[Boon[_2_]]

On Feb 3, 10:48*am, "Iain Churches" wrote:
"Boon" wrote in message

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On Feb 2, 7:36 pm, Jenn wrote:





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"Harry Lavo" wrote:

My dad had a chain of electronic / hi-fi stores back in the early
fifties,
and as a result I grew up with the very largest (pre-Hartsfield) JBL
corner
horn driven by a 25w Newcomb power amp (with umbilecal preamp). Dad was
friends with Emory Cook ("Sounds of Our Times") one of the very first
"audiophile" record labels (the AUDIOPHILE label was the other....we had
both in abundance). These records on his system sounded as real/realer
than
any system I have heard since. Red Nichols and his Five Pennies playing
dixieland sounded more "in the room" than anything I have heard since,
with
only a few exceptions. A really good horn system was a really good
system,
period.

Harry, with this and other posts of yours, I've come away with an
admiration for your home audio experiences. Thanks for sharing them.
I'll second that.

I too. It's interesting that ones childhood experiences and exposure
to music can sow a seed, even though you may not realise it at the
time. *Both my father and my brother were professional musicians.
Playing and tasking about music, and listening (proper listening)
to records *was a part of our life. I thought it was the norm:-)


My introduction to audio came when I was a teen in the mid "70s. My
older brother was stationed in Okinawa, and all the servicemen were
getting great deals on Japanese equipment. That was back when the
receiver was king, and my brother wound up getting an all-Kenwood
system that really got me hooked. I remember spending my paper route
money on a Sansui 8080DB. Let's see, I also owned a Kenwood KR-9600, a
Concept 5.5. I made friends with the salepeople at Pacific Stereo and
used to hang out there after school. It amused them to no end that
this kid who wasn't even old enough to drive had a pretty decent
system.

I remember I used to love my Dual 510 with a Shure V-15 Type III
cartridge. I went through a bunch of speakers as well...AR 12s,
Jennings Towers and Concept speakers with the Heil Air Transformers.
By the time I graduated from high school I had separates from SAE and
a big pair of Infinity speakers.