Meet Beau, he's running Tannoy speakers, tube electronics, and vintage turntables
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2020
- Beau lives in, you guessed it, Brooklyn! We had a nice chat about music, gear, and more!
Beau's amps were hand crafted by Steve Berger/AprilSound, home.earthlink.net/~aprilsound/
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I wish this guy lived nearby.. my kinda guy to listen to music with. Good interview
I was thinking that myself. My friend that introduced me to "music" that wasn't on the radio, is just like him...good times
Exactly my thoughts too. Would have loved to carry a single malt/ bourbon bottle to his place ,to sip on whilst listening to and enjoying great music.
Thanks Beau and Steve. Great show.
Love this guy!!!
those tannoys . lovely
Really enjoyed Beau! 1:45 --> 2:32 YES! I definitely relate to this type of 'audiophile'. Thanks to both of you.
Thanks for the channel Steve! I particularly enjoy your conversations with various enthusiasts and their rooms. You’ve got an enviable network of friends!
As of a month ago, I found your channel. You have inspired or rekindled music back into my life. You seem very original as a person-a regular guy with a passion. This interview was so genuine and fresh it was just a nice Sunday morning treat. Thank you Steve, please continue. I am starting to put together two systems using your advice. We will see how they develop and evolve. Good luck and peace to you.
Thanks Steve! I really enjoy your interview sessions.
I love jazz more and more as I get older
Loving these casual audiophile discussions!
Allright Steve-o, great vid, I love these visits to your buddies places to check out their systems. Must be nice to have so many interesting friends with great gear to hang out with, maybe i need to move to Brooklyn!!
I enjoyed this video with Beau. I grew up outside of Austin Tx. and went to a lot of concerts at the Erwin Event Center and bars on Six Street in the early 80's. Saw Stevie and Jimmy Vaughn and many others. A lot of it's a blur in my memory, but.... it's still there :^) and hearing Beau talk briefly about his past there brings it out with a smile. Thanks Steve
Broadcast quality turntable got my attention. Nice guy; agree with the “you can just listen to them both” point of view. Comparing one artist to another as if there is a vertically arranged pecking order is an odd pastime, but I guess that’s how some of us sort out the world around us. Jagger would absolutely not make it as a jazz standards singer, but Sinatra fronting The Rolling Stones would go over as well as William Shatner singing Space Oddity. It’s good that we got to have Sinatra, Stones, Bowie and Star Trek.
What a cool guy! My kind of audiophile!
I like this format for the interviews. Good job Steve
Great video tnx. 👍
I really enjoy your interviews with fellow enthusiasts. I don’t expect you to give a demo of their system as it doesn’t represent what you are hearing but it would be nice if you gave a brief synopsis of what you heard
Great interview!!!
Lot to like there. I used to record vinyl on to HiFi VHS for party tapes. It sounded fantastic, you could load a lot of tunes onto one tape, hit play and make drinks until the next day.
Interesting. Were there specifically "HiFi" VHS tapes? Recorded and played back on a special VHS unit? Curious about the hardware and the process.
@@StellarAudyssey Yes. Just google HiFi VHS and poke around, particularly a couple threads on Reddit that'll pop up.
What he said about LPs.. almost verbatim what I say to people who ask me why I listen to records. Some of my most cherished memories are from when I was a kid, listening to Tommy, or Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down of Broadway", or some YES gatefold album with Roger Dean's art...Pink Floyd with Hipgnosis artwork...man, I would get lost in that stuff for hours and hours!
Great to hear you don't have to argue or rant on about one singer is "better". How do you measure anyway? Its all about enjoying the music and equipment, and for some people, the music hall.
Beau sems like the guy you WANT to hang out with when enjoying music. Great video!
Cool stuff Beau
Another good one!
I have that linn system u left in the lockup, not actually yours still using it 25 Yr later great interview Steve you have interesting friends.
Great interview 😀
Great interview 👍
I LOVE THESE INTERVIEWS !! Steve Guttenberg ..is someone who I met for 7 minutes ..HE is a RockStar ..as far as i am concerned ..BUT just a guy I would like to sit and listen to music with ANYTIME ..
