Honoring the past and remembering where I came from and how much I have learned
- Thread starter Elliot G.
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Early memories in audio on the steps in Sea Cliff with the early crew of TAS. It was because of these steps that I finally made Harry stop smoking.
I read some early issues this morning and it did bring me back to a time when audio was truly a fun journey and HP was the tour guide.
It took me a long time but I finally found what I was looking for.
Happy New Year to everyone.
I read some early issues this morning and it did bring me back to a time when audio was truly a fun journey and HP was the tour guide.
It took me a long time but I finally found what I was looking for.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Elliot,
Great times when the arrival of a magazine would supply us with a lot of interesting material to read. The issue you present had a few great letters on "The debate : Has High-end lost sight of high accuracy sound" - IMHO still a very actual subject - and many contributions of great designers.
Curiously an argument I often present on defense of high end is referred in page 370 - High-end is a sterling example of the capitalism system working at its best. Competition does indeed breed improvement.
The letter from John Huxhold, entitled "Love Those Gadgets" is a real manifesto of understanding and enjoying this hobby and tolerance towards others different ways of living it - I would be happy to scan it and post in full if it was not for the copyright infringement.
Great times when the arrival of a magazine would supply us with a lot of interesting material to read. The issue you present had a few great letters on "The debate : Has High-end lost sight of high accuracy sound" - IMHO still a very actual subject - and many contributions of great designers.
Curiously an argument I often present on defense of high end is referred in page 370 - High-end is a sterling example of the capitalism system working at its best. Competition does indeed breed improvement.
The letter from John Huxhold, entitled "Love Those Gadgets" is a real manifesto of understanding and enjoying this hobby and tolerance towards others different ways of living it - I would be happy to scan it and post in full if it was not for the copyright infringement.
Audio is not truly a fun journey anymore as compared to forty years ago?
The music is still the same, only better remastered and reproduced, and we have forty years of newly discovered and rediscovered quality music recordings.
To me, back then and today @ the precipice of 2019 it is still all about the music and emotions.
Plus, we gained few more channels in the process of progress; we expanded beyond hi-fi stereo sound...for the true avant-gardistes, the sound explorers, the realism of live music.
I remember my first love...I was fifteen; that's the one that still counts on this last day of 2018.
Happy New Year!
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The music is still the same, only better remastered and reproduced, and we have forty years of newly discovered and rediscovered quality music recordings.
To me, back then and today @ the precipice of 2019 it is still all about the music and emotions.
Plus, we gained few more channels in the process of progress; we expanded beyond hi-fi stereo sound...for the true avant-gardistes, the sound explorers, the realism of live music.
I remember my first love...I was fifteen; that's the one that still counts on this last day of 2018.
Happy New Year!
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The first in the new binding format that lasted for long years? Surely not just because David Wilson joined the staff in this issue ...
TAS looks at early digital recording and doesn ‘t like it? It was at least two years before everything but digital became “gaslight” in that snotty German fellow’s words.
I would love to know Kal.
I looked @ the content trying to guess and I gave some thought to:
1. Forum 370 /The Debate: Has High-End Audio Lost Sight Of High Accuracy Sound - but Francisco already mentioned it and you've said nothing.
2. Controversies 391 / Debating the Diamond/Digital Findings - 1980 we had diamond stylus from analog cartridges but what digital findings in an analog world?
3.Technical Tests 477 / Two Views of Speaker Cables - This is not your favorite subject, actually one that you stay away from, so it can't be that.
I truly don't know Kal why that is the most significant issue of TAS ever!? ...Volume 5, #20 - December 1980
Well, most significant for me....................................
I designed the Aural speakers.
That was impossible for us to know. And without knowing that you designed the Aurals (cool funny name by the way) the significance is your personal domain. I've never heard about them or heard them; were they any good, do you have the review article that you can share with us on this first day of 2019, just for the fun of honoring the past and remembering where you came from and how much you have learned.
And without knowing that you designed the Aurals (cool funny name by the way) the significance is your personal domain. I've never heard about them or heard them; were they any good, do you have the review article that you can share with us on this first day of 2019, just for the fun of honoring the past and remembering where you came from and how much you have learned.
Of course, it was an obscure reference. There are probably few people around today who were involved with them. I have a copy of that issue somewhere and I would be happy to scan/post it as soon as (and if) I can find it. It was only recently that I was able to recover my articles on the infancy of digital audio.That was impossible for us to know.
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