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Thanks Greg
It kind of suspected that as it was an old post, but you never know.

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Ha

actually, it was meant to be two questions in one:

are there things that are overlooked now because our restless attention has wandered elsewhere, or were they just just overhyped cheap baubles that fascinated us for a while.

Ha!

never hear about that EH pre anymore.

That wooden hexagonal mic.

Remember that group buy that blew up the internet?

Never hear about joe meek stuff anymore.

RNP and RNC

for a minute, it was all gap 73 all the time, now warm audio.

rebuilt preamps from old tape decks.

been hanging around music forums for many years now. i remember so many fads. One thing they all these fetish objects had in common was they were cheap. where are they now? so many of them have just disappeared from view. were they not good enough to stand the test of time, or are people just on to ...

I thought I was the only one left who didn't do fbook and tweeter

I have a 35 or maybe a 30.
I go check tomorrow.
Where are you located?

or maybe an analogy might be watching a movie actress on film as opposed to living with her? Of course it's articficial because even if the recording is an old style capture the performance, the performers are not in the room with you, but instead a fixed performance with no possibilty of variables ...

all recording is artificial.
The fact of recording is artificial.
which is fine. It is what it is.

One of the most amazing musical moments i've experianced was when a collector of victrolas played me a caruso disk on one of his wind up machines. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck. i could swear caruso was in the room with me. My ears didnt have to 'squint" at all. i could hear caruso breat...

The problem is not the cost per hour of the engineer, the problem is the cost of the work. No engineer has ever been sued for overspecifiyng, which is too bad IMO. They don't have to pay for the work, so they cover their rump when writing up the specs. This leads to specification creep, where the ne...

you do have a manual, yes?
If not, they are online.
Just go through the steps they outline one by one.
as far as fuses, they can look and test good, but still not work.
They are cheap enough, so maybe just replace if they are older.

have him change the reed and or mouthpiece.

these recordings sound very good especially for a cassette based recording.

i wonder if all the people who were excited by the EH pre 5 years ago still using it, or are they on to other pres.