A time machine worthy of Marty McFly By Steve Graham Let’s deal with the name and get it out of the way. If your mother-in-law, pastor, imam, rabbi or your non-audiophile buddy drops by and asks what the stylised “S” stands for on the front panel, you need to have a story ready. You won’t want to risk offending anyone – or in the case of your audio buddy, you’ll want to keep him from taking the piss. Stanley, maybe? Sam? Supersonic? You figure it out. Me, I don’t mind a little good-natured vulgarity. To deny myself would mean giving up my Billy Connelly recordings. Why a time machine, you ask? While I write this, I’m listening to digitization of some analog tapes from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Lame, maybe, but the JIL has captured back-to-the-future moments for me that would have been lost in a few years due to tape deterioration. The JIL has preserved their smooth and propulsive analog quality, even at the non-optimal 48 kHz sample rate. Equipment used: My usual Audio Research line stage and power amp, PS Audio AC Regenerator, PSB Platinum T8 speakers all connected up with my usual ragtag collection of [...]
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