What will the audiophile section of heaven be like?
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From Copper Issue 148
Heaven
F R O M T H E S W E E T S P O T
Written by Andy Schaub
What will the audiophile section of heaven be like?
You’ll have an endless supply of Black Gate capacitors of all types and values.1.
Quads will always go low, play loudly, and never fail.2.
All tubes are NOS Telefunken and they will never die.3.
All FETs will be soldered in place by Nelson Pass, on loan from Earth.4.
Cartridges will set their own VTAs.5.
All DACs are R-2R designs.6.
All transformers are made by angels.7.
Cables do not matter, ever; but they are all really big and expensive.8.
There is no feedback.9.
Record cleaning fluid flows from a natural fountain, works flawlessly, tastes like The Macallan 25, and is totally organic.
Heaven
F R O M T H E S W E E T S P O T
Written by Andy Schaub
What will the audiophile section of heaven be like?
You’ll have an endless supply of Black Gate capacitors of all types and values.1.
Quads will always go low, play loudly, and never fail.2.
All tubes are NOS Telefunken and they will never die.3.
All FETs will be soldered in place by Nelson Pass, on loan from Earth.4.
Cartridges will set their own VTAs.5.
All DACs are R-2R designs.6.
All transformers are made by angels.7.
Cables do not matter, ever; but they are all really big and expensive.8.
There is no feedback.9.
Record cleaning fluid flows from a natural fountain, works flawlessly, tastes like The Macallan 25, and is totally organic.
Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
Comments
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Self plagiarism:
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Gonna look like this -- but the bobsled team conga line will be much, much longer*
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* umm, at least, I hope it will be...
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I'll never know.
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... and I hope that Al got high-res when he got to audiophile heaven...
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Can't say what heaven will look like, but I am certain the road to hell is lined with Bose Acoustimas cubes...The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
I think a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.
Not common knowledge but God has a fondness and preference for 8-track. 😳
It's said that He gets a kick out of the Ker-Chunk.Sal Palooza -
SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
Man, Oh Manischewitz!
Looks like a phalanx of... are those A80s?
Whatever they are, they look intimidating.
(in a good way)
EDIT: Oh, and I just noticed Papa down at the end of the line after I posted...
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I believe they are all A80 decks, collected in China.
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nooshinjohn wrote: »Can't say what heaven will look like, but I am certain the road to hell is lined with Bose Acoustimas cubes...
and "amazing" PC speakers.Expect that there will be bumps in the road. Choose to not let them rattle you.
Polk - Monitor 10As, SDA 2Bs, LSi9s, White RTi4s, S4s, M3s, various centers.
Boston - CR7, CR6s, CR4s.
Subs - M&K V4, M&K VX-7B, JBL SUB150P, Jamo Sub 250, and others.
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We know the angels will be playing horns, but the question is: Altec Lansing, or Klipsch?
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
We know the angels will be playing horns, but the question is: Altec Lansing, or Klipsch?
Klipsch in heaven?
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I'm sure it's going to be all Engelbert Humperdinck on JVC systems...
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More Far Side: welcome to Heaven, here’s your harp. Welcome to Hell, here’s your accordion.
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I think it will be a place that the greats will be hanging around and talking about audio products. There will be rooms to go into that form into your dream system and room configuration. It will be a history of your path in audio replay systems and a path you didn't get to finish.
It will be a level of comfort that deepens your understanding.Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time. -
I think it will be a place that the greats will be hanging around and talking about audio products. There will be rooms to go into that form into your dream system and room configuration. It will be a history of your path in audio replay systems and a path you didn't get to finish.
It will be a level of comfort that deepens your understanding.
They couldn't get Bongo* to trade in his street duds for the white robe, though...
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* i.e., The late, great James Bongiorno, of Dynaco, SAE, GAS, Sumo, and Spread Spectrum Technologies fame. He was a character and he was responsible for some pretty serious hifi gear in his time on this terrestrial globe. -
Screw audio gear in Heaven... I am taking in all the live performances I can get.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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Supposed to be 30,000 records, all Mantovani. Just kidding on the Mantovani part.
I remember, several years ago, my wife and I went to this person's house answering an advert for "records for sale, good condition". After driving for 45 minutes we found the house and were ushered into this medium sized room that had all four walls floor to ceiling covered in record shelves. "Bingo!", I thought. This is it, "The Mother Lode"! I kept searching for the London Blue Backs, RCA Living Stereos, Mercury Living Presence. The guy must have had every Lawrence Welk, Mantovani, Ray Conniff, Bert Kaempfert, 101 Strings, James Last (my dad was a big James Last fan) Jackie Gleason and Percy Faith record ever printed. Nothing wrong with any of it, all fine musicians who had made well crafted music, but just not what I was interested in. -
30,000 Mantovani records. That would be some folks' definition of H-E-double-hockey sticks.
... or maybe it was just the title to the B-side of this Harry Chapin classic...
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Man I had to look up that Jackie Gleason stuff....
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Jackie Gleason's stuff was music for 1950s married couples to reproduce to. Extremely slow tempos; really syrupy stuff. Although The Great One was a trumpet player, I am not sure he really had much if anything to do with the recordings bearing his name(?).
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Jackie Gleason's stuff was music for 1950s married couples to reproduce to. Extremely slow tempos; really syrupy stuff. Although The Great One was a trumpet player, I am not sure he really had much if anything to do with the recordings bearing his name(?).
I do not doubt you on the music. Although when I researched the music side I found all kinds of stuff I had never known about the man.
Incredible life.
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Look for "The Honeymooners" on YouTube, golden era TV, he was brilliant. It's the prototype of the Simpsons, Family Guy, Flintstones and many others.
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Probably some Lester Lanin and Ferrante & Teicher in there as well. There were a lot of all of those in my dad's collection, along with many, many box sets from Reader's Digest, Time-Life, etc.SeleniumFalcon wrote: »The guy must have had every Lawrence Welk, Mantovani, Ray Conniff, Bert Kaempfert, 101 Strings, James Last (my dad was a big James Last fan) Jackie Gleason and Percy Faith record ever printed."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
I saw Ferrante & Teicher in concert at University of MD way back when.
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There's a European company who produces high quality master tape copies called Horsch House and they have made arrangements with Mantovani's daughter to release some of her father's tapes on reel to reel.
