Love Letters played on a Bosendorfer concert grand piano through a McIntosh Stereo

Love Letters played on a Bosendorfer concert grand piano. Stereo is a Luxman turntable with Magnepan Unitrac tonearm, McIntosh C-28 Pre-amp McIntosh MC 2105 power amp, and played through KEF 4 way speakers with 9x13 woofers in a 13 foot transmission line bass enclosure. Recommended on line radio station for classic American music from 1920's to 1980'shttp://www.krli.net/

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[UmaBlinky]

The most amazing piece of sound engineering is the human ear = truely awesome. The best speakers, tone arm, and hifi amplifiers cannot reproduce the real sound of a Bosendorfer = beautiful. Funny thing, whether CD or rekee, both cost less than 20$. A flat disk that has either vinyl grooves or microscopic pits - how something that cheap can reproduce sound that well through PAPER CONES in a box. Either is rather crude - but works well for old technology.

[maynardcat]

@UmaBlinky True, but if you want to pay enough money you can get sound equipment that can come pretty close. It is not the cheap CD or Vinyl record but the many thousands of dollars in sound engineering and recording equpment put into the sound on the CD or record. Some older technology can still rival over some newer equipment . Costly new modern technology has gone into some paper cone speakers. I still prefer speakers such as Magneplanar or electrostatics over paper cone types

[stuartylad]

Great to hear this fantastic recording of one of my favourite songs.

You know, I'm sitting here wondering why we all thought that CD was better than vinyl. The warmth and clarity that you have with your system is fantastic. It really does sound as though the performance is in that room with you. I bet they are aren't they? I notice you didn't turn the camera around to show off the jazz combo you've got in your front room! ;o)

Many thanks for putting it up.

Stuart

UK

[maynardcat]

Hi Stuart. Thank you for the nice comment, and yes I agree that a good vinyl recording does have a warmer richer sound than a CD. I have never liked the digital sound especially the early CDs. The newer ones have improved, but I still prefer vinyl. I have never replaced any of my albums with CD.s CDs are secondary to my record albums.

[23565120]

@UmaBlinky I absolutely agree with what you say about the human ear. You apppreciate it more if, like myself, you happen to be a retired audio engineer who can now sadly not hear anything above about 7.5K.

Worse still, one of my favourite gènres is Latin American, where this limitation shows most !

This is a superb rendition of a classic piece!. Very easy on my ears. Gorgeous sounds!...........

[UmaBlinky]

@maynardcat Sound = vibrating the air from source to our ears. A musical instrument is a good source. Some cost a lot, the Bosendorfer is well over 50K$. It does a superb job of a hammer striking a string to make it vibrate at a certain freq. Our amazing ears can distinguish betwizt a Bosendorfer concert grande, and a much cheaper Kimball spinet. And it is easy to distinguist betwixt a cheapo computer mic and a Telefunken. You cannot put a price on our hearing and brain = awesome!

[UmaBlinky]

@maynardcat All the more genius to make it possible with a 20$ plastic disk! Same goes for a microphone, what does it boil down to? A superb mic costs thousands. It's all aobut vibrating air! Just blows my mind!

[TheRedGrant]

Which Luxman turntable model?

[davidaud777]

I agree, there is a warmth you get from records that you can't get with modern day digital technology. This is very important I think for jazz