Mark Hall thanks Mark!
Very cool!
Chris Layton (Double Trouble) and I were friends during the time of your Buddy's college days in Austin, Texas. I had a hell of a Music (album) collection and he came over to listen to things I had for about year. Eventually he told me that John Hammond might find me interesting and gave me the number to reach him in NYC. It would be a couple years before I did that though and by that time Mr. Hammond was not well and depressed about his wife dying. Mr. Hammond did like our conversations we spoke a few times & finally I had a Demo I thought he would like I sent. Unfortunately Mr. Hammond had a stroke while my Demo was on route and never recovered dying a few months later.
I've always thought of myself as a writer and it wasn't until I was nearly 50 I had reason to create income to avoid homelessness through music doing gigs around Austin sometime 5 or 6 paid gigs a week (often for Willie's many investments in Austin and eventually the same in Portland Oregon by my persuasiveness.
BTW, I was at the concert with Stevie and the Clash in Austin on the Clashes 1st Tour.
I was also at the Sex Pistols 1st tour in Dallas & Elvis Costello's 1st Tour in Dallas again.
Molly Hatchet reference! Beautiful.
Some stories only happen in big cities. I like Beaus attitude.
I'm no audiophile but the more I watch Steve's videos the more I think I'm becoming one.
I would love to play with those Tannoy speakers!
That's why there are signs: "Do not touch"
Toads Place in New Haven. Great small venue to see your favorite musicians. I’ve scene bands from NRBQ to Method man to Life of Agony.
There's a lot coming from this guy!
This audiophile world is so tiny... Beau! Nice to see you on a screen this time 😬. Looking forward to meeting you in Munich again 🍺👍.
Thanks, Holger. Hoping to be back again this year.
Those speaker cables next to the tube amp- Polk Cobras, I believe. I bought an EQ on Ebay a few years ago and it arrived with two 20 foot cobra cables in the box. I contacted the seller and he just assumed they came with the EQ and I could have them. Took forever to figure out the brand and discovered they are one of the first high end speaker cables. They are certainly worth more than the EQ. Apparently a bit risky to use (considered amp killers). I thought about shortening them, but terminations would be extremely difficult. They are so good looking, I put them in a box frame and hung them in my music room.
Just acquired them at a meeting I attended. Not exactly sure what I plan to do with them.
Steve...you really should feature more Linn gear...both new and / or vintage....beyond the LP12, specifically electronics, streamers and speakers.... I bet there are a lot of your fans who are Linn fans out there.
Those horns haha I keep taking my phones off thinking somebody is outside. I’m in the south man, horns get ya stitches here:)
One evening I heard the best Jimi Hendrix version of Little Wing - played so clean, so perfect. I was thinking I must get that Hendrix record and it was Stevie Ray Vaughn. He was the next Hendrix with serious guitar chops. Same goes for Robin Trower. Great guitarists. Anyway, loved this video Steve and you have a knack for finding interesting guests for videos! Nice job!!
I too thought it was the best version .😁
Funny similarities;
I use(d)
-an empire 208 ( modded by yours truly, motor isolated, hung suspension, original arm plus an SME 2012)
-tube preamp and amp (McIntosh)
-Tannoy 15inch monitor golds GRF
But found the sound too big for my space so now use Maggies.
-started hi-fi listening on a tabletop stereo listening to classical (still my favorite) in my early teens
-but 'theres only 2 types of music, good and bad'
-my favorite speakers from the 60s (my teens) were KEF Codas (T27!), Lowther horns, and a cheap 18 inch square styrofoam planar I
heard in a record shop. I guess that's why I have Maggies now.
- I've built Heathkits, Knight kits and Dynaco.
Would probably be perfectly content with some KEF Codas, my home built sub (Audax), and a Dynaco SCA 35, and my Empire 208 (purchased used for $100 in 1969).
Sound equipment is just satisfying sexy gadgets.. I love it. Walking through a mall in the day guys were just drawn to a store full of audio equipment, at least I was even before I identified as an audio nut:)
I too have a Minus K under my turntable and my phono preamp. The best isolation platforms I've heard, bar none...and yes, it sucks when a shelf fails.
