Downteching / uptechning
It is a personal pleasure to mix old appliances with modern technology. I
hate the word obsolete when it comes to devices that once represented
the best of technology at the time and are now discarded on the rubbish
heap. Often there is more to find behind the label ''obsolete''.
I recently ran into a very nice tube radio from Philips, Dutch built from 1948,
completely surrounded by a near perfect bakelite cabinet. By making a
small technical adjustment, the radio now works on bluetooth and I can play my
Spotify playlists via my phone through a 70-year-old speaker!
And how beautiful that sounds! Nice high and clean to very low. All this comes from just one speaker. It is a strange thought that the radio only now shows, in terms of audio dynamics, what it was already capable of 80 years ago, were it not for the fact that the sound carriers at the time (records, radio) when this radio was sold did not have the dynamics that it has now. It is a wealth to have this ancient sound source in the studio!
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