’t recall the last time I was in a room with other people specifically for the purpose of listening to and discussing recorded music.”
Sad story.
When I sold my large house back in the late 90s I threw out all of our LPs in the trash for the city to pick up.
They went back to the early 60s.
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Funny stuff & spot on.
Quad is NOT dead, check out Ambisonics.
I believe one of it’s derivatives is part of the 8k video spec.
That means 22.2 channels.
Think of Ambisonics as computational audio. It allows such magic as the synthesis of virtual volumetric soundfields and microphone types and placements.
All done with lots and lots of math.
Back around 1968 my drum teacher demo'd his stereo setup with 'Omaha', by Moby Grape. Listening to the opening sounds shift back and forth was amazing.
You have to re-cap all that equipment, especially the crossovers in the speakers. It’s on my to-do list.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php
EXpresso?! Seriously?!
Supposably, they like drinking expresso at the nuke-ular power plant...
And for those of you in Rio Linda, the correct words in that last sentence are:
supposEDly
ESpresso
nuCLear
You know, if you're going to publish your writing, at least make an effort to know the language.
And by the way, I am aware that sources like Merriam-Webster often accept "alternate" spellings and pronunciations simply because they are "widely used". Personally, I think that's nonsense. Prior to about 2001, I had never heard ANYONE use "supposably", now I hear it all the time. Doesn't make people who misuse it right, it just makes them ignorant. Same goes for "expresso", which Merriam-Webster has this to say about: "Espresso remains the original borrowed word for the beverage, but expresso shows enough use in English to be entered in the dictionary and is not disqualified by the lack of an x in its Italian etymon. Just think of expresso as a quirky, jittery variant."
No, it isn't a "quirky, jittery variant", it is a MISTAKE.
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I have a pair of L-50’s that I refoamed but alas, I think one of the woofers was blown.
The Beatles were pioneers in this technology. Listen to some of their early recordings on the EMI label with either left or right turned off. You will here only some of the instruments playing. True separation with no bleed over.
When I switch on the 1947 Westinghouse, it takes.....maybe twenty seconds to power up seventeen vacuum tubes from the rectifier to the tuning eye. As noted, amazing sound. I added a stereo preamp then Y-corded the output into the receiver.
Heck, the radio face has pushbuttons with station letters that don’t exist anymore (WKBN and KDKA do, still).
But I’ve gotten lazy since I connected my laptop to the den stereo; almost anything in LP or 78 I can find on youtube and then turn the clock back some more, vids of Victrolas playing WWI tunes such as “Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers” like my grandmother used to sing.
Right now listening to El Rushbo on my Dad’s 1955 Zenith Trans-Oceanic radio. Been a radio & hi-fi buff for quite a few decades now.
>Those days were great to be alive. Thinking back I can’t recall the last time I was in a room with other people specifically for the purpose of listening to and discussing recorded music.
Total 100% dittos. But, if you think about it, while we on this thread are not listening to music, other than by sharing links, we are having a nice discussion. Too bad there isn’t an audiophile ping list.
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