Do you want to find out why horn speakers, tubes, and Japanese amplifiers are a big deal?
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- Herb and I met in the 1990s and became fast friends. On this episode we nail down how it happened. Also, we have a special Herb announcement near the end of this episode.
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We need a sixty minute video of Herb's wonderful stories.
I could listen to them all day...
yes!
Herb needs his own channel. The Highwater Sound video is epic. I’ve watched it a dozen times.
I’m a simple man. I see Herb, I press like!
An affable man is you?
Having both of you in the shot at the same time is great. You should do every interview this way.
Great idea.
Agree
Watching these 2 together, and watching some of the younger reviewers and their similar enthusiasm, gives me hope for our hobby. thank you, Steve and Herb, for bringing the joy of audio to a new generation.
I love the videos with Herb. I think the only thing better would be a video of you two sitting next to each other listening and talking about equipment.
You guys have a way to draw us in and make us part of a special chat. Love your duo routine. Can't wait to see the next one! Thanks Steve for sharing your passion!
Always a pleasure to hear the two of you together (especially when you'retalking about two of my favorite subjects: tubes and horns). Thanks, Steve!
That was awesome as usual.
You guys are a treat to listen too and love your passion for audio.
It's contagious!
I love this conversation. It sounds like a conversation between two intelligent surgeons. Looks like a cool friendship!!
This was FANTASTIC to watch! THANK YOU!
I really really wish I could meet Herb and host him at my house where I could play my horn speakers with an all DHT tube system. Herb if you ever visit India, Id love to host you!! Cheers.
Awesome conversation between friends. Hopefully a part ll
Pick three people you'd like to listen to in a bar all night - Steve Guttenberg, Herb Reichert and Michael Fremer would be hard to beat!
Agreed with those three (and a whole host more - if we're dreaming, i.e. Lincoln, FDR Obama, Neil Young, Springsteen, and on and on...). Although, while I'm appreciating the post above, I'd have to have a long, long evening because I'd have to dedicate good periods of time to just and only listening to music with them (without the talking) and then intersperse the listening with the talking about it. This all would of course require some Scotch. (Which by the way, if you dampen a rag with single malt and wipe down your speaker cables, the sound becomes deeper and richer.)
regarding audio gear; Andrew Jones, Nelson Pass, Sean Fowler.
No disrespect to Fremer (I'm a big fan of his), but, I'd swap out Fremer with the late Art Dudley.
@@zippymagee Had dinner with AJ last year. High energy talker. Very smart. Knows his trade. Nelson Pass- Zoom interviewed him for an hour for our club last April. Very careful wordsmith. Very intelligent. Great stories.
@@recordhead Ah, Art of course - might have to make room for all four.
Wonderful ! Always a pleasure to hear the both of you.
Thank you for this great interview. I love Herb's enthusiasm for the music and for how for how equipment looks also.
Much thanks Steve & Herb!
Great getting to know you both. Was also curious about Herbs earlier year’s. Hope you both have a great day!
Thanks, Steve and Herb! It’s Monday, and this vid has certainly started my week of very well. I always love to see Herb on one of your vids, and to hear you old buddies talk shop. Love it! ✌️🎶🤗 Gonna be hooking up the 300B’s today!
Based on your videos, I started looking at horns and pulled the trigger a couple of years ago. Can’t thank you enough!
What did you get? 😃
@@christinearmington Avantgarde Duo Mezzos
I've never met either one of these guys, yet they make me feel like I've known them my entire life! Love it!
I could listen to Herb and Steve for a whole day. They have always interesting topics and their knowledge is a goldmine.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting both men at different audio events. Steve you are a superstar and seem to enjoy it. Herb is a poet laureate in this audiophile community and always loves talking audiophilia. Hope to see you both in future events.
Love listening to you guys talk about audio. Wow! Keep it coming.
Great personalities. Great chemistry. Great stories. Thank you!
Audiophiliac episodes just keep getting better!
Awesome! I could listen to Herb's stories all day.
