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Headphones and Vacuum Tubes
antenna:
One of these days (not channeling Pink Floyd) I may put together a playlist for Cloudplay called "Headphones and Vacuum Tubes."
But not today, or this week...
:)
larryrup:
That'd be right up my alley! What incentive can provoke you to get cracking? :)
Larry
antenna:
Just to be clear...
I was referring to the background pictures of headphones and vacuum tube that Theater View seems to use when it cannot find any other background pictures online. I've been running into that a lot of late as I digitize some older vinyl...
Apologies for getting your hopes up for a playlist that sounds great using headphones and vacuum tubes.
larryrup:
Oh darn!
If guilt works (whatever works!) I am devastative. Crushed! I was almost willing to look the other way on pandemic.....alright I jest.
On a more realistic note, giving it the slightest bit of thought, making a playlist around Headphone listening powered by vacuum tubes would be challenging and would require quite a bit of focused listening for those qualities a good pair of headphone and a good tube amp bring out of a recording.
When I got my last amp, during early listening there were a few tracks that jumped right out and met what such a playlist could deliver. There was a Chet Baker track that sounded three dimensional. The old Blind Faith track, Do What you Like, which I bet I've listened to a hundred times (I likely bought this album right around the time it was released), now came through with far more fidelity. As did the Taj Mahal track, your going to Need Somebody. While every thing sounded good, only certain tracks had a substantially different listening experience.
I do understand the population of headphone+tube amp listeners is small, but anyone who fits this category and comes across such tracks that fundamentally gives a different listening experience, post them. I'll start throwing them into a list.
Listening with this combo of gear to me is sinfull. I hope I escape hell.
LR
antenna:
--- Quote ---...On a more realistic note, giving it the slightest bit of thought, making a playlist around Headphone listening powered by vacuum tubes would be challenging and would require quite a bit of focused listening for those qualities a good pair of headphone and a good tube amp bring out of a recording....
--- End quote ---
It would also require a tube amp and appropriate headphones. Neither of which I possess. :(
While I do enjoy my Sennheiser HD-590 headphones, they are used mostly are used to keep the neighbors happy.
The AR-9's tend to put out appropriate and significant low frequency energy, which tends unfortunately to, ummmm, travel beyond property boundaries.. :(
But to your mention of Blind Faith... there was a high quality "go back to the original vinyl master and put it on high quality vinyl" release of it. My recollection is that it was quite good. I'll have to dig it out and include some songs in an appropriate playlist.
I do understand the population of headphone+tube amp listeners is small,
Agreed. But some songs do sound better in headphones. While most seem to be mixed/produced for the usual stereo speaker setup, I have noticed the, "wow" moments when listening in headphones to keep the neighbors happy. Maybe I need to start noting those moments.
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