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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: New Shalin Liu Performance Center at Rockport by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New Shalin Liu Performance Center at Rockport in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
Today WGHB broadcasted live Marc-Andre Hamelin’s recital with Berg’s Op 1, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor , Debussy’s Excerpts from Préludes and some own Hamelin’s Etudes – a killing program but as insult of injury I detect that the sound was  very intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #58: Oswald Mills Audio & others by Stitch on 2013-03-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Schroder Tonearms in Analog Playback  61 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Further thoughts II by Stitch on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Light platter? by guy sergeant on 2014-05-21 
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The Rockport Sirius 3 platter is around 30 Kg which suggests to me that you haven't seen, used or heard one. From your description, whatever it was that you did hear bears no resemblance to how it sounds. I can only assume that whatever it was, it wa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Selling? by guy sergeant on 2014-05-25 
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They weren't 'selling' anything. You could ask about the Japanese GIP reproduction drivers or pick up a leaflet but no one actually mentioned them. The owner of Silbatone has another business making & selling cars. I don't think he's under any pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: New Shalin Liu Performance Center at Rockport by Romy the Cat on 2010-07-11 
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Today WGHB broadcasted live Marc-Andre Hamelin’s recital with Berg’s Op 1, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor , Debussy’s Excerpts from Préludes and some own Hamelin’s Etudes – a killing program but as insult of injury I detect that the sound was  very intere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The FM as a window to music. by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The best audio source EVER! in Off Air Audio  34 Replies 
I was wondering how different would be my audio habits if I “discover” the FM in Boston earlier. I lived in Boston for a few years and did not acknowledge the highly available wonderful word of FM broadcast. I think that if I “FM-wake up” early in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Money makes the world go round by Stitch on 2014-05-22 
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Well, there are different Models from Rockport out there .... and I also listened to the latest version Sirius III. Based on the technical specs (heavy 30 kg platter, air bearing horizontal, vertical) I thought it must be super sonically. But when I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Further thoughts by guy sergeant on 2014-05-21 
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The demonstration of the WE equipment was impressive as was looking closely at how these horns were constructed.  The arrangement (originally it would have been mono) was to provide the audience seated both in the stalls or circle with an evenly bala...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Audiophile Cheerleaders by Stitch on 2011-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog is Back 2011: Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Yep, another TT but what does it mean “Analog is Back” and “new hope for the discriminated analog Audiophile”? This language is a crap that industry and armature cheerleaders develop to pump themselves and others up. How...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: I do not think so. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-22 
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[quote user="Stitch"]Well, there are different Models from Rockport out there .... and I also listened to the latest version Sirius III. Based on the technical specs (heavy 30 kg platter, air bearing horizontal, vertical) I thought it must be super s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Granite Sirius 3 by guy sergeant on 2014-05-22 
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[quote user="Stitch"]Well, there are different Models from Rockport out there .... and I also listened to the latest version Sirius III. Based on the technical specs (heavy 30 kg platter, air bearing horizontal, vertical) I thought it must be super s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: My latest BMI post... by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
...deletd