{"id":34174,"date":"2024-05-14T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/?p=34174"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:02:33","slug":"newsletter-issue-1054-a-high-end-audio-attempt-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2024\/05\/newsletter-issue-1054-a-high-end-audio-attempt-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1054 \u2014 A High-End Audio Attempt on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get going with this review, I need to explain where I came from when it comes to home audio history. Back in the 1960s, my brother gave me an automatic turntable (make that a record changer), and one speaker. I made it the second speaker for a stereo system cobbled together from my vintage VM tape recorder. Chintzy, yes, but it worked well enough for my modest needs.<\/p>\n<p>In fact it was the system I used to listen to one of the greatest albums of all time, The Beatles\u2019 \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band.\u201d It seems only yesterday when my wife and I opened a small package containing the album, and give it a spin. At the time, I was actually the morning disk jockey at a country radio station in Tuscumbia, AL. But we didn\u2019t listen to the record at the radio studio; instead, I used my own paltry audio system. Clearly audio quality was not much better than that of a portable radios, but I relied on it for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t have the budget buy a proper audio setup until half a decade later, when I got a loan to finance a stereo setup that consisted of a Dual turntable, Dynaco build-it-yourself electronics and EPI speakers. Among audio components, it had decent quality audio. But the Dynaco amp, the ST-120, had a penchant for blowing out, thus taking out the tweeter on one of the speakers. After a few years, I found a repair shop willing to take the time to figure out the problem. In passing, they told me it was a design problem that they hobbled together a fix for.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2024\/05\/newsletter-issue-1054\/#back\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get going with this review, I need to explain where I came from when it comes to home audio history. Back in the 1960s, my brother gave me an automatic turntable (make that a record changer), and one speaker. 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