The Minus K is the bomb. I reviewed one for Ian White’s American Wired webzine a while back. Under my then CDP, the sonic improvement was jaw dropping. It smoked the Vibraplane at 1/3 the cost and a hell of a lot easier to set up. Minus K is not an audio company, but a high tech supplier to many aerospace companies, etc.
Thank you Steve!!!!!! I am never agaisnt people making a living but really appreciate the interview being randomly interrupted.
FYI the Cars were terrible in concert but their first album was really good. I even own the SACD of it. One of the most boring bands in concert ever.
Yep much like Led Zep the Cars were awful live but their recordings were great. I saw a Cars cover band in LA years ago that sounded way better than the actual band. Go figure.
I think CD sales would be much better if the packaging was in the same size as LPs.
Great idea! Paper, print and processing have never been cheaper. A die cut paper board could hold the CD and full size cover art. Nice dsonyay!
Try it and find out! Seems to me most people don't care about the package.
Yes...that should have just started like that on the 80s.
Enjoyed it! Very surprised being a Linne, Beau did not buy Linn again after the flood. Seeing meteoric Linn price increases over the years did not help I’m sure.
have to agree with Beau's ideas, have vintage high end, and new budget gear currently. like them all, when they are playing good music ( even some that is recorded poorly ). can be in the car, when a great piece of music comes on, i get a good feeling that comes over me, can compensate for the lack of quality, because i know what it actually sounds like. it's all (mostly) about the music (not the audiophile recordings that were always shoved down my throat when there were hifi shops.) p.s. would love to hear the tannoys.
Come on over. You can help me put the Lps back when I get the shelf fixed. :)
Great interview. Did Beau just use the unusual figure-of-speech @ 47 seconds in "whachamacallit" (or what do you call it I forget) when he momentarily had a lapse of concentration recalling something. That's a real old country, almost gone out of use way of staying on track during a conversation. Completely cool to hear as it immediately brings memories of individuals to the fore and times past. Dublin here.
Guilty as charged. :)
Marine biology was my first love, though I sadly did not pursue it professionally. My kinda guy - Hi Beau!
April Sound 50 DHT amps with Tango iron there from Steve Berger with Elrog tubes.. Derek and the Dominos lp on the floor..
The Ramones...was great.
Some people used to record concerts off of the radio (or live music, whether it was themselves or another band), but there’s no reason nowadays that you can’t digitize anything from your tapes from long ago. Agreed that there’s no point in keeping tapes that you copied that you could easily stream or get the CD for. I’m typing this as I look at my Nakamichi cassette deck which, BTW, sounds better than ever with my upgraded components.
Well for as much fun as it is cleaning and preserving and dustbrushing records and stylii, I prefer making a cassette of two albums or more and throwing it into the ZX9 which frankly sounds as good as my tt or my cd and why not the best cassette recording device.
You need good recording equipment. Otherwise you will permanently mess up the sound.
Some nice gear in there for sure. Every time I watch a clip on one of your audiophile buddies I know I'm either going to be seeing tubes, turntables, Schiit, of full range (or at least big driver) speakers.
Marvelous system! Would LOVE to hear those 50 amps! Beau, plz send them on down to Austin since you are not using them now and I will plug them into my Altec 19's. :) Enjoyed your interview. Also, how do you like your transformer based pre? Is it silver or copper wired?
I can never be truly happy with a digital version of a recording that has an original analog source. It's always lacking.
Good point. To me digital is always lacking no matter how it was originally recorded.
Steve what’s an entry level straight analog tube preamp power amp Turntable set up going to cost today in $2020$
steve, if you don't already know the album--Francis A. and Edward K. check it out.
Looking at quite a lot of those listening rooms, I start to wonder, whether the focus is on proper music reproduction or on playing with some kind of model railway. The rooms are crammed with equipment. They are often to small to allow for a proper bass reproduction. The walls are bare, in this case it seems, that one of the walls is made of concrete, the sideboard is possibly made of steel, so that you won't get a good spatial imaging, given all those reflections you get from these hard surfaces.
