October 1, 2015

  • Simaudio 750D, Part 11

    Richard Marx's Rush Street came out in Fall 1991, in time for the holiday buying season. BUT. Thanks to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the grunge revolution had begun, thus drowning out adult contemporary.
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    Still, for anyone still listening, "Hazard" was perhaps Marx's most serious song to date. Although Nebraskans probably hated it, it did garner critical praise.

    In the summer of '92, before MLB had interleague play, we saw the video for "Take This Heart," which featured the Oakland A's and Chicago Cubs in the World Series. Uh, why are both teams wearing their home whites? Uh, why is the Cubs' home game played at Detroit's Tiger Stadium? Why are Marx and his band playing at the Oakland Coliseum stadium [I live just two BART stations from here, which is now O.co], and not Wrigley Field or some other Chicago venue? Whoa, is that a young and clean-shaven Greg Maddux, still with the Cubs?!

    It's the 9th inning. The Cubs have two outs, and Marx, the batter, is in an 0-2 count against A's closer, Dennis Eckersley. Eck shakes off the catcher, throws a fastball, which Marx hits out, over Rickey Henderson. Okay, this was at the pre-Mt. Davis Oakland Coliseum. As the home team, the A's still would have gotten to bat in the bottom of the 9th. Still, it was a cool dream.

    Incidentally, my friend Larry was at the 8/31/92 A's game, where Jose Canseco was in the on-deck circle, but, without any announcement, was pulled. This was before internet and cell phones. Larry and fans did not know that Canseco had been traded.
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    Used on the Simaudio 750D, the (Cooked) Pranawire Vajra with Oyaide M1/F1 plugs blows up Mt. Davis, returns us to the summer of '92.
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    You might not need to have the strength of Jose Canseco, but the Vajra is heavy, so use care, when situating it on the 750D. If you do use the Vajra, you will experience a refreshing and long-awaited lack of sonic negatives. There is no:

    • altering of detail
    • shrinkage or warping of the recorded soundstage
    • bloat
    • artificial warmth
    • alteration of tonal balance
    • funhouse mirror imaging
    • veiling
    • gumming up of movement
    • free notes

    The 750D is now free to read/decode whatever you feed it.