Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
But I have to say they are absolutely magical with music from the 50s and early 60s. I'm not quite sure how to articulate this without sounding goofy, but they just make music from that era sound fantastic and...authentic. I wasn't around then, but I'm old enough to remember how music sounded on the hi-fi systems of that era when my older relatives played their records. Think lots of brown veneer with yellowish-brown speaker grilles from the pre-disco era, and you'll have the image of the equipment I'm talking about. They sound like that.
I know, what a surprise that music from that era played on the equipment of that era makes it sound like it did in that era - but it's hard to describe how cool it is. I'm not old enough that I have nostalgia for those early days of rock & roll, but I am old enough to appreciate lucking into the opportunity to hear what people were hearing when rock and stereo were still pretty revolutionary.
Now I'm really curious to know whether the PortaPro has been tuned differently over the years, or if they still have their original sound. And if so, is there anything about their tuning that would be distinctive to their birth era. Since I do have nostalgia for the 80s, I'm totally looking forward to finding out when they get here.
In the meantime, I think I may have found a little hobby that I can indulge in when the wife is treasure hunting (and a much cheaper one than buying every single Massdrop collaboration headphone) :)