Kreutzbear
New Member
Hi everyone.
I'm a brandnewby here at AudioKarma.org, although I've been a member of Tapeheads.net for a year or so when I got back into R2R tape after a 30 year hiatus. I've got 66 year-old ears and about a 60 year obsession with audio and audio gear, going all the way back to the early demonstrations of commercial stereo sound when the tv/radio networks would work in tandem to broadcast one channel via tv and the other via radio. I was hooked in the 1950s when working with my grandfather in Teaneck, NJ to maneuver his tv and console radio into position so that we could listen to steam engine trains, an orchestra and Frank Sinatra in that newfangled stereo sound, and I've been hooked ever since.
My wife and I have lived in the same one bedroom apartment in Manhattan for the past 35 years, into which I've crammed the following gear:
Turntable:
AR-ES1 from 1984 w/Rega arm and Shure V15 Mk V-MR cartridge
Cassette Decks:
Nak Dragon and Nak DR 2
Reel-to-Reel Decks:
Sony TC-458 (favorite)
Pioneer RT-707
Pioneer RT-1020L
Teac X1000 (awaiting rebuild)
Digital (CD):
Alesis Masterlink digital mastering station
Tascam CD-RW700
Digital (DAT):
Sony PCM 300
Denon 2000-G
Pioneer SV-250 portable
D/A Converter:
Adcom CDA 700 DAC
Amplification:
Adcom GPF 555-II preamp
Adcom GFA 555 amp
Power Conditioning:
Adcom ACE 551
Speakers:
Marantz Imperial 7 (first edition circa 1973)
Energy Veritas bookshelfs (post-Klipsh)
Wharfedale Jade 3 (currently blown)
Record Cleaner:
VPI 16.5
I'm a vinylphile extrordinaire (my first LP was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights") and also a Deadhead former professional operatic basso (wrap your head around that one) who retired from the stage 25 years ago and am now planning on retiring in 2018 from my current career with a prominent white-shoe law firm. We plan to move to our small vacation home on eight acres way out in the country about 60 miles southwest of Nashville where we have a thoroughbred and a walking horse stabled with a neighbor and a circle of friends accumulated over the past 40 years. If Kim-Jong-Stupid doesn't bomb us or Japan I look forward to a long, happy retirement where the only things I have to worry about is access to broadband internet and the armadillos and groundhogs trying to undermine the house.
I probably won't be posting very often here but I will certainly be lurking. Cheers!
I'm a brandnewby here at AudioKarma.org, although I've been a member of Tapeheads.net for a year or so when I got back into R2R tape after a 30 year hiatus. I've got 66 year-old ears and about a 60 year obsession with audio and audio gear, going all the way back to the early demonstrations of commercial stereo sound when the tv/radio networks would work in tandem to broadcast one channel via tv and the other via radio. I was hooked in the 1950s when working with my grandfather in Teaneck, NJ to maneuver his tv and console radio into position so that we could listen to steam engine trains, an orchestra and Frank Sinatra in that newfangled stereo sound, and I've been hooked ever since.
My wife and I have lived in the same one bedroom apartment in Manhattan for the past 35 years, into which I've crammed the following gear:
Turntable:
AR-ES1 from 1984 w/Rega arm and Shure V15 Mk V-MR cartridge
Cassette Decks:
Nak Dragon and Nak DR 2
Reel-to-Reel Decks:
Sony TC-458 (favorite)
Pioneer RT-707
Pioneer RT-1020L
Teac X1000 (awaiting rebuild)
Digital (CD):
Alesis Masterlink digital mastering station
Tascam CD-RW700
Digital (DAT):
Sony PCM 300
Denon 2000-G
Pioneer SV-250 portable
D/A Converter:
Adcom CDA 700 DAC
Amplification:
Adcom GPF 555-II preamp
Adcom GFA 555 amp
Power Conditioning:
Adcom ACE 551
Speakers:
Marantz Imperial 7 (first edition circa 1973)
Energy Veritas bookshelfs (post-Klipsh)
Wharfedale Jade 3 (currently blown)
Record Cleaner:
VPI 16.5
I'm a vinylphile extrordinaire (my first LP was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights") and also a Deadhead former professional operatic basso (wrap your head around that one) who retired from the stage 25 years ago and am now planning on retiring in 2018 from my current career with a prominent white-shoe law firm. We plan to move to our small vacation home on eight acres way out in the country about 60 miles southwest of Nashville where we have a thoroughbred and a walking horse stabled with a neighbor and a circle of friends accumulated over the past 40 years. If Kim-Jong-Stupid doesn't bomb us or Japan I look forward to a long, happy retirement where the only things I have to worry about is access to broadband internet and the armadillos and groundhogs trying to undermine the house.
I probably won't be posting very often here but I will certainly be lurking. Cheers!