That was fantastic! Love Herbs enthusiasm! I had VoT and Dynaco Stereo 70 back in the day in my parents basement. Sold them and replaced with LaScala and Crown DC300a which also doubled as sound reinforcement for a rock band. Great memories.
What a great way to start my week. Hanging out with Steve and Herb.
The firehouse soirees must have been amazing! Great to get a glimpse back in time.
the girl came down the poll and all the guys sat around listening to horns made me soiree not to have been there...
@@JohnDoe-np3zk
Ouch.
@@HareDeLune LOL
Wondering what all else was going on at "the firehouse"?! Hah!
Love hearing from Herb
Great discussion, great points about the Decca recording of the Wagner Ring cycle with Solti!
Thank you guys, my passion for music and hifi is living because also the guys like you exists......
Great stories. That picture with the speakers at the end of the video rocks.
Absolutely loved this episode!
Herb just amazes me. Talk about a jack of all trades. From construction and the fire house to selling $90 Audio Note boxes to the simple bunker in Bed Sty. And so interesting to listen to. Thanks again Steve. Keep bringing Herb back...what a treat!
This is GOLD
Man I could listen to this all day long.
I love you guys and I have said it before,I could listen to you two talk for hours and hours. Please do more videos together. And yes horns are great.
FFS... You must be bored
When Herb cups his hands around his mouth and mentions “horn coloration” (?) that accurately demonstrated what I hear from Voice of the Theater speakers. I am convinced, when I go to someone’s house with those huge horns that sound to me like a bad public address system at a bus station, that our ears must present radically different sounds to our various brains. And I love my JBL 4333 3 way horn speakers, but there’s just something about those Voice of the Theater speakers that completely escapes me.
I hear the same when listening to most (not all) horn speakers.
Really cool video, thanks guys!
Such a great story of the “voice of the theatre” vs the Watt Puppies while hearing the Stones live. So cool hearing these older stories and the nostalgic joy while recalling it!
I’m here a bit for audio reviews but mainly because of Herb’s statements like the nature of the universe being vibratory and stuff like that, and of course for steve’s mood...so good to see you standing together again guys!
This was so great!!
Both you and Herb are truly audiophile originals. I have watched many of your videos, and read reviews by Herb many times in Stereophile magazine. You both are to blame for my renewed enjoyment of music using a tube amp and Klipsch speakers. Thank you.
They know fcuk about Audio
Always a pleasure with you guys 🙏 Steve and Herb, you are amazing! I'd really like to hear those horns! However i recently ordered a pair of Harbeth Super HL 5 Plus XD. Just fell Completely in love with them. Just can't wait!!! Love your show Steve ♥️ Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
Excellent. Love to hear the stories and experiences, tangential to audio or not.
"triode mafia" soirees LOL. That's a fantastic turn of phrase
You can tell your old friends. Those soirees sound like they would have been fun. Good friends and audio.. great video. Thanks guys.
I love it when old guys chat it's like a movie
Hey guys--- great video-- make more :) This is Early Bender (Walt my dad ran Audiomart, which was the reference required member/ marketplace everyone bought and sold before the Internet) -- I remember these days --Don Garber, Fi 's ads and everything else! You guys are electric -- love it. We need more tube horn system talk ;)
great video and you two were having fun what a wonderful treat for us take care both of you god bless.
Awesome storyline.
Thanks for posting...
Was a great interview.
I love listening to these stories. I wish I had more experience with tube gear on my horns. The prices these days of good tubes and gear is not a cheap date
Great interview! For the past year I have only listened to my mc352 Magnepan 1.7i combo, my DIY Cornscala are in storage waiting for me to rework the crossovers and cabinets. I have really missed my horns! Finally realizing it maybe years before I get the time I pulled the trigger on a pair of Klipsch Hersey iv’s. That I am going to power with PrimaLuna until I can find a 300b amp for them.
