John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part II

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scott wurcer said:
Doubt it. Ultimate irony Paul's speakers were part of the best setup I ever heard, the one I mentioned as the only time the bass was right. Old school technology to boot. The system was all big $$ valve with a Goldmund reference and precious Koetsu cart. The guy listened to nothing but LSC's and Living Presence both in complete collections up to 5 deep on many. I guess I got out just enough.

One night he said, "Is Harry Pearson losing his mind" as he put on "Autobahn".
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Working on setting up a Koetsu Black , maybe the same magic, speakers are going to be pretty similar...

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Jay said:
Many people try to find out technical explanation why cables sound different. I don't have interest to find out. For me technical skill is required to get to the good sound. Once the good sound can be achieved, I don't care with the Physics. If I try to find out, may be I can do better at that. But why? What for?
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That's fine, each of us has their own particular 'bent' in this game - personally, I very much would like to understand, so that I can always avoid the problem in the future, and if a system doesn't sound 'right', to be able to precisely zoom into where the issues are ...
 
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fas42 said:
Unfortunately the CD side of it used the "discard what may be unpleasant" creed, so half of the music on my test disks completely vanished when they were played ... 😉
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May be we need a dedicated thread to discuss about this. I believe it is an important thing in finding out a "holly grail" of audio. I have seen only very few people who think (better is who experience) that a good system should sound good regardless of the source. I'm one of these, and we need to clarify if the idea is flawless or not. Even if there's a flaw, this idea doesn't come from amateurs who has limited experience, so worth looking at (we can discuss the technical aspects of why it is so).
 
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Best 1812 recording hevaaaaar ......
 

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Jay said:
May be we need a dedicated thread to discuss about this. I believe it is an important thing in finding out a "holly grail" of audio. I have seen only very few people who think (better is who experience) that a good system should sound good regardless of the source. I'm one of these, and we need to clarify if the idea is flawless or not.
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I agree, it would be worthwhile to discuss it some more. If you want to kick off a new thread, I'll happily participate, 🙂.

Personally, I believe the idea is "flawless" - I have a rich reservoir of truly devilish recordings, which I always use to test where "I'm at". By one means or another I can always push a system to a sufficient quality level, where that one, last, "dud" recording can be brought to life ... 😉
 
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Still worth doing, so that all the ideas and thoughts on the matter are in one place. Personally, I find that a solid discussion brings out the best, and the worst, in people's thinking on a matter - and then there is a simple, for the future, reference to go to, to get a good overview on 'the state of the board' ...
 
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morinix said:
The top-end is goosed like crazy on that.
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Those sort of considerations vanish when a system gets it "right". Stand next to a real trumpet going for it, to experience a "goosed top-end" - higher frequencies are not a problem, but when they are done badly they are diabolical - I've experienced excrutiating PA 'reinforcement' of big band playing, and this was as close to a hellhole on earth as it gets, soundwise.

Distortion is distortion ...
 
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