Pedro shows off his system with Quads, Klipsch, Pass Labs, Audio Research and more
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Pedro Diaz, www.pedrordiaz.com/about_pedro...
Check out Pedro’s Spanish language audiophile TH-cam channel, / @deaudiofilosylocos
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I have to say , one my favorite of your guest audiophiles! Well informed, amusing...and genuine.
Wow. That mono thing makes total sense with old recordings. And it makes highend so much more affordable 🙈
Not really. It is more of a luxury now days.
Yet another interesting audiophile interview. Luv the cartridge collection!
I would have liked to have heard some discussion about his room treatments.
When someone goes to that level of effort, it probably means that he is more than a casual audiophile.
Lots of your subscribers would probably benefit from room treatments, and do not realize it. If your interviews would include a portion of time discussing the sound improvement, and the cost, and what is involved in undertaking the effort, it might inspire others to consider adding panels, etc, and end up hearing significant improvement in their listening room.
Agreed as I am researching room treatments right now for a difficult room
Adding room treatments improved my hifi as much if not more then any speaker or component upgrade!
Right? Especially as his listening room seems to open into another room. I was wondering how he deals with that.
My next components are my wall panels, rugs and upholstered furniture. I am not planning to buy and electronics until I buy these three items.
Awesome system. Very intrigued by his mono set up. First time I’ve ever seen anyone with a cartridge collection. Just incredible!
Everything, not just violin, jumps out from a Klipsch. Awesome setup and a great interview.
Great painting also.
This healthy Benicio del Toro looking dude has some killer audio toys. He is the real deal, a musician and an audiofile. Excelennt interview Steve!
Saludos desde Honduras a Pedro. Excelent i
Padro’s cool! Any person who’s 10 year old daughter has her own turntable will forever hold a special place in my heart. All 10 year olds should have their own turntable. I subscribed, cannot t wait to check it out. Great interview Steve.👍👍👍
seeing these guys and these systems, just makes me happy
Cool guy, thanks for the tour.
HI STEVE AND ALL FANS. IT'S PEDRO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OVERWHELMING SUPPORT. MY SUBS BASE HAS JUST TRIPLED IN A DAY! I'M JUST A GUY WHO NEEDS THERAPY. AND STAY TUNED, I ACTUALLY INTERVIEWED STEVE WHILE HE WAS IN MY HOUSE. HIS SPANISH IS GREAT 😂.
steve best interview yet thanks . I had the pleasure of meeting pedro today and a even greater pleasure of hearing his amazing system. It was without the pass amp and the newer quads he had the older rebuilt quad and the rogue tube amp running. all i can say is it was amazing, the sound wrapped around you with a incredible wide soundstage i was shocked . what was even more incredible is how hospitable and humble he is, a true gentleman and a lover of music and sound .
Great interview - pushed all the buttons for this old-school audiophile.
Mr. Diaz did not brag - but to make a living playing a fearsomely difficult double reed woodwind is fearsomely impressive accomplishment.
I'll speculate that he has a second LaScala in hiding.
And a request/suggestion:
How cool would it be to conduct another interview regarding his recording projects??
Outstanding interview! Great stuff!
Great interview and beautiful system, thanks for sharing.
It's always interesting and amazing to hear from someone who's "all in."
Great video!
Love this interview, Pedro is Awesome!
That was terrific Steve. I know people , & Pedro is a true gem of a guy that I would love to hang out with, what a gentleman!
Pedro is great. Love his system. Obviously, very few people have real mono set ups. Very cool...
Thanks, Steve and Pedro for the great interview. 🎶🔊🙂
Fascinating!
Anyone with ESLs is a person of taste and distinction in my book
Steve, your work it is incredible.
Pedro! What a great guy and musician! Also a good photographer!
Great episode 👌
That dude redoing cabinets for home speakers is living the best life. Love what that guy is doing.
That was my dream to refurb speakers for people, but I was told there is no market for that...I wouldn't make $$ blah blah.. Same people who's only stereo is the factory crap that came in their car that is 15 years old.
Plus up in North here, there isn't even a stereo shop. Best buy is it!
Thanks Steve - I love these types of your vids, so interesting to see what other audiophiles are listening too and Pedro is no exception - his equipment and his audiophile philosophy were very interesting.
Really enjoyed that. Pedro is cool.
What a charming cat! Super cool video - amazing equipment.
One of your best interviews yet Steve!
Keep goin man.
Nice guy. A discerning enthusiast.
