{"id":11058,"date":"2020-11-05T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:29:24","slug":"old-school-audiophiles-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/05\/old-school-audiophiles-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Old School Audiophiles Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivetraveller.com\/news\/a-new-generation-of-music-fans-is-building-stereos-from-scratch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Executive Traveller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This weekend, why not build a stereo from scratch?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The old-fashioned appeal of audio kits never goes away \u2013 especially during a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivetraveller.com\/authors\/bloomberg-pursuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Pursuits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vintage Stereo Commercials And More\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUURuA17n5E?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad Breedlove never considered himself an audiophile. The project manager for an Indianapolis-area industrial piping company has been collecting vinyl for about five years, and the records in frequent rotation on his midrange Audio-Technica turntable include the well-worn now-classics that belonged to his parents when he was growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a good stereo system &#8211; but not obsessively so &#8211; that includes SVS Ultra Bookshelf speakers and an SVS SB 4000 subwoofer powered by a Schiit Vidar amp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, however, Breedlove took a step into the deeper waters of the sonically serious and ordered a US$369 Reduction 1.1 phono preamplifier from Bottlehead, an audio kit maker in Washington state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it arrived, the box contained slabs of unfinished alder wood, carefully packed circuit boards, vacuum tubes, and bags full of capacitors and resistors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he could turn on his preamp, he would have to put it together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the golden age of hi-fi in the 1950s and \u201960s, building your own stereo equipment was almost as common as buying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entire magazines dedicated to the craft were full of black-and-white halftone depictions of Brylcreemed dads hunched over disemboweled sound systems from companies such as Heathkit and Dynaco, soldering irons in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, it\u2019s often the warm glow of vacuum tubes on Instagram \u2013 and a surfeit of time \u2013 that draws in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.executivetraveller.com\/news\/a-new-generation-of-music-fans-is-building-stereos-from-scratch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Executive Traveller<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Executive Traveller This weekend, why not build a stereo from scratch? The old-fashioned appeal of audio kits never goes away \u2013 especially during a pandemic. By\u00a0Bloomberg Pursuits Brad Breedlove never considered himself an audiophile. The project manager for an Indianapolis-area industrial piping company has been collecting vinyl for about five years, and the records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}