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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Music appreciation first? Audio first? by clarkjohnsen on 2005-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playback evaluations made easy. in Audio For Dummies ™  7 Replies 
"I was looking for higher purpose of audio." Yes, and that would be music. But audio, as you seem to be saying, can be enjoyed on its own as a hobby, a hobby I might add much superior to coin collecting, for instance.All I meant by my quoted sta...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Music appreciation first? Audio first? by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-27 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]...The trick is always to find an individual's music appreciation level first, then hit the audio.[/quote] Hmmm. I would argue it. Not because I have any firmed opinion about it but because my personal experience does no s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-09 
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Audio and Music: four levels of unity and separation or… ...or a short and slightly dipped into Dostoevsky essay about Audio inevitability in case of …an Audio progress. K???? ? ??????? ?? ???????????? ?? ??? - ?????? ?? ???:O?? ?????? ??? ?????...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Hiroyasu Kondo: “My thoughts on Hi-Fi”. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
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This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment. http://www.sibatech.co.jp/ I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...

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 #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Music appreciation first? Audio first? by Romy the Cat on 2005-09-27 
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]...The trick is always to find an individual's music appreciation level first, then hit the audio.[/quote] Hmmm. I would argue it. Not because I have any firmed opinion about it but because my personal experience does no s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm LP2 phonostage: review of review. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm LP2 phonostage: review of review. in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
I like to stress a point that the mammals that write thier doodles for audio publication are not juts ignorant fools but also the cheap, low class, falseificators. No wonder that the audio manufacturing companies do employ the so-called reviewers as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Tweeter Integration by Jorge on 2011-07-25 
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Hello Haralanov,It is hard to talk about sound, and define points: this is why the post is so long.Most systems I have lisitened to that measure a flat response have exagerated high frequencies and usually the midbass is a little shy,  this might be ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and... by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-02 
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... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning… Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas… http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468 The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: A very pleasant surprise by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 5-ways from Germany. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  38 Replies 
I think this post need to have an epigrapher: “We knew what we wanted to hear, and so we developped, and developped, and developped... In hundreds of small and bigger steps. Over thirty years. Till we were "there" where we always wanted ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #62: Goto's Advance Stage by twogoodears on 2011-04-04 
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Thanks, Roman... I strangely (?!?) feel me like a schoolboy at his first primary schoolday... virtually ALL my (limited) audio knowledge, vanished... and I'm dealing with brand-new problems, like a crossover with fixed slopes and cut-off frequencies ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: The history of stereophonic sound by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-22 
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The history of stereophonic sound 1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: How I'd wish to write in my language... by twogoodears on 2008-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
... to better express myself, with every needed nuance... Roman: I never wrote I'm able to time-align my speakers, I only told you I quite recently began "moving" drivers and horns as I never did in the past few years, NOT simply looking for a practi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Re: Show me the Sound! by livemusic on 2006-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio critique – open your mind! in Playback Listening  44 Replies 
Romy, You are absolutely right, saying "audiophile" which is not capable to hear any criticizm about his system, is very far from inderstanding what the music is. As an amator painter, a joined (long ago) to a group of amators like me, gath...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The art of audio thinking. by Romy the Cat on 2013-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection. in Playback Listening  25 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]My point is not that separation per se must always be maintained but that the character of the music determines the degree of optimum separation or co-location. For example the first violins are grouped together for a reason s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Listening Levels by Amir on 2009-07-20 
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Thanks Romy for interesting article, I like it.excuse me for bad english :)I think our perception is a wonderful universe and it can focus on objects in outside. target of this focus across time will change our brain state and it's response will be d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting Started with Myaskovsky by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The prison of language and the lie in the symbol by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An Acquired Taste by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-11 
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Here is a good article, not that I agree with everything that the author say but the direction is very good.  http://guthrytrojan.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html An Acquired Taste by Guthry Trojan from March 28, 2006 It ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: High End -THE ULTIMATE KEY by Stitch on 2013-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: What is High-End Audio? in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
Found some interesting comments on an independent web site, Twogoodears. I'll copy it, it is from 2009 with original lines from Arthur Salvatore and a comment from Stefano Bertocello - Twogoodears owner -, we will n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Are You On the Road to Audio Hell? by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-23 
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About Darwinism of Music and Audio assessments. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-11 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It played well, though I question if it makes sense to use that caliber music for audio evaluations. [/quote] Let just for sake of illustration to presume that any expressed opinion (a review) about audio element/component...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The SACD and the Windows Media Player by el`Ol on 2008-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The SACD and the Windows Media Player in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Hello!The moronic idea that bad + bad can become good just drove me to playing a hybrid-SACD with the Windows Media Player. First I thought I was right, but then the non-moronic regions of my brain told me this can´t come from the PCM layer...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Gazing between the Macondo chennals? by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to train respect audio listening? in Playback Listening  18 Replies 
Actually I would be very much disappointed if we develop a relationship that would require sending signals that would make us to leave each other f. alone. I could perfectly comfortable in this setting with recursive girlfriends but I do not feel tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #55: Amir, this is open internet space by rowuk on 2019-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
Amir, what you have written is not  a philosophy, it is not a path that guides decisions, not a document what gives others insight into what music does to you and why. I have been following your posting, and to be honest, it sounds more like an audio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Creme de la What? by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
Guys, You really misunderstood this CD. This is just a compilation of GOOD MUSIC well performed and interpreted and it has nothing to do with audio. For instance now of my compilations CDs I ever played on my playback. Those CDs are good enough for ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: "Try it." by clarkjohnsen on 2005-09-26 
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Hey Romy, I've been operating that way for twenty-five years. The trick is always to find an individual's music appreciation level first, then hit the audio.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: About Art Dudley by clarkjohnsen on 2014-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™ in Playback Listening  30 Replies 
Or anyway about that quote by Gordon.There are two epigrams I've often quoted in this connection. The first is from conductor Roger Norrington:Music is not about sound.The second is my own:Audio is a damn distraction from the music.c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The DSET perspective examines the Herb Reichert article. in Melquiades Amplifier  5 Replies 
The “Enjoy His Music” published the old celebrated by many DIYers Herb Reichert’s article about his 300B amp ideas. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0709/flesh_blood.htm I read it before but reading it now, after a few years again...
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