Wow, did this bring back memories. in the early 70s I ran sound for a rock club band that worked the east coast. We were using a 16 track board, 2 McIntosh MC-2300s into 2 Voice of the Theatres. Great live sound and many many very good memories.
Lovely episode (again). Thank you! Now I want to know all about 300B tubes/amps.
you guys are great !! thank you 🙏
Awesome video!!!! 👌 I can listen to herb all day . A book confessions of an Audiophile
Maybe?
Thank you for this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks to Herb, I now enjoy Hana, Elekit, Falcon and soon Sunvalley too. Both of you, stay strong and live long!
Herb is the Godfather of low wattage triode. Him and the late great Art Dudley are by far my most favorite reviewers. I love hearing about Herb life stories, Thank you Steve.
Herb and Steve make audio fun again. Both pack their reviews with good information. If one listens or reads closely, you can get a real good idea if what the product is bringing to the table.
Enjoyed this,thanks.
What a great idea! The ability to speak to Herb!
Gotta love Herb. Much more please. I want a pair of Avant-garde speakers even more now. Dammit!
Start saving and just do it. That’s my plan🥳
Very enjoyable ! Thanks !
These two can go on forever. They are very knowledgeable about all things stereo ! Horn speakers are the Best ! The Voice of Theater, Klipsch K- Horns have been around since the 1940’s , and no leaps have been made in music reproduction. Klipsch still makes K-horns over 75 years and still consider Great ! Advent / Lancing are still some of the Best Speakers around. You can spend all you want but you really can’t get more music than Klipsch or Advent will produce in the right situation. I am a Horn lover ! Clean, crisp, Dynamic, live listening levels. Even better now that we have sub-woofers ! Quality today is far and few , plus the costs are crazy ! I’ll probably die with my old Marantz and Klipsch speakers. Adding a set of Klipsch Belle’s with the K-Horns really adds a new dimension to my listening. It really opens the music up. Very open , their sound bless together very well into a single wide full range. You feel the music as well as hear it . I have been thrilled with this set up for over 30 years and it still rocks !
So interesting.....Thanks Steve.
This interview reminds me of the days when I had a subscription to Sound Practices Magazine. Horns, triodes, 300B!
Whatever happened to Joe Roberts?
Whai love about watching this video is the friendship that you two have going back in time and talking about the ol glory days of high fidelity.The voice of the theater..amazing sound.A friend had these and they could take your breath away.The first time i heard a high end stereo was in a store in the town i lived in..lots of gear.I was stunned by what i heard Lou Rawls singing right behind me.That good.That was the moment i was the search for some high end stereo.Love this talking points between you two.Audiophiles galore.Thank you Steve Guttenberg.By the way way. back in time are you related to thee Guttenberg that invented the printing press..?
Cool to see Don Garber’s Fi phono stage near that Feickert record spinner.. R.I.P., Don.
I contacted Don many years ago and had him make me a 2a3 amplifier. I will never part with that amp. It was always interesting and fun exchanging ideas with Him. He was certainly a unique guy and greatly missed.
I like how you mentioned Don Garber in the video and one of his beautiful fi preamps is sitting in the background.
love these interviews
with Steve and Herb
More videos on horns please, love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Fi Preamp in the background is great!
I’d love to hear those old theatre speakers again!
Herb and Steve are audio nuts who just make this thing we do cool and always an adventure....best hobby slash distraction from a brutal world...music
What a joyful video.
You guys are a couple classics
I used to wander manhattan on foot endlessly, trekking around union sq one day, I stumbled into some audio shop that sold shindo gear, man thats some nice nice stuff!
I loved those days when Herb, Don, and the others were building experimental SET's and displaying their schematics and construction drawings in Sound Practices. Those times dictated my path to my present system (Altec A7 speakers, Garrard 301 turntable, Ayon 30 watt SET amp) . I lament the passing of that era.
These Herb videos are some of the best
Yes they are!
You lads are inventing an improved form of Journalism.
You are showcasing a beautiful range of curious.
Steve's room is looking better every day, now it looks un-tangled !