Instead of fiddling around with another pure-silver-cable or chasing those very special tubes from dead-stock, you will get better results for the buck by getting a proper planned room treatment (absorbers, diffusors, bass-traps). Just my two cents.
You're rude.
listen to him speak around 5:30-7:00, you can hear how bad the room echo is.
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac - love your channel and have been a subscriber for long time and these series are my favorite but not sure why a valid comment about giving room treatment above other questionable tweaks is rude.
You don't need to wonder. Many people are definitely at least as much into the gadgetry as they are into the sound. And some people are interested in fostering constant gear lust/churn because that pays the bills better than a room getting acoustically sorted out once.
The room is a work in progress. What you can't see is that 3 of the 5 walls in the room are concrete and the ceilings are 18'. I would welcome any suggestions on taming the echo without killing the sound or breaking the bank.
Stevie played Antones and other small venues frequently in the very early 80's. Beau, we may have been there at the same time.
Was in Austin from '81 to '85. Saw SRV a handful of times in small clubs.
@@beauranheim8694 Back when you could still walk around with a drink on 6th street. It is a circus down there today.
Listening With Jack Fun times. Worked at the Party Barn for a bit so I saw a lot of fun drive thru.
@@beauranheim8694 I was 17 in 1981, didn't seem to matter, none of the clubs ever stopped me from going in or buying a beer from a street vendor and walking around while drinking, going to Esther's Follies for a laugh.It was a laid back and fun town back then.We are fortunate to have been there at that time.
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Herbs family owned a store? Would like to hear more about that. Oh have herb back on also, I love that guy:)
Believe, I/we were referring to Fi. Was a storefront in NYC during the early 90s where a group of renegades got together and tried to sell SET and other tube amps to us lesser beings. I was a grad student/beginning a career and couldn't indulge but the few pilgrimages I made down there and to other friends set the tone for my later conversion.
I own, therefore I am
New phone makes incredible video!
Thanks Ken!
Too bad every shot is a closeup.
One question for Steve, when you started playing music did you ever tell your friends to come over and listen to your vinyls?
Fascination Street yes I did, a lot
My first experience with audio was my older neighbor who was single at the time and still living at home with his parents and I experienced my first audiophile with what appeared to me to be a “massive” record collection (to a 10 year old just starting trumpet lessons anything more than 20 records would be huge) and he introduced me to Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” for the first time. My audiophile experiences were born that day out of the wonder and awe of that first audio experience in 1963. I must have spoken of it to my Dad because not long after he came home with an RCA Stereo with the fold down turntable and detachable speakers and Dad “subscribed” to the Columbia Record Club From his TV Guide advertising and a future audiophile was evolving.
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac Did working in stereo sales turn you into an Audiophile, or did being a audiophile get you into sales?
These Tannoy Glenair 15 go down to one ohm at about 21khz. I was very surprised these are driven bij a SET tube amplifier. These are hard to drive speakers. The statement in the interview was that these SET amplifiers puts out 4 watts per channel. It ain’t for nothing that Tannoy advices amplifiers starting from 50 watts per channel for these speakers. Next to that the amplifier used should be ‘fast’ sounding so needs speed and also needs sophistication. If you drive them well they sound extremely airy, bold, big, larger then life, agile, musical, emotional, etc.
Nice guy, hey Steven are you going to CES?
Gabriel Garcia Thanks, no I haven’t gone to CES in 10 years
I use fioo e17 dac and marantz 5005 amp.. am i audiophile
Yes you are!!
Is it me or those into vinyl, tube amp and high efficiency speakers are really into the Music! Nice system. Just that the good Tannoy starts at a high price more than most, tsk.
gang gang
You only interview people in new York?
basspig Since I live here in New York that’s where most of the interviews take place. But I do interview people at shows outside of New York. And some people have made videos for me who don’t live in New York.
Tape would be fun, if the music I like were available. Let’s say it is a very tactile experience. More so than vinyl. You can feel it in your fingers after you thread your reel to reel. I have always thought digital sounds better recorded to reel to reel. Especially back in the day when digital sucked. For me, pre 2000, give or take. New R to R is not for us mere mortals. At a tape speed of 15 ips on a two track deck, some of the recording take two ten inch tapes, cost around $500.00.
