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In the Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year

Post Subject: RoomPosted by mats on: 1/1/2014

An FM broadcast of church bells from the major cathedrals around Sweden welcomed 2014. Blessed with holidays in my family's home in Dalarna, the miracle of a truly great room was granted. Built with logs in 1947, spruce floor, ceiling, and since the mid 70's, clad with 10 to 14" wide 100 year old planks! An open fire place, vintage corner cabinets, a few copper and pewter items, this room is a miracle for music and conversation. A Pioneer receiver and bookshelf speakers in one corner give so much joy in this space, it makes me wonder.

2013 brought stereo broadcasting back to our classical station,thanks to my BW Broadcasting RBRX1 reading of a way out of spec pilot signal. More about that some other time.
My horns are now phenolic / alnico from 300hz up, and with the imminent implementation of TAD 1601B in sealed 3cuft, alnico down to 60hz. The phenolic / alnico sound, rounded out by EV T-350's, is to my ears very pleasing, and closer to the concert hall.

This year the quest for a DAC more sophisticated than my Lavry DA-11 will hopefully yield fruit. As great as vinyl is, for me, so much musical joy these days comes from FM recordings, and other shared recordings of independent origin. A great DAC is really at the heart of music.

Finally a shout out to Roman for keeping this a great place to visit and learn, something that I do most every day.

Mats

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