My younger son Bobby brought a friend home tonight who was a) an avid Beatles fan and B) had never heard "a really good record player" before. I quickly put 2 and 2 together and decided it was time to take out the Mobile Fidelity Sgt. Pepper UHQR and give it a whirl.
Well we weren't 5 bars into the first song before Bobby was looking at me and mouthing
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He had often heard me talk about lousy summer electricity but this is the first time he had heard the effect for himself. I explained to him that his mother (and everybody else in the neighborhood ) had the air conditioners cranking at full blast and this was the sonic result of all that noise on the lines.
Although his friend was blown away by it, we both know that it could have sounded much better.
Another lesson for the youngin' from the audiophile school of hard knocks.