[Premium-Rx] Every so often I just have to stop and ask myself

[Ka9p at aol.com]

So right about the orange nixies, but from the blue collar  DSR  2  and the 
old Heathkit counter here.
 
...........but one of those 8711-1s followed me home a few weeks ago, like  
a moth to a flame.......green ain't so bad either, and has been on pretty  
much 24/7  since then, going head to head with an HRO5TA1 that I've spent  
the last few months working thru - same purpose, 50 years apart, haven't 
heard  anything on the 8711 the HRO won't ...and I'm pretty sure the HRO audio 
is light  years ahead of the WJ.
 
So how many radios ya need to get in before ya need that 12 step program  
Mac, please say it has to be triple digits, right?  :)  
 
Scott
 
 
In a message dated 3/11/2014 10:47:34 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
paul at 8zo.com writes:

Well  said Mac!

I suffer from much the same affliction.  It seems the  attraction to a 
premium receiver is more than about measured performance: it  is about an 
appreciation for the receiver’s actual state of the art.   Speaking of “art” - 
that is exactly what these radios are: a true art  form!

Were ultimate performance the only consideration, I’d only listen  to my 
Rohde & Schwarz XK-2100L and have no need of anything else.  As  it is, I have 
a 1964 model R&S EK-07 receiver right next to it.  Just  last night, I was 
having great fun listening to my Adams Morgan Paragon RA-10  / DA-2 receiver 
from 1922.  Even after 92 years, it is still  magnificent!

There is a certain elegance in the advanced achievements  of our premium 
receivers regardless of their age.  Excellence in human  achievement is often 
admired by those with the knowledge and ability to  understand it.  

Our love of premium receivers is a result of our  knowledge and 
understanding of them.  Connoisseurs are the masters of the  wines they drink, not the 
other way around.  

Am listening to my  National HRO-600 right now… is there anything more 
beautiful than a great  receiver with a Nixie tube display?

Vy 73 de Paul   W8ZO



On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Mac  <libbysales at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Subject says it  all,  I am damn near 70 years old,  why just why do I 
have this  attraction for stand alone RECEIVERS, like most of us, over the 
years at any  one time I have had or presently have 1-3-5 + really good 
receivers.
>  These receivers are typically expensive to very expensive $1,000 on the 
low  side to 4k plus on the high.. While they had/have many features for 
their  day.
> 
> There is hardly a receiver made today that comes as a  part of a quality 
Amateur Transceiver that wont run performance rings around  most if not all 
of our PREMIUM Rx's.  The advent of roofing  filters,  full DSP features 
throughout the set, size weight and add in  reliability all the other factors..
> 
> Yet i still am drawn back  to stand alone receivers that are more prone 
to needing expensive repairs take  up more desk/rack space and do less. Not 
withstanding less and less to listen  to from 100kc -30mhz beyond ham bands.
> 
> I now have come to  also look upon this fine group as a "support group"  
where friends don't  let friends buy and rely on combination 
receivers/transmitters.
>  
> What started this was the posting several weeks ago from the UK guys  
offering WJ 8711A at i thought a reasonable price, then a friend mentioned he  
was selling his FT-1000D  and i asked myself what would my friends on  
PremRx do...  but i didn't wait,  last night i bought the  FT-1000D
> 
> It must be so very hard to break a truly harmful  addiction 
[drugs/alcohol]  if I can't even break my addiction to Premium  Rx's  .. I need some sort 
of like a 12 step plan for guys like me  ...
> 
> Thanks for listening.  mac/mc  w5mc
>  
> 
> 
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