[GreenKeys] [Boatanchors] Lots of WECO stuff

[Larry DeSoto]

Years ago I bought a pair of baby Klipsch's.  The place that sold them to me 
had a pair of Klipsch corner horns hooked up to a very nice amplifier and 
turntable and the salesman was playing an RCA test record that had been 
through the mill.  Needless to say, the amp and the Klipsch corner horns 
made every scratch and flaw on the test record excruciatingly obvious. 
While we were there listening to it, some fellow beebops in, listens awhile 
and then announces, "my $29.95 Lafayette speakers sound better that that."

Neither one of us had the heart to tell him that with a frequency response 
of 300 to 3000 Hz, his $29.95 speakers weren't reproducing anything for him 
to find objectionable.

Larry
WA5MLH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
To: "Gerry Block" <gblock at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "'Jack'" <wa2hwj at att.net>; <Greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [Boatanchors] Lots of WECO stuff


>
> On May 1, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Gerry Block wrote:
>
>> About 20 years ago I witnessed Doug Sax at the Mastering lab
>> identify the
>> brand of patchcord used to patch line-level audio signals,
>> blindfolded, by
>> listening test.  He was identifying brass vs nickel (or maybe it was
>> silver..) plated patchcords.
>
> Gerry,
>
> It's a treat to witness the abilities of a true master at a craft.  I
> don't know who Doug Sax is but I assume he's a grand master of music
> recording/mixing.  As such, he'd have spent decades really LISTENING
> to the sounds and would be able to hear things that us mere mortals
> might well miss.
>
> However, a brief story from my past:
>
> in the 1970's I worked with a fellow who wanted to buy some new hi fi
> speakers for his home.  A buddy of mine who even then had a well
> developed ear and I took the fellow to a hi fi dealer (near Boston)
> and listened to speakers.  First we listened to a pair of Boston
> Acuostic speakers.  They sounded moderatly ok to me.  Then we listened
> to a pair of Kef 104's.  WOW!  To ME, it sounded like someone had
> removed a four inch layer of cotton curtains from between me and the
> orchestra.  By comparison, the Boston Acoustic ones were like mud.
> The difference was both clear and a huge improvement (not just subtle
> differences I might or might not prefer).
>
> Oddly the fellow bought the Boston Acoustic mud-producers!
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky at earthlink.net
> 529 Cobb St.
> Groton NY, 13073
>
>
>
>
>
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