V70 SERIES - SOME HISTORY
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V70-V72-V72a-V72b-V74-V74a-V77-V77b-V78 ...V76 ...+ THIS COMBINATION OF FAIRCHILD & V-MODULES BECAME A STANDARD IN THE 50's & 60's IN GERMANY AND THE U.K. ( EMI/ABBEY ROAD ) - THEN THE V-SOUND SPILLED OVER TO AMERICAN SHORES.
THE TAB/ TELEFUNKEN TUBE COMPRESSORS U73, U73a & U73b ARE FROM THE SAME STABLE AS THE V-SERIES AND ARE OF JUST THE SAME HIGH OCTANE MUSICAL SOUND CALIBER. A RECENT TEST IN LOS ANGELES SHOWED DRAMATICALLY - AFTER LITERALLY TRYING 90% OF ALL NEW TUBE COMPRESSORS ON THE MARKET - THAT THE TUBE ALONE IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO A GREAT MUSICAL SOUND. IT TAKES MORE BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE THAN A DIY TRAINING COURSE FOR A DESIGNER TO SET A SOUND LANDMARK FOR RECORDING & MASTERING STUDIOS. EXPERIMENTATION WITH VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF IRONS / METALS FOR THE AUDIO TRANSFORMERS IS A MAJOR STARTING FACTOR.
GOING WITH THE HYPE OF THE INDUSTRY FOR TUBE EQUIPMENT AT THE MOMENT IT MIGHT BE PERFECT TIMING TO MARKET A "TUBE CIGARETTE LIGHTER" BECAUSE OF ITS "WARMTH".
SEE..COMING SOON: INTERVIEW WITH THE INVENTOR OF U73 AND V76
TIME TRAVEL - BACK & FORTH :
ALTHOUGH THE ORIGINAL BLUEPRINTS OF ELECTRONIC DESIGN GO BACK TO THE V41 MIC PREAMP OF
THE 30's AND 40's PRE-WAR ERA, THESE UNITS HAVE NOT BEEN SURPASSED SONICALLY IN THEIR
FIELD BY TODAY'S STANDARDS AND ARE READY TO SAIL "UNTOUCHED" INTO THE MILLENIUM
BY GIVING INSPIRATION TO NEW DESIGNERS WHO ARE TRYING TO CLOSE THE TUBELESS GAP OF THE
LAST 30 YEARS IN THE AUDIO MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY BY CUTTING THEIR TEETH IN THE OLD
MASTERS' PRESENCE - THE SOURCE OF AUDIO WISDOM & MUSICAL PLEASURE ALREADY EXISTING
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ONLY BECAUSE UNLIMITED AMOUNTS OF FINANCES WERE AVAILABLE TO THE GERMAN BROADCAST ORGANISATION DURING THE POST-WAR YEARS COULD THE ENORMOUS SCIENTIFIC FORCES BE COUPLED WITH THE SKILLS >SEE ALSO UNDER WHITECOATS / ENDANGERED SPECIES< AND PRODUCTIVE EAGERNESS OF POSTWAR GERMANY IN THE SPIRIT OF THE "LATE GREAT" GERMAN ROCKET MASTER WERNHERR VON BRAUN WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AT THE REICHS-RAKETENVERSUCHSANSTALT OF PEENEMUENDE WAS LATER "ADAPTED " BY NASA TO SEND ROCKETS TO THE MOON AND BEYOND - A FOURTH GENERATION FOLLOW-UP TO HIS INFAMOUS AND SOMEWHAT NASTY LITTLE 1940's DEVICE CALLED THE "V2" WHICH WAS NOT MEANT TO EXACTLY IMPROVE RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND ENGLAND BACK THEN.....
AS WITH NASA AND RELATED BUDGETS FOR SPACE RESEARCH - NO SINGLE COMPANY IN THE GERMAN AUDIO FIELD WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PRODUCE SUCH QUALITY AND SELL AT SUCH A HIGH PRICE (FOR EXAMPLE A V72 AT THAT TIME COST 2 MONTHS' AVERAGE EARNINGS OF A WORKMAN) WITHOUT THE NATIONWIDE DEMAND FOR TOP QUALITY BROADCAST / STUDIO SOUND AND RELATED FINANCIAL BACKING IN A PROFESSIONAL ZONE WHERE THE USE OF NEUMANN CONDENSER MICS BECAME AN EXPECTED NATIONWIDE STANDARD.
LONDON - ENGLAND 1967 : WHEN GEORGE MARTIN STARTED TO USE V72
& V76 AMPS FOR THE BEATLES "SARGEANT PEPPER" IN CONNECTION WITH A CUSTOMISED
EMI DESK DESIGN.....THESE MODULES CERTAINLY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED ANYMORE BY THE
HEAVIES & THEIR FRIENDS IN AMERICA WHERE MOST V-EAGLES LANDED IN THE 80's & 90's -
SOME OF THEM TOUCHED DOWN EVEN FURTHER IN JAPANESE AND KOREAN STUDIOS FOR ENCOUNTERS AT
HI-FI CONNOISEURS' SOUND ENVIRONMENTS TO KEEP GLOWING. IRONICALLY, MOST OF TODAYS USERS OF
THE V-SERIES HAVE NOT EVEN HEARD (YET) THE ORIGINAL QUALITY OF A NEW UNIT WITH NEW
SELECTED COMPONENTS. BUT STILL... IT'S NOT TOO LATE - SEE PAGE V74
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IN THE MEANTIME -THE GERMAN RECORDING & BROADCAST SCENE - EAGER AS EVER - AND IN ORDER TO BE AT THE CUTTING EDGE - HAS KINDLY FOLLOWED THE PIED PIPER'S TUNE TO DANCE TO THE LATEST ( NON-DISCRETE ) TRANSISTORIZED & DIGITIZED SOUNDS, BEING SEDUCED BY SMALLER, LIGHTER AND "EVERYTHING IN ONE CHIP" WONDERS. THIS CAN BE DEMONSTRATED BY CRUISING ALONG THE AUTOBAHN AND TUNING INTO ANY ONE OF THE - ESPECIALLY NEWER - PRIVATE RADIO STATIONS WITH NO HISTORY OF SOUND AWARENESS OR CONCIOUSNESS WHO COULD NOT EVEN BE CAUGHT DEAD TAKING QUALITY OF SOUND INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN SHOPPING FOR EQUIPMENT TO ENTERTAIN THEIR AUDIENCE. IN CONTRAST TO THIS THERE MIGHT BE A PREDICTABLE SPREAD OF AN "UNDERGROUND" SCENE COMING UP ANY DAY REDISCOVERING THE EXCITING FIRES OF "UNLIMITED" HARMONIC OVERTONES AND SPATIAL VIBRATIONS OF "GRANDMOTHER'S RADIO" WITH GLOWING TELEFUNKEN TUBES - ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE SERIOUS STUDIO GEAR ( IF NOT EVEN TRASHED ) HAS ALREADY LEFT THE COUNTRY A WHILE AGO TO PLEASE OTHER -WORLDWIDE- EARS WITH A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT SONIC HORIZON ALREADY DEVELOPED.
TO BUILD A V72 OR V76 NEW TODAY WOULD STILL BE POSSIBLE AS ORIGINAL TOOLS EXIST IN THE POSSESSION OF CERTAIN COLLECTORS BUT ONE WOULD HAVE TO TRADE IN A 1966 CORVETTE STINGRAY FOR A SIXPACK OF NEW V76 UNITS .> SEE INTERVIEW WITH THE INVENTOR OF THE V76 -COMING SOON<.
