What is “Vintage Tone” ? (part 2)
...continued from part 1 Now almost all major electric guitar manufacturers have recognized this trend and jumped on board to recapture their historic “vintage tone” with “vintage cables,” “vintage capacitors,” and “vintage woods.” This “vintage tone” trend went largely unnoticed in audiophile circles until recently, when in a parallel audio universe, the discerning Shirokazu Yazaki, engineer at SPEC Corporation, recognized the lost art of tone that tinned copper conductors provide so naturally when applied to HiFi audio use. Shirokazu Yazaki likes to refer to the tonal qualities characterized by these tinned copper conductors as “real sound,” and I agree that......











