Post by CountryCrock on Mar 7, 2024 18:52:53 GMT
149MB
mega.nz/file/wf8H3TRC#nsBfEwgawc_rqmIWAgQCLaXojAuPJmjY2u6_RHmv3Ng
An example of when '60s wonky stereo mixing had gotten to such a point: boardops were just, seemingly, taking-the-piss to use it as an excuse for any material (otherwise) thin on ideas.
1968's UNDERGROUND FIRE (IMO, wrongfully) may not be one of the "more famous" Ventures' albums; however, I have a soft-spot for it because it was the first Ventures' album I'd ever heard...remembering my father having played this same tape (now) over forty-years'-ago.
I, also, think it's actually quite a good "system demonstration" recording as well (especially: the side with the covers; kicking-off with them doing an instrumental of "Born to be Wild"). If a system can handle an entire album such as U.F. with the volume at the 12 o'clock position (which, in most cases, is the proverbial "out the back door"-loudness level...something the nature of vinyl and a microphonic turntable would, just because of their physical tendencies, disqualify themselves from doing at the start) *without* "breaking a sweat" or blowing the midranges out --- then it *is* a GOOD system, indeed.
Even if it happens to be a fully-restored collection of vintage components from the era most of this music was recorded and sold during: a lot of the (supposed) "advancements" in audio today are really nothing but a sales gimmick (as-evidenced by the outright criminal bullshit behavior on the Internet trying to market them) and, they are (seriously) *no better* than what the likes-of manufacturers Sansui/McIntosh/Dynaco/Acoustic Research/Akai/Tandberg had achieved in sound reproduction capability already by 1970.
i.postimg.cc/1RK2d1rY/20240307-101013.jpg
i.postimg.cc/qgVNn6Dj/Polish-20240306-175523312.jpg
mega.nz/file/wf8H3TRC#nsBfEwgawc_rqmIWAgQCLaXojAuPJmjY2u6_RHmv3Ng
An example of when '60s wonky stereo mixing had gotten to such a point: boardops were just, seemingly, taking-the-piss to use it as an excuse for any material (otherwise) thin on ideas.
1968's UNDERGROUND FIRE (IMO, wrongfully) may not be one of the "more famous" Ventures' albums; however, I have a soft-spot for it because it was the first Ventures' album I'd ever heard...remembering my father having played this same tape (now) over forty-years'-ago.
I, also, think it's actually quite a good "system demonstration" recording as well (especially: the side with the covers; kicking-off with them doing an instrumental of "Born to be Wild"). If a system can handle an entire album such as U.F. with the volume at the 12 o'clock position (which, in most cases, is the proverbial "out the back door"-loudness level...something the nature of vinyl and a microphonic turntable would, just because of their physical tendencies, disqualify themselves from doing at the start) *without* "breaking a sweat" or blowing the midranges out --- then it *is* a GOOD system, indeed.
Even if it happens to be a fully-restored collection of vintage components from the era most of this music was recorded and sold during: a lot of the (supposed) "advancements" in audio today are really nothing but a sales gimmick (as-evidenced by the outright criminal bullshit behavior on the Internet trying to market them) and, they are (seriously) *no better* than what the likes-of manufacturers Sansui/McIntosh/Dynaco/Acoustic Research/Akai/Tandberg had achieved in sound reproduction capability already by 1970.
i.postimg.cc/1RK2d1rY/20240307-101013.jpg
i.postimg.cc/qgVNn6Dj/Polish-20240306-175523312.jpg