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Jan 17, 2018
The first real Ah Ha! was back in circa '85'. We had been making equipment to coat CD's, Aluminum alloy reflective layer, since the beginning with Philips, but none of us owned a CD player yet. Our company put together a trade show booth with some very nice, best in the day, audio equipment and paid for the use of Whitney's first music video (Promoting CD's but think it may have been a LaserDisc? - CD quality regardless). They set up the booth on our factory floor to try it out and demo it for us, the employees...
Yup,, Gobsmacked...
Started collecting CD's from our testing before I had a player, still have some of those at home.
Then the beginning of the next Ah ha.. I was at the AD home show some years ago in NYC, and was poking around a booth looking at some audio hardware on display that Innovative Audio had out and got a demo of early FLAC files in "studio quality", this was what I was waiting for,, I can gain access to the studio stuff, no more in-between corrupted media! Well as best possible,, today.
The last Ah ha, was at home, sitting down in a quiet room last year. I used HD700's, upgraded(nos tubes & $ caps) baby tube amp and a Korg 100 DAC using Audiogate on a laptop. I had been listening to the locked level at 44.1 kHz for a few days, and then unleashed the Korg;) Steely Dan Aja in native DSD 2.8 from a studio master... beautiful sonic lubricity...
I think my next Ah ha moment will be with MEMS in a Can: https://www.massdrop.com/talk/2405/digital-sonic-fluidity
The real life ones simply are , such as seeing Steve Winwood play "Can't Find My Way Home" & "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" at Bethel Woods a couple of years ago, and before that George Winston 15 feet away crawling inside the piano... tuning while playing. You can't be at these events everyday, some perhaps never, many will never truly repeat live in any fashion, so we try to reproduce them as best we can, and we are getting damn close.
The Road, and back again...:
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