When I think back to my earliest childhood, when I still wore a diaper (= mid 50'es), I thought that someone was actually inside the colossal piece of audio my parents had, singing and playing for me. It was a gigantic beast, mono with built-in radio and 78 record player. Later on they transferred to LP's and more modern equipment.
The music they played was the same everyone else liked at the time, among that a duo named Nina (van Pallandt) and Frederik, whose music was a mixture of calypso and pop. Nevertheless beautiful music. To this day I still enjoy Nina and Frederik as I have some of their most popular tunes on cd.
The marvellous thing about most of their music is, that is has the hifi sound from back then. A tight, warm end very present sound, not unlike what you can hear from vintage tubes today. Believe it or not, some of the tunes mentioned above still has this quality to them, even on CD, and I love it.
Later on my parents switched to B&O and a Philips reel-to-reel tape recorder with a wonderful sound. They had a tape my father played LOUD every Sunday morning, a tape with Hammond organ music. There's nothing more wonderful to wake up to IMO.
Today they are 83 and 84, and still enjoy music, but with the natural limitations that age brings along. But they taught me the love for music, and I have no greater joy in life than listening to beautiful and/or engaging music. Having a decent hifi is not half bad 
When I think back to my earliest childhood, when I still wore a diaper (= mid 50'es), I thought that someone was actually inside the colossal piece of audio my parents had, singing and playing for me. It was a gigantic beast, mono with built-in radio and 78 record player. Later on they transferred to LP's and more modern equipment.
The music they played was the same everyone else liked at the time, among that a duo named Nina (van Pallandt) and Frederik, whose music was a mixture of calypso and pop. Nevertheless beautiful music. To this day I still enjoy Nina and Frederik as I have some of their most popular tunes on cd.
The marvellous thing about most of their music is, that is has the hifi sound from back then. A tight, warm end very present sound, not unlike what you can hear from vintage tubes today. Believe it or not, some of the tunes mentioned above still has this quality to them, even on CD, and I love it.
Later on my parents switched to B&O and a Philips reel-to-reel tape recorder with a wonderful sound. They had a tape my father played LOUD every Sunday morning, a tape with Hammond organ music. There's nothing more wonderful to wake up to IMO.
Today they are 83 and 84, and still enjoy music, but with the natural limitations that age brings along. But they taught me the love for music, and I have no greater joy in life than listening to beautiful and/or engaging music. Having a decent hifi is not half bad