JVC Nivico 9425W
Everything sounds so real, even the pipe organ.
It seems to be factory equalized (ingenious bass boost) so that the bass sounds large and natural without being heavy.
Signal path:
Baroque Favorites cassette, Raymond Lepard, CBS MAESTRO 40-42548 - JVC Nivico 9425W - ordinary rooms - listener's brain
How lifelike analog equipment sound, it is amazing.
Having said that the cassette is digitally mastered.
The reproduction from this analog cassette player sounds as if the instruments are in the room.
Violins, strings, mandolins, you name it.
And it plays for days without the need to change batteries yet.
Old equipment need to be brought back to life gradually.
The first turn on was for a few milliseconds. On radio first.
At the moment the second part of the oboe concerto in D minor - Marcello plays as modified by Bach on his keyboard arrangement.
The orchestra sounds so real.
It is moving.
It is funny, one can use so many years listening to almost everything and at last feel satisfied with a very simple setup and signal path. As Jim Morisson said, we are trying for something that has already found us.
My fist sound system. When a very small kid, 4+ years old?, I was carrying it and playing in every cafeteria my parent went too.
It was summer time and they had rented a house near the sea near the city of Patras in a small seashore city called Derveni.
The house that my parents rented for these few months happened to be the country house of pianist Gina Bachauer who recently had departed from earth life.
Her sister told my father that we should be very careful as in the living room was still the music stand with scores etc that her friend conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos used to study.
And there was the upright piano too.
My first experience.
I was so young that only after my dad had reminded me recently about this house that the memory came back.
The atmosphere of the place.
How generous can Life be. Thank you!
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