Tacet "Tube Only" Recrodings

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Scubadude

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Hi,

Stumbled upon this label claiming to produce music the Tube Only way, or "transistorfrei" as the German's so eloquently calls it.  This is what their home page has to say about it ...

?Tube Only? means: only tube microphones and amplifiers were used for the recording. For transfer to a digital disc (CD, DVD or SACD) a connection to an A/D- or a DSD transformer must be activated. For the LP, however, (except for rare exceptions, justified for musical reasons) the signal is even stored on a tube tape recorder and then mastered with valve equipment, so that one would be right in saying that for the entire production not a single transistor was used.

We have always been especially pleased to receive so much feedback about our Tube Only productions. This motivates us even more to keep working with this technology and rescue it from oblivion. People have told us that the music sounds warmer, without losing any of its TACET brilliance. The timbres glow more. We have also heard that people have the impression of a more homogeneous sound, whatever that is meant to be. So let everyone listen to their own hearts and to the Tube Only recordings and feel something special! Even the sheer joy of this slightly nostalgic outstanding technology can be reason enough to like these productions. Yet what would it all be without the wonderful work of the artists!

Sampling their recording of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra's rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons and I am truck by the grainlessness and purity of tone of this recording.  It may be too syrupy on some systems, but on my completely "rohrfrei" system tilted to the clinical side of neutral it makes for an extremely enjoyable listening experience.  Not a large catalogue (34 titles in total) but well worth exploring.

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