What is missing, for me, is when you interview guests with multiple amps/turntables is more information. As an example when you go through his amps I want to know what does he use with the Rouge or when does he use the Rouge vs the other amps. If I wanted to just know model numbers of amps and turntables I would go to Wikipedia.
The Nakamichi is for recording double 45s. There is over 400 on Acoustic Sounds website. The peak of analog unless you go reel to reel which gets really expensive.
That's a nice Nak supposedly one of the nicest bass reproduction. Anyway vinyl is quite labor intensive I record everything from vinyl to the Nak ZX-9 that was recently Willy Hermanized. I find recordings sound better than source most of the time. Cassettes are coming back for a reason, because I am all in. Just got a sweet Nak 550 what a unit.
Great info! I must try
I like how the cartridges bobble
Like a jedi
Nice guy and a nice system!
Very friendly guy, very interesting equipment....!
Hostias, Pedro! That's quite a system you've got, hombre! Very impressive.
Those La Scala's are so pretty! (Correction: That La Scala) Thank you for this "up close and personal". Keep them coming!
Some great gear there. I can vouch for the Pass 150.8
Pedro has it good!
An sl 1210 and a gyro se!.... Wonderful! 2 of my favourite decks
I own some early acoustically recorded 78s which are played on acoustic phonograph. Recorded without electricity played back without. In between phonographs now sold some gear, (mistake) and now looking for another record player. I relate to to Pedro's love of mono, about the physical presence of the music from this technology. What it lacks in some areas is outweighed by the amazing presence of these old acoustic recordings.
I am still a fan for the double pair of the KLH-9’s driven by OTL tube electronics and the Berning TF-10 preamp as it was the only setup capable of reproducing the classical double bass without sounding like a ball park Hammond organ playing the seventh inning stretch. One of my favorite test material was the Ditterdorf double bass concerto that I referred to as my “Eine Kleiner Klipsch Killer Musik!”
Great episode. I love this dude's coil/cartridge collection
good info on why to have more than one cartridge.
Nice to see an SL-1200 in there :)
enjoyed this interview... I have not thought about ever having a system that plays mono but your thoughts and approach is intriguing...if I ever get a chance to listen to a mono system, I will take a time out and have a listen...thanks, peace...PS... I turned away from my screen briefly and returned to see you holding a tray of cartridges...at first glance, I thought they were little carvings of people... I had a good laugh at myself...
I will be happy to buy your Nakamichi. Nice system!
How unusual for a real musician to be an audiophile. I worked with many musicians as recording engineer and none owned so much as a stereo system. My clients were listening on iMac computers most instances.
That's the reasing why we have a lot of bad-sounding recordings, totally compressed, etc, etc....if musicians were audiophiles or at least cared a little bit about the sound of their own records, we would have much more records with better sound. But the only time 90% of the musicians listened to their own records is thru NS 10 or KRKs...go figure.
"So......How did you get this way"? lol. I used to love Stereo Review too.
I guess if your in an orchestra, your getting paid son! Nice stuff
So, to get the Mono sound, with 2 speakers just move the balance all the way to one, or disconnect one speaker. Thanks. I may try that and see if I can tell the difference based on a mono recording.
neat man. very likable. cool history. 👍
Unlike many of us, this guy DOES music as well as listens to it. He knows what voices and instruments are supposed to sound like. Plus, he's a musician in one of the premier opera orchestras of the world. In short, he's got street cred. I agree with him about voices heard in mono recordings. They sound richer and fuller, although I listen with two speakers on a stereo system, not over a dedicated mono system.
Very, very cool guy!
Would be great if your interviews included listening sessions of the setups. I am sure the owners wouldn’t mind...
Great video Steve. Thank you .
And I thought I was nuts having ten cartridges! They are fun to collect as they are relatively cheap and very small.
Makes me want to get that Technics to try some of my old cartridges. In particular the MicroAcoustics 2002E with an unused stylus and an old Grado 4 channel!
That’s a sweet cartridge collection. I wish I could do that with my vpi turntable. Except it would require extra tone arm$, not just head shells.
I think this gentleman has gone from chronic Audiophilia bordering on full out Audiomania in a very nice way
Excellent interview Steve, but the part of this video that is super interesting to me is where your guest was displaying his cartridge collection. Where do you get finger tightening screws for turntables? I would love to get my hands on a few sets of those. Cheers!
I think that he meant to say that the AKG carts are Moving Iron not Moving Magnet. Great video.
The Nagatron bears a strong resemblance to current Nagaoka cartridges, especially in its design. Nagatron-Nagaoka used to manufacture OEM but now only produce their own brand.
Nice, but since the room is so important to any music playback system, it would have been nice to turn the camera around the room, and especially show the system from the seating.
