You were bidding too eh? I think Romy will be keeping quiet about hot kit in future ...

Actually, while you guys are here, are there any plans to shut down analogue broadcasting in your neck of the woods? Might want to hang on to those records...

cheers

cv

Antonio J. wrote:

What will you do with the second TU-X1? Are you planning to do some modifications on it? I was about bidding for it while it was very affordable, but once it started to get more and more expensive and I noticed it was you.... I decided my TU-919 is very good too ;-)

I have mine that I been using dally and if something goes wrong with it I would like do not be left without theTU-X1 as I do not know anyone who would be able to fix them. Yes, I got another one purely for the sake of having another perfectly operation unit, boxed and sitting in my storage. It is not an expansive greedy intention but in my mind it is fully justifiable. I will not wiling to peruse any other FM source (I do not thing else better would be ever build) and I would like to be certain that I will be supplied to the rest of my life with sound quality that the TU-X1 offers.

Also, Antonio, believe me or not but I do feel that I peaty much stole it. You see if we have in audio any relation between the prices we pay and the sonic reimbursement the we get out of audio then looking as the prices we ordinary pay for some other sources ($5K for transports + $10K for DAC, $10-20K for TT + $3K for cartridge) I sincerely believe that TU-X1 should cost somewhere near $22K-$25K. In fact, in addition that the TU-X1 offers the sonic result better or similar then a $25K source also the TU-X1 is much more fruitful source then CD or LP as a tuner offers much more culturally richer and more device programming. (Of course in the cities when there are available good FM classical stations… and here is where Boston rules!)

So, looking at all of it I figured out the an nice l back-up TU-X1 would not heart… Now, the fan part is that if I keep my blabbering mouse shut then I would get it even cheaper as I unknowingly was bidding in there against another reader of this site…

The caT

I haven't listened to the TU-X1, but I can swear that my TU-919 is a better source than my Bidat or my vinyl rig in terms of creating an atmosphere of music. Here we only have two decent stations, one for classical which from time to time broadcasts concerts by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concertgebow and also from our local Auditorium. Really enjoyable, yesterday they broadcasted some piano pieces by Fanny Mendelssohn and my wife and I were astonished for the wonderful music it was. The other station is good for jazz and modern music. All the rest are pure crap for program and for sound quality. I wish we had more classical program stations over here.

I thought to buy an affordable TU-X1 just for the sake to see if this can be any better, but I suspect that your TU-X1 and the TU-919 must be members of the same family and make music quite similarly.
I agree that if things were priced for their performance, then these tuners should cost way way more, we're lucky that from time to time some can be found. Have you listened to other Sansui tuners? I wonder if the more affordable and simpler models like the TU-9900 or TU-717 can be doing things this same way. I feel tempted to get a TU-9900 just for the sake to try it and know.

If you ever get tired to have the TU-X1 stored, let me know, but remember that I know how much you paid hahahaha ;-)

Best regards,

Antonio

Allo Antonio,

I think for the UK it's 2012. Also, hHere in London the only classical station worth listening to if you ask me is BBC Radio 3. So a TU-X1 and Lavry would be something of an enormous investment all things considered. I'm fairly sure we'll see a decline in quality on analogue anyway in the run up.

It did make me consider trying to build a tuner that was "hardwired" to Radio 3, should be possible to achieve something spectacularly good...

i'm curious as to whether the Lavry and PC etc will resolve Romy's issues with DSP or at least, achieving a transparent delay for bass horns. But that's another thread...

cheers

cv wrote:

I think for the UK it's 2012. Also, hHere in London the only classical station worth listening to if you ask me is BBC Radio 3. So a TU-X1 and Lavry would be something of an enormous investment all things considered. I'm fairly sure we'll see a decline in quality on analogue anyway in the run up. It did make me consider trying to build a tuner that was "hardwired" to Radio 3, should be possible to achieve something spectacularly good... i'm curious as to whether the Lavry and PC etc will resolve Romy's issues with DSP or at least, achieving a transparent delay for bass horns. But that's another thread...

I’m very surprised that London has such a challenged FM live. I was under impression, perhaps faulty impression that in Europe it should quite a few first class classical FM radio stations. Not to mention that the entire size of Europe probably might be coved by one transmitter… :-) . I do not know how you guy be we are very lucky in here as beside the local FM classic stations we have a number of syndicated broadcast across the country. I’m pretty sure that the largest metropolitan cities in US have the same luxury as we have here in Boston. BTW, I have to tell you that with this 1X tuner the quality even the AM broadcasts is very surprisingly high. I never heard such a good AM from anywhere and I never thought is might be good!!! With Am you should be definably be abler to cache the entire Old World.

Rgs,
The Cat

Allo fellas,

Yes, it is strange. There are a number of decent venues for large scale classical, the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall, opera at the Coliseum etc, but as far as I can tell, on FM, it's Radio 3 and Classic FM, the latter playing cheesy snippets of, well, cheesy music when I've heard it.

Must confess, I've never really bothered to see what's on AM. I will investigate further with a cheap radio and discount any sound quality issues assuming that the mighty sansui will resolve them...

cheers

cv wrote:

Must confess, I've never really bothered to see what's on AM. I will investigate further with a cheap radio and discount any sound quality issues assuming that the mighty sansui will resolve them...

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

It look like the FM recoding on PC is shaping up and I was able to make some test recordings with quite positive result. (Sansui 1X – Larvy AD122 - Linx16 – WaveLab Light – HD - Linx16 - Bidat). Unfortunately there are many setting on the card and in the recording software that I have no idea how to use or even understand what they mean. Also, I am so impressed with Larvy AD122 that I went for DA924, I got as a test to see if it might be useable. Who knows if I will run the AD, DA and the PC form the same master clock and go for the full 24/96 then I might have some advantages. So far the biggest surprise that I got was that Bidat accrual can lock and read a 24/96 stream. Obviously it kick off the bytes over 20Bit but it actually lock on the feed!!! Anyhow, I still can’t figure our how record anything higher then 16/44 with this damn WaveLab…

Anyhow, tonight Michael Tilson Thomas will lead San Francisco with world premiere of his own “Urban Legend”, the Bartók’s Music for Strings and Rishard Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben”. I will try to record this dealyed broadcast if it will be a good play (though electricity is quite bad today in Boston) and dump a little uncompressed file (for the members of the site) to sample it. Will see what I end up with…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

Hello Romy,

The music links don't work for me. They're pointing at http://localhost/...?

I'd love to hear some music.
Been up all night stirring up the second upper bass horn. Halfway done. =)


/Ronnie

Ronnie wrote:

The music links don't work for me. They're pointing at http://localhost/...? I'd love to hear some music.

Yep, shame on me! My 10-second deployment strategy did not work, did it? :-) Anyhow it should be fine now. Do not play it off my server but download the files. They are non-compressed wav files and if you do not have good PC based system then good headphones will do justice. Interestingly that even with very mediocre playback and $3 worth plastic disposable headphones I find that those recordings of FM quite indicative why I am so enthusiastic about the FM. No mater that the recoding was accidentally made at very low level (I am still learning) and the delayed broadcast was quite compressed originally but some beauty of FM still going through those files, namely an amazing connectively, unity and peacefulness of whole music. Wait until I find better recording software and figure out all those settings…

Ronnie wrote:

Been up all night stirring up the second upper bass horn. Halfway done. =)

I know THAT feeling...  Now you can "get" what a reproduced “Steinway’s crash” migh be. :-) When you will be gone post some pictures in an appropriate thread.

Rgs,
Romy the caT

guy sergeant wrote:

What's the position with regard to this (or any other) material that you capture from the ether in this way? Are there copyright/reproduction issues?  I'd be interested in getting a full CD at this quality.  The Leak Troughline tuner I have performs a similar trick with Radio 3 over here but I hadn't considered trying to save any of the better stuff with such high quality hardware. Maybe I should investigate a more affordable means of doing it.

The Cat