in the 90´s i had much more money than today, basically i´m Portuguese and the ones who see from the outside talk a lot of good from places they stayed or it´s quality at confort and food quality and new ways of cooking the same ingredients that in Portugal in interior regions is more or less the same as it was in the late 70´s (real quality not comunity union quality), i should mention that i was lucky my family produced a lot of quality products for family comsumption while entire family´s still knocked at our door asking for old bread and Olive oil that was already used to fry fish but it made us to be the most knocked door by those hungry families ,the best quality around and still today it´s available to us ,all that is sold in big supermarkets is very low quality allthough looking good but it´s rare to buy there the main ingredients of our traditional food . I , being a fan of music in general since young age and when 10 i used to listen and read the two doble albums from the beatles the red and blue compilation bought in Spain , the records were only released in portugal after 4 years of i having them at home and listen to better bands american or english from my parents records in perfect condition ,but in the 90´s with money i was sick of looking to my high-end system from pioneer (the most expensive components in the 76 pioneer catalog) wanted a black with wood side panels components system and after owning the first cd player ever released by Sony in 87 i bought my first cd player from pioneer the PD-7300 allthough i used it till mid 90´s everyday and a heavy use it still works today .I bought a complete Sony ES system with the top-end models in 94 ,but the cd player i bought the pioneer PD-s803(or close) wich it can be noticed the improvement in sound for the model underneath this the S703 ,but never notice a magazine talking about this two models or the craziest thing i´ve ever done of spending a lot of money in a CEC cd player driven by belts , and because the sony es system was giving me problems i had to go and get my 76 component to substitute the new one to be repaired and when i received the new and repaired component it seems that the system would sound very bad this because i conect my spec-1 and spec-2 to my new ES system ,when re-conecting my integrated amplifier that was really good from sony i stayed sad ,because the sound of my 76 amp. and pre-amp. was much better in all senses ,but i stoped in 93 to buy vinil and in 98 i had already 895 cd´s that´s when i conected my old PLC-580 (not sure of the reference) that had a tonearm and cartridge and stylus personalized and from audio-technica and it was very expensive at the time ,even conected to my TA-F790ES (also not sure if the reference is this but close) i put two records live a siouxie and the banshes nocturne and one of the last lp´s i bought The Dream syndicate live at the rajii´s ,they played in my pioneer turntable from the mid 70´s or a bit newer or in my new from 94 thorens turntable(don´t remenber the reference now but equal to the fine arts "conesseur") ,the sound was amazing better than it´s cd versions this having bought the most expensive and powerfull speakers that cerwin-vega had in 94, nothing against digital i was also amazed with the DAT deck from sony i had bought , the funny thing is that the dream syndicate album live says in the back "recorded directelly into DAT " but i had later bought the cd ,because it had more musics and some i really like, not all songs from this band sound good to me but how cheap the cd sounded compared to the VINIL version and the nocturne in vinil is kind of perfect ,the cd horrible.
Sorry, i was already warned by others that i get out of the topic in discussion or help asked for, this to say that i have a lot of friends that we grew up together and they have several diferent brands from mine ,like the arcam alpha 90´s amplifiers and cd players, they were the best, to me they sounded so bad also cambridge audio amps. were so horrible ,but i think i understand if one takes out every tone control and loudness or other important features in the building of an amplifier wich makes the sound real or rich and full of dynamic ,the measures become far superior to old perfect sounding amps. , no nothing compared to old amp.s and cd players the same , and the ones who called themselves Audiophiles, say ,"how bad ,it sounds . No efects ,we are suposed to hear what artists recorded in studio and with equalizers and efects one doesn´t listen to the real sound produced in studio,"that´s when i asked them if they used to listen to local bands playing in our city of several diferent styles of music " they would say ,they are bad not worse listening wich i replyed ,see you don´t even know how instruments sound and how many concerts you went to see in other main cities of american or europen bands ,they would reply "i saw sting and elton john also david bowie and the rolling stones " i would get a shop plastic bag and say here are the tickets from the concerts i saw(and arrived home) ,maybe all bands that played in Portugal since the 80´s till 2015 including portuguese bands ,famous and not famous since they started the same with foreign groups , and i like music ,i remenber seeing live Miles Davis with my aunt and duran duran when they released the first album ,also Iron maiden with judas priest ,in the piece of mind tour , also saw Sepultura with fudge tunnel in the same night i watched also new model army and at the end of the night after travelling 150km´s i would watch Loyd cole already without the commotions wich i saw all concerts from the band till they split. i also have a studio at home that my father assembled in 73 and improved each year and i still use it to record demos to the new bans that ask me to since 1987 when for the first time my father allowed me to use it ,thats what i showed to my audiophile friends after a discussion," see DBX equalizers a mixing table with endless efects speakers that reproduce all frequencies you can year, and you tell me that in studios they don´t use nothing and how bad your systems sound with flat listening", wich i do also but with a early 60´s amplifier that needs 30 minuts of warming up till i conect them to a cd player and only a volume knob ,and in mono but with two huge speakers that was given to me by my grandfather but tell me that cd is great ,well several cds i have sound perfect but rock bands using old instruments or anything recorded before 1995 doesn´t sound better in cd ,with exceptions off course , cd is good but analog peaked and digital already developed a lot but far from the peak . Just my opinion others might know better
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