Could pass for John Malkovich's younger brother.
Dean Martin was more enjoyable to listen to over old blue eyes or Mr Bennet for me personally he had more "it" factor.
music is good or not. digital and analogue are different not better then each other. I produce music and I do love the sound of analog but im all digital and use analogue emulation plugins. But if I had money I would go analogue but the difference isn't big enough to argue about which is why I like this guy as it should be about the music. Analogue is great and I like the physical but I still enjoy music on digital and I actually only have 3 ads left in my possession so for me its just about the speakers or headphone quality. I ignore all discriptions the companies blur out and just go straight to stats of the watts, freq range etc. My ear buds are Sony and have a range of 5hz-26khz range which is bigger then some so called higher specs brands which means I can hear subs below 30hz as the roll off of the headphones are beyond the human hearing range.
Oh, the beard is new. I wonder how it sounds?
Crinkly.
You buy a DRAGON and record the 45 rpm double LPs onto cassette.
ZX9 hard to find but so fine when Hermanized I love mine. Taking this Tull album as we speak putting the vinyl on metal and I can make it easily sound better than the seriously under level recording smack that level up and always the left channel needs a little extra boost yet and why is that.
Lots of nice kit but the jumble does my head in. Guess I must have OCD.
Schiit Audio box!
Saga preamp. Was a placeholder while I was getting the Bent Audio TAP into the system
I cringed when he said his albums
fell from a wall shelf. 😱 Mine are on floor standing units. He never
finished the story about his Dads
Mcintosh gear. Would be cool if
he still had it. My brother has my
Dads old system, 60 years old and
still making none audiophiles sit
up and listen. 😎
All LPs have been reported safe. Mac gear was sold many moons again when he didn't want to deal with the upkeep.
Really frustrating to see nothing but close-ups of everything. Would like to see the room setup and view from the main listening position.
Music lover vs audiophile?
Music lover -- you spent more on your music library.
Audiophile -- you spent more on your equipment.
You can enjoy both
@@zogzog1063 True, and most people do; but I have no trouble imagining a system with a $50K turntable and $80K speakers and goodness knows how much for the rest of the equipment, yet where would you store or have time to listen to a quarter million dollar music library?
Don't keep track but if you include all the ripped CDs you don't see I am probably around 50/50 over a lifetime in the hobby.
Attention: Speakers to be banned in all households for stereotyping
most recorded music sounds nothing like the recordings
ron carter piccolo I was there live and bot the album it's close miked and sounds pretty dam close to that night in sweet basils standing in the doorway you don't want to pay for drinks you stand and listen for nada
@@JohnDoe-np3zk wasn't there but I love that album!
He sounds and looks like a balding Chris Christie.
The over the top audiophile bar was raised so high with your Joe the retired cop video, it’s all downhill from there, but it’s always fun to see what’s out there.
First :)
All cds should be in a cardboard slipcase,fuckin new who cd in crap plastic,aii the spindles where broken
I wouldn't compare Jagger to Sinatra, to me that would be a bit like comparing a hockey player to a golfer (exaggerating of course) - but Steve, somewhat like you, for the most part I always felt Sinatra was somewhat overrated, at best, his intonation is barely average for a top tier singer, which is the area of his singing that has always bugged me, but regardless and perhaps a bit like you, I certainly appreciate him for all the other great aspects of his singing and I'm certainly glad that he brought all that work to us, the music world wouldn't be the same without his influence.
Marine Biologist for NYC? I guess Marine Life in Central Park is endangered! So are the Humans. 😮😉😂
Look at a map and you will notice that most of NYC is water. No marine life in Central Park, sea level hasn't made it there quite yet.
Nice but he insulted a lot of Scottish people by saying it was made in England 🙂
Like the Wadia the rest is bad.....
It's yours for the right price! :)
"Vinyl is great cause you have to physically get up from the sofa" is said by people who can't hear the differences. Can't relate to these people.
Edit: Finished the video and I'm cool with this guy. He gets a pass.