Miles smiles!

[Deleted User]

Hello,
I just received two open reel tapes that I am anxious to listen to. These are high speed copies of "Kind Of Blue" and Sonny Rollins, "Sound of Sonny" on Riverside. These are 15 IPS 2 track master tape copies and are supposed to sound amazing! I'll be able to smell the Chesterfields on Miles' breath! Audio heaven.
Ken

RuSsMaN

Sounds like ear candy.

Which player are you using, I can't remember what you said you had, and what you were looking for. Didn't you have an Akai or was it Teac?

Break down the rig if you don't mind so I can live vicariously through you.

Cheers,
Russ

HBombToo

if you burn it to disk I'll buy a copy:D

Twin

dylan

Ken's my audio hero, and I remembered he had a compressor in his setup, so I searched on that. Reading this inspires me to learn more.

Read it and weep

Loud & Clear

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.

I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.

On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.

I have played Hamlet, and I have performed open-heart surgery.

[Deleted User]

Hello,
The tape sounded excellent, amazing dynamic range and definition. The front-to-back depth, especially was incredible, you could really get a feeling on where everyone stood during the recording. Also, there is a definite "raw" quality, hearing all of the things you normally don't hear. My wife commented on how you could hear the sax player's breath coming from the instrument as well as the sound of the instrument, itself. Kind of like taking a painting, you're very familiar with and having it cleaned. You can see more of the brush strokes and the colors are more intense and vibrant.
I was using a Stellavox SP7 tape deck set up for 15 IPS NAB playback EQ. This is a unit that is typically used for film sound recording, similar in overall design as the Nagra decks. There is an accessory that attaches to the SP7 to allow 10.5" reels to be played. I'm also going to listen to the tape on a high speed 1/2 track Revox A77 that I've done some work on. I'm about 90% finished on a Sony TC850-2 that I've rewired all of the electronics connections with Cardas Litz wires and changing the resistors and capacitors. Then, there's an Ampex 351-2, classic vacuum tube studio recorder (this series deck was used on thousands of great recordings, Beach Boys, Elvis, etc) getting parts cleaned and polished.
Ken

[Deleted User]

Hello Loud and Clear,
A very impressive list of accomplishments! When you played Hamlet, did you pattern the performance after anyone in particular? How about Laurence Olivier? or Richard Burton? maybe Mel Gibson? how about Kenneth Branagh? I think Burton is my favorite.
Can anyone think of a link between Hamlet and a great Hitchcock movie title? Could be a Polk goodie, for you, if you can!
Ken

RuSsMaN

"North by Northwest"

The original title was THE MAN IN LINCOLN'S NOSE, which was replaced by a reference to a line from William Shakespeare’s HAMLET (in which Hamlet says, "I am but mad north-north-west.").

I win I win!

-Russ

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Congratulations, Russ! Exactly right, Micah was the one who told that bit of information to me. Email me your address at kswauger@polkaudio.com and I'll try and find something nice to send.
Take care, Ken