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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Classical Grammy Awards Winners by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Classical Grammy Awards Winners by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2010 Classical Grammy Nominees in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Context Before Content by Paul S on 2009-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in Boston!!! in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
The "Critical Industry" has long fed on itself rather than its putative subject.  And once the buzz gets going for The Kids, or the New Conductor From ..., it takes something really violent to untrack it.How tired I am of the endless NPR "reviews...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Excitement by Paul S on 2024-02-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kevin Puts, American Composer, Contact in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
Having listened a few times now, I still like the piece enough that I ordered the CD (Letters For The Future). I'll get back about how it comes across on my main system. Meanwhile, I often detect a sort of "buzz" exuded by artists who seem to be supe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Görlich again by el`Ol on 2008-07-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Macondo’s Upper Bass Channel: what is next? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  30 Replies 
Hello Romy!The guy you can see in the picture is Mr. Görlich himself. There had been some awards for old Görlich speakers in the CAR sector, and so Mr. Görlich was "exhumated" by a car audio guy. The drivers have rubber surround now, have 4 Ohm ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: According to a Slovenian web site by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Meet the Artist by Paul S on 2024-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kevin Puts, American Composer, Contact in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
Years ago I was quite involved with the local arts scene, including reading, writing and schmoozing for grants and subsidies, and all the politics of various and sundry institutions and "influential individuals" that are part of the working artist's ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Maybe not a Pipedream after all? by oxric on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Memory Player Box? in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Yes indeed. The company was originally Nova Physics and appears to have been sold on to Sam Laufer, a lawyer by profession originally who brought in Mark Porzilli of Melos and Pipedreams fame. I do not know if this company actually manufactures or se...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: They are just criminalians. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audiophile Re-issues: What's Lost and What's Gained? in Analog Playback  11 Replies 
Yes, the contemporary reassures are not good but I would like to look at this from a different perspective – why is it so? It is very easy to blame the people who do the reassures – they are ignorant and uninformed, despite of all awards and medals t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Marketing "Taste" by Paul S on 2008-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Implied Sound” in Audio. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
Perhaps there are several working definitions of the term "taste" floating around here?  I think of "taste" as it applies in this thread as pertaining to or presupposing a certain level of cultivation that is both broad and dep (or, not); "evolv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Re: Better among worst? by Thorsten on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Hi,[quote user="morricab"]You may be right.  It would perhaps be worthwhile to look into "better" transformers but I am not sure that an advantage can be found over just going RCA to XLR adaptor into the balanced inputs and thereby bypassing the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Shostakovich’s 100th birthday... by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shostakovich’s 100th birthday... in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Nowadays, during the week of Shostakovich’s anniversary of 100th birthday, it has been a lot of Shostakovich’s music played here in there. With all my “issues” with Mahlerism-Shostakovich I still listen their music, what whatever reasons…. Today ther...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The root of sonic barbarism is that they do not care. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ways to use audio methods. in Playback Listening  10 Replies 
[quote user="stuck.wilson"]one of the most heinous-  outside public opinion-  is the current state of 'studio recording'-  not scrupulous and thorough transparent use of good recording equipment, but the economics-derived aesthetic of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Linn recordings: listening by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where? in Didital Things  31 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I bought a few Linn Records own recordings of Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. They pushed them as “Studio Master” but they are WMA files – means the re-rendered compress...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: "Bad" Labels by Paul S on 2009-04-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Vinyl Ceremonies: Repeatable VTA in Analog Playback  18 Replies 
Moving to the next obsessive step, I traded my cheap-o dial gauge for a regular (cheap-o) micrometer, and I added some magnifying glasses and a calculator, to try to plot a reliable relative indicator I can use with my existing means of adjustment.  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Boris Godunov 1948: the singers by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Opera “Boris Godunov” in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #140: The unpunishable filmmakers syndrome. by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
Yep, guys, thanks, I hear what you saying and it is true - the possibilities of the power devises in commercial and industrial world are endless. Even among regulators there are dozens and dozens companies that DC-AC inverters. Some of them might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Sound Liaison download by Gentleman on 2013-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New audiophile download sites in Musical Discussions  12 Replies 
well,well, well.Big words.If the Marriot played the music from the Sound Liaison Label,in their elevators with a good sound system, I'd be riding that Thing all day.But that's the beauty of music,diversity.and Glen Gould,of course,no surpassing that,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A new generation of full-function preamps. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A new generation of full-function preamps. in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
In the past there was such a concept of full-function preamplifiers that included MM and MC inputs. With time such devises die out and nowadays it is VERY difficult to find a full-function preamplifier generally and a good sounding full-function ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The GoodSoundClub’s ‘Ultimate Audio Dildo Award’ in Audio News  10 Replies 
Many audio publications grand some kind of idiotic rewards: “Product of Year”, “Editor Choose Award”, the “Best Sound at Show, “The Golden Ears” and so on. Trying to stay in the moronic awards-granting crowd I decided to form my own award: I would ca...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Lovro von Matacic biography from various sources.... by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
Lovro von Matacic was one of the great conductors who preserved the authentic late-Romantic tradition into the late-Romantic age. He was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. There he studied piano, org...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Analogue to digital converter comparison by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analogue to digital converter comparison in Didital Things  6 Replies 
ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER COMPARISON by Kostas Metaxas Procedure: In all cases except for the KORG MR-1000, SOUND DEVICES SD744T and METRIC HALO[used with an Apple Laptop], I fed the outputs of the Stellavox SM8 to the A-D converter inputs [...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The best audio product of the year!!! by Romy the Cat on 2019-12-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio product of the year!!! in Audio News  0 Replies 
Yes, behind this ambitious title there is nothing to read besides my typical rant about audio industry but there is also an opportunity for you to think.   It is end of the year and audio industry is flowering with all possible attributions ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1364: PurePower Press Release: the war is over, kind off..... by Romy the Cat on 2015-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1916 Replies 
This thread is not about PurePower but since there is a LOT about PP in there I think it would be reasonable to post it here. I got last night a email with the following information. For sure my congratulation to Canadian, the battle well won. I w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The new releases from "Music and Arts" by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new releases from "Music and Arts" in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. www.musicandarts.com info@musicandarts.com Tel 510-525-4583 or Fax 510-524-2111CD-1063(2) IN MEMORIAM HANS HOTTER (1909-2003). A selection of Lieder from the Raucheisen project of the German Radio Sy...
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