I'd hope for your regular group to include K.Micallef , J.Atkinson and Kal R.
Audio gear is wonderful, the Journalism is even better.
Tony in Venice Florida
ps. It could be nice to hear an interview with Mr.JA2
These two are legends
The mighty Klipschorn is the finest speaker I've ever heard, with a realism unmatched by any other, IMO. Only the La Scala comes close to me. The effortless dynamics and the sense of scale is unparalleled by any other brand or style of speaker to my ears.
Great topic! I am blessed to have been able to sample the best of The
Heyday of Audio! I had huge Altec Corner horns that housed two 15's and 515 horns.I also had huge JBL C37's,C38's,etc....with a Mac MC 240.i fell in love with the old school audio setups instantly? But, in my opinion,the Altec Woofers were slow,and they had to be rotated 180°every 6 months due to sagging of the cone and suspension.The JBL's had phenomenal Drivers,but bad crossovers and boomy box cabinets. I ended up settling on Klipsch Designs with the underappreciated Electrovioce Drivers.I love EV! Every Klipsch Heritage series speakers that I have owned,I replaced The stamped frame(subbed out Woofers) with vintage or pro JBL Alnico Woofers.(more efficient and lightning ⚡ fast.)enter single ended 300b's,pure heaven!
Once heard theatre horns in a customer's home....huge sound anywhere in the house. Playing Bob Marley:-)
Not very refined, but no idea what he was driving them with. That was a huge room. My home is a modest bungalow with 13x21ft music rooms....can't imagine shoehorning horns in here!
The firehouse sounded like a fun hangout- Thanks guys;-)
Hi Herb, we have same passions! Audio, old mercedes and also same type of glasses. Nice gays. Thanks a lot
I built a pair of A7 cabs in 1973 and hauled them around. with the matching horns, for my band at the time. To make matters worse, I used what we called back then particle board. Sounded fab driven by DIY solid state Tiger amps.
Herb makes Steve look really good ! Well done Steve !
Best comment (from Herb with finger pointing at ".net"): "Pay no attention to The Audiophiliac!"
Can you say PRICELESS!!! 😂😂😂
Sensitivity is overrated!
@@heywoodjablome5630 No it is not.
That was one of the most entertaining and educational chats I have seen/heard in a long time. Great job, fellows.
I agree that playing old records on period equipment is pretty cool. I play a lot of mono lps from the 50s and 60s on a mono GE cartridge and Fisher mono tube amp, and there is a presence in the performances different from listening to them on my main hi-fi.
Interesting. I built a single ended triode amp in 1997 out of curiosity. SET was the hot thing at the time and I could not find a single ended amp in my local area. The plans came from Glass Audio magazine and it used the 45 tube for a massive 2 watts. So unlike Herb who went looking for an amp to match his speaker, I went looking for a speaker to match the best sounding amp I had ever heard. I wound up with a theater pull Altec system.
I'm in the process of building that same 45 amp
Meaningful dialog with fervor. How could anyone not enjoy these delectable slices of the past?
This is great!
Great job really fun.
You are brilliant...a true master class for audiophiles! Holy canoli Herb...I've been a resident on Staten Island since 1960...an audiophile, record collector and former recording studio owner. I'm curious where that fire house was?! Heading upstate soon to live and looking for someone to help me with my AMG Viella 12. The room is very large with non-parallel walls and a 15' peak ceiling. It will be set up for recording and live performance
Munich. Bellème. Wherever. So much looking forward to meeting you again, Herb.
the feeling totally mutual-you are the man Holger
The Altec Lansing model 14's were 5he best, most efficient home speaker ever made in my opinion. They were crystal clear at 3 watts. But, one took them to a graduation party at the lake and on Sunday morning I went to a store there on the lake maybe three miles away by water. When I walked out of the store with the smokes, drinks, and snacks I heard Jethro Tull Cross Eyed Mary as clear as a bell from across the lake.... I'm sure all the people up for the weekend between my speakers and the store really appreciated that..hahaha