When I was a kid, I bought a mono Columbia of the Marlboro Festival under Casals, and first heard it on a Magnavox all in one record player with a built in amp and single cone mono speaker, and I remember being transported by the beauty of it. (I was a very odd 14 year old!)
I still have that record and listened to it recently... and it still beautiful, and it took me right back there to my parents living room in 1967.
I think of course our first experience of something sets the bar, and of course I now have better sounding recordings, but none more meaningful.
For me, it's the gestalt. And to each their own.
I still have that record and listened to it recently... and it still beautiful, and it took me right back there to my parents living room in 1967.
I think of course our first experience of something sets the bar, and of course I now have better sounding recordings, but none more meaningful.
For me, it's the gestalt. And to each their own.