by ichabod » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:04 am
I belong to the late 50s era, so tubes and ARs, JBLs, Altecs, Quads, and those speakers you can buy at abenson or along raon st. like Utahs, Jensen, Universities, EV, along with Sansui, Pioneer, Coral, together with early mass market Jap amps people were buying. I remember quite well having blank open reel tapes recorded with various artists of the era using scotts, fishers, dynacos, when ss amps were just flourishing around replacing (sadly) those nice sounding tube amps. I remember quite vividly the recording tech making a comment about the not so good sound from early ss amps (like the new fishers and scotts when they started their own ss amps) while doing tape to tape recordings using tube amps still. Yong scott sabi niya malamig ang sound, yong fisher bloomy ang bajo and mids, and so forth. This was stereo exchange at aurora blvd. Those were the old good ole days in audio. They've never left me and the impression remains the same despite what other things have come my way in the Nad 3020, Sony, Ortofon, Denon, Ar, Luxman, and the like.
That in the nutshell is how vintage is my audio!