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Post Subject: The earliest miraclePosted by Romy the Cat on: 12/21/2017
One of the first audio miracles that I remember was when I
was I think 10 or 11. I had a reel-to-reel machine from 60s, it was running tube
amplification around Russian tube 6N14P and I powered from this tape machine external
speakers that I build myself. It was hardly possible to call speaker as it was
just boxes that I made with some random drivers that I took from old radios.
The drivers were connected randomly, there were no crossovers and anything else
was absolutely ridicules. Still, I was happy with my tape machine and with my treasured
collection of tapes. My friends and I spend a lot of time to record from one machine
to another and I had a lot of interest to do it, even though I had absolutely no
knowledge or understanding of what I was doing.
One day before New Year my parents and I were visited some
family relatives and the father of the family went to balcony to smoke. My
father seldom spoke with me and I was very attracted to other adult figures, so
I went to “smoke” with him. We spent in the balcony over an hour and he told me
a lot of very interesting things. The most remarkable were two facts that I thought
were stunning. First, he told me that Jesus Christ was a Jew. That was very unexpected
to me as my parents were Jews and I could not believe that Christ, about whom everybody
was talking around, was some kind of relative to my parents. Second, he told me
that sound of my tape machine might be improved by changing tube in my amplifier
from 6N14P to British-made EL84. That was even more surprising news, even more
surprising then my parents are related to Christ, as I thought that sound is
what it is on a tape and nothing can be improved besides having better tape or higher
tape speed. In a few weeks as I got somewhere that EL84 tubes and replaced them
in my tape machine. That was nothing short of miracle and it was absolutely magnificent
revelation to me. I suddenly felt that I might get a control over something
that already written in stone and it was very empowering sensation.
In year I was changing heads in my tape machine, speed equalization
corrections, tubes, select “better” drivers, used another radio with bid bass
driver as a complimentary subwoofer. It was the same brainless activity and
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