[Jukebox-list] Audio question

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    Jimmy, is this button opaque or translucent? I think we have both. Wes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Day" <recordhound at verizon.net>
To: <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: [Jukebox-list] Audio question


> I'm not much of a "talker" in here, but I do "listen".  Anyway, couldn't 
> help but add my dollars' worth here (inflation, you know).
>
> This discussion about "high fidelity".  The classic definition of the 
> "perfect amplifier" is "straight wire with gain".  Any "colorization", 
> etc. such as warm tube sound, warm vinyl sound, is deviating from the 
> perfect amplifier.  Straight wire with gain.
>
> Personally, I hear no difference between tube and solid-state amplifiers. 
> Audio is audio.  Tubes do distort differently, but distortion of ANY kind, 
> second-harmonic, intermodulation, whatever, is a definite no-no in ANY 
> true high fidelity system.  I see audiophiles go ape over certain audio 
> tubes because of their plate structure.  Especially these 12AX7 tubes. 
> Shrug. These are low-level amplifier tubes.  I put a set of EH 6973s in 
> the Seeburg Q and compared them with the RCA type - and durn if "I" could 
> tell which sounded better.  Or worse.  The EH (Russian) tubes have a 
> smaller plate structure.  I sold some old audio tubes on eBay and had 
> dozens of emails inquiring the shape of the getter.  And special 
> capacitors and resistors that give a resonant clarity to the audio.  Does 
> the color of a wire's insulation affect it's sonic characteristics?  And 
> are audio gurus still using magic markers to darken the edges of a CD in 
> the belief that this will eliminate reflected RF and improve the fidelity? 
> It's an interesting study in human psychology.
>
> The weakest links in any analog audio reproducing system are the 
> transducers; the microphone that converts sound energy to electrical 
> energy, the cutter head, playback pickup, and speaker system, that 
> converts electrical to mechanical.
>
> Some say that a 20w tube amp puts out more power than a 20w solid-state 
> amplifier.  Sure.  So maybe that means that a 1000w space heater uses less 
> electricity than a 1000w electric iron.  They both give a warm feeling.
>
> And what is it with these single-end triode power amplifiers?  Oxygen-free 
> speaker cables?  We had a home theater system installed in one of our 
> houses, and the installer said we must use special gold-plated speaker 
> connectors, lest we degrade our audio quality.  When I asked him about the 
> hundreds of connections inside the amplifier that were soldered with 
> (GASP) tin/lead solder, he had no answer.
>
> As for our old jukeboxes - probably the most important thing, next to 
> reliablity, was that they sound good.  And loud.  Every jukebox I have 
> ever heard sounded very good, even my RO 424 with its germanium amp.  Good 
> needles, good records, adjusted correctly, they all sound good.
>
> And that's my $'s worth!
>
> Now back to work on the DS100...and I still need a "B" keyboard button...
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