Thanks to the Audio Gods who purposely sabotaged my Acoustats in the final hours of Decfest, I have for the very first time achieved the TRIFECTA of audio rooms. I have tape, my vinyl rig, and the Digital side of the room sounding as good as the formats will allow on all three fronts. I can go from Tape to vinyl to CD without vomiting. In fact with only two beers I can go from tape to digital and get completely lost in the better recordings.
Anyway, keep in mind it's fairly easy to get caught up in an Audio high and spew out of bunch of highly exuberant audio babble designed to seed excitement, and quite another to do it, and then have everyone show up to witness it first hand and find out you weren't making things up. So on that note I'll forgive my exuberance about this years fest and rest comfortably in the knowledge that it will be the best sound ever, on all three fronts of any Decfest to date.
Getting back to last nights digital side of the room, just for kicks, I duplicated the experience I had last night with Dave tonight after listening to one of the best analog tapes we've ever heard. Directly afterwards I fired up the OTL and FRX drivers and played a CD that kept him locked to the couch for 34 minutes, a new world record.
No it's not tape. No it's not even LP, but it doesn't suck, and usually in the past it mostly did... well, suck.
Tonight we took the Beetles tape and put it on the serious tape machine with the butterfly heads and listened to a compilation of over a dozen early Beetles pre 1967 songs that were recorded actually in the same league as the Diana Krall LP's we've all grown to love. Imagine a recording of the Beetles sounding more audiophile and refined than a Diana Krall LP. That's what we witnessed, and that's what we're going to play during the fest among other things that will be memorable to say the least.
I guarantee that those who plan their fest around 8 o'clock all three nights will achieve audio ruination in the same way it has effected us. You'll never see music the same way again, but on a positive note, you'll realize that it's possible to achieve sound beyond what you realized was possible, It will restore your faith and hope when you hear what it was really like BEFORE it got so waxed.
Now that we've really digested this Beetles tape, like other tapes we've heard, the first impression or at least the first comment you make to the other guy listening with you is "I had no idea they were actually that good., they're at least twice or three times better than I knew. "I simply changes everything. It changes your perception of reality because it is reality.
Tonight we had the Beetles unplugged in our listening room sound completely real, and astonishingly good. As though they were really hear. As though it were real. The complete 1000% polar opposite of even their best White album, this was not even comparable. I estimate the value of this tape upwards of a grand.
I couldn't be more excited Decfest coming only a week away! Usually I'm fairly stressed. Now I feel armed and ready. Bring it on, as they say... You visit here will be memorable, and perhaps in more positive and profound ways than it was in the early days... some of you know what I'm talking about. Memerable it was... yes, positive... not completely sure.
Can't wait to see everyone.
Cheers,
Steve
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