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I had a wonderful time at Gary’s home and “audio showcase” last night. I met Gary by exchanging posts on this site and we both live in the same neck of the woods.
Everything about Gary’s system different than mine, but I was struck by many similarities. First, his goal is to have wonderful music at hand and enjoying it by placing it a comfortable location. Gary, like me, “hides” much of his equipment in an enclosed cabinet. His is taller and min is wider, but both are not in view when you sit down and listen to your music.
Gary has a wonderful Macintosh system that sounds beautifully, very dynamic, very real. I envy his larger room. He can play his system 50% louder than mine and get a lot more out of it for that reason. My room is smaller and there is a limit to how much I can raise the volume and remain comfortable Yet I know my system, and most others, need to crank it out a bit more. One day, I might get room treatments and then I’ll be able to crank it up. I don’t know anyone around here that does that.
Gary too, organizes his discs and has a typewritten list of his discs. We listened, fully to Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and a couple of Chesky samplers. While the music sounded great, the singers were wonderful too.
I often don’t quite fit in with audiophiles, but I was perfectly comfortable here. You see, it took me a while to learn, that my hobby is not audio, but music. The equipment, which Gary worked long and hard on, and so have I, is the means to an end, it’s not the end to itself.
I didn’t come to Gary’s house to listen to his speakers; I came to hear his music. And I loved it.
Recently, when many of us met in an audio store in Manhattan, I felt a little bit out of place. First, instead of playing record or CD, short selections were mostly played; often not even a full cut. Then, when the record player was selected, instead of music, we heard flamingo dancing. People there knew of many different amps, I only have heard a select few. But how an amp sounds with different speakers and different inputs is something I can only speculate on. My “standard” is real music, not electronics.
Once again, though, Gary’s system confirms my thinking that a great and real sounding system does not have to be brand new, but needs someone with patience and a good ear to put it together. And also someone to lift 150 pound amps.
Gary’s Mac SACD/CD sounded great and I did wonder how it would sound on my system, and how my Krell would sound in his. Sadly, both of us get terrible FM reception on Long Island, and most of our favorite stations are gone anyway.
But I felt right at home with Gary and his system. I loved the music
How would I improve his system? Simple!!!!!!. Recliners!!!! Leave the system alone, it’s great, I wanted to stay a few hours more and then a recliner would help!!!! The guy only has sofas!!!!!!!! (Gary, you know I am teasing!!!!):wave: I just had a great time.
Everything about Gary’s system different than mine, but I was struck by many similarities. First, his goal is to have wonderful music at hand and enjoying it by placing it a comfortable location. Gary, like me, “hides” much of his equipment in an enclosed cabinet. His is taller and min is wider, but both are not in view when you sit down and listen to your music.
Gary has a wonderful Macintosh system that sounds beautifully, very dynamic, very real. I envy his larger room. He can play his system 50% louder than mine and get a lot more out of it for that reason. My room is smaller and there is a limit to how much I can raise the volume and remain comfortable Yet I know my system, and most others, need to crank it out a bit more. One day, I might get room treatments and then I’ll be able to crank it up. I don’t know anyone around here that does that.
Gary too, organizes his discs and has a typewritten list of his discs. We listened, fully to Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and a couple of Chesky samplers. While the music sounded great, the singers were wonderful too.
I often don’t quite fit in with audiophiles, but I was perfectly comfortable here. You see, it took me a while to learn, that my hobby is not audio, but music. The equipment, which Gary worked long and hard on, and so have I, is the means to an end, it’s not the end to itself.
I didn’t come to Gary’s house to listen to his speakers; I came to hear his music. And I loved it.
Recently, when many of us met in an audio store in Manhattan, I felt a little bit out of place. First, instead of playing record or CD, short selections were mostly played; often not even a full cut. Then, when the record player was selected, instead of music, we heard flamingo dancing. People there knew of many different amps, I only have heard a select few. But how an amp sounds with different speakers and different inputs is something I can only speculate on. My “standard” is real music, not electronics.
Once again, though, Gary’s system confirms my thinking that a great and real sounding system does not have to be brand new, but needs someone with patience and a good ear to put it together. And also someone to lift 150 pound amps.
Gary’s Mac SACD/CD sounded great and I did wonder how it would sound on my system, and how my Krell would sound in his. Sadly, both of us get terrible FM reception on Long Island, and most of our favorite stations are gone anyway.
But I felt right at home with Gary and his system. I loved the music
How would I improve his system? Simple!!!!!!. Recliners!!!! Leave the system alone, it’s great, I wanted to stay a few hours more and then a recliner would help!!!! The guy only has sofas!!!!!!!! (Gary, you know I am teasing!!!!):wave: I just had a great time.