Had Empire, Pickering and A-T in the 80s.
Killer system.
Nice dog cage
Steve, I can't stand any video over 10 minutes long...I wish this one was 2 hrs long!!!!
Thank you Pedro Diaz and Steve for this one.
Yes, Steve, you totally neglected his room treatments! One of your 10 commandments was to fix your room, and finally here's a guy that has put some time & effort into it, in a seemingly DIY low-tech way. Also, I would have liked for you to pan around hid room a bit, to see his listening position. Please show the listening position for your interviews of other people's systems.
Funny how he seems to never show the listening area.
Does anyone know the brand of pc that he is using for roon? I couldn’t make it out in the video. Thanks
www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/audio-server/products/sonictransporter-i9-optical?variant=31098467156037
Was that a Schiit Mani I saw next to the PS Audio preamp?
Guess so.
I feel like I’m the only person born in the 2000’s, 2000 specifically that actually watches & loves this guys videos & videos similar to this, audiophile stuff you know, it’s a nice hobby, my setup is the focal elex & xduoo xd-05 plus but plan to upgrade my amp & dac
I also have Sennheiser HD 6XX’s, I bought all my stuff myself. it was a dream to have a hifi setup for almost 4 years always watching people’s videos on stuff & now I have my own 😌. I love it
Thanks Mabel, but I have thousands of viewers around your age.
Steve Guttenberg Audiophiliac do you? okay that’s cool. I thought I was a crazy person but your videos are awesome, I watched one & fell in love
A musician with Quads. No surprises there. Every home should have a pair of some sort. Mine does (57s). I also rotate mine in the system. Pedro you really must try Soundsmith. I wouldn't use anything else.
I had a subscription to Stereo Review.
Where are the audiophiles of a different shade.
Nice guy, really passionate about music!
What? Not gonna mention the Schiit Mani phono pre?
Gracias Pedro and Steve! Pedro: Nice channel / Me gusta tu canal!
A couple of great images of how our forefathers listened to mono Quad and Klipsch here: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/single-speaker-recommedation-for-mono-listening.508601/
Someone stomping above their heads at 6:35?
Rattle does speak in English in Pedro's interview and it's well worth watching - the 2nd part is more Rattle, so don't be put off by mostly Spanish content 1st part.
Querido Pedro Díaz, olvidaste la parte más importante: Ballfinger M 002 P :)
Sell me that Nakamichi cassette deck!
Sure is a journey tho
Sorry 😢😢😢😢😢
He's not a dinosaur for playing CDs...he's a dinosaur for playing vinyl.
What a nice guy! And I would take the advise of a real musician about Equipment far more serious than the so called experts Best Thing would be a designer who is at the same time a fine musician.
Stevie G, ...... are you bumping your mic? ..... lots of little, tight booms in the audio
OK, Pedro is a professional Concert Musician, correct ? Then his sense and expectation of the performance of his gear comes, literally, from a trained ear.....too bad my Spanish isn't quite good enough for his own YT channel
How does a musician afford such gear?
He plays in a world-class orchestra...
Where is Pedro from? South America for sure, I bet Argentina, Chile or Uruguay, I don't think Mexico or Caribbean..
On his website, and in a few other locations it says Puerto Rico
Sebastián Demaría he is a native of Puerto Rico
gotham61 he from Puerto Rico
Sebastián Demaría check his web site , it states where he is from
@@mikem4214 Oh, I see..
if i had been successful in life I would be that guy with equipment... worse!
ironically having been a commercial metal industrial recycler and recently had time to review 'tube equipment' know that I destroyed 10s of 1,000 of amps in my life. Some of them now worth enough to have made me rich.
Pedro why is your beard grey yet your hair is jet black. 🤔
Dare I say? Too much money for stuff you cannot have enough time to listen to
Soory Steve but I have to give you a thumbs down on this interview simply because I am not interested in seeing or listening to someone elses equipment that I can never aspiire to own or have the dedicated listening room for. I am happy for him to be able to do it but I am more interested in hearing from you about equiment and your impression of. I do not mean to be selfish in any way, but I simply do not care what someone else has.
I am fascinated by passive aggressive people. Thank you for playing. Unfortunately these are probably about 1/3 of Steve's interviews, checking out gear and never playing any music of course. But if you aren't into vinyl in particular and old cartridges this one probably not for you.
@@JohnDoe-np3zk Actually I have been collecting records since the 1960's and they are my favorite and largest part of my music collection.
@@johnbartel5229 have you seen Joe's turntable in progress? That video might appeal to you.