Playback technique

Multimedia fun

Passing the gallery

Lead headings: Andrey Presnov

Magazine: N10 (154) 2010

Everything old can suddenly become new. In the 1990s, for example, a mechanical clock, nearly disappearing under the onslaught of quartz, experienced a rebirth. The same thing happens with tube electronics and turntables these days.

For a long time, audio and video equipment manufacturers have promoted values ​​such as functionality and miniature. We are used to the fact that the smaller the device and the more opportunities it has, the better it is. However, in the wake of the general interest in vintage and retro, these parameters lose their meaning. Very old-fashioned things are becoming popular, the appearance of which causes nostalgia for times when the new record Pink Floyd or Deep Purple was the highest value. These are tube amplifiers and turntables. This technique (originally from the 70s) looks extremely conservative, often takes up a lot of space and is unable to satisfy all the multimedia needs of its owner at once. But, being staged at home, she discovers in her master a real music lover, a person who treats music as something alive. And, although the difference in sound between high-quality digital and tube amplifiers is almost elusive, I still want to make a choice in favor of the latter. The lamp gives a feeling of special sound, so many well-known companies are now returning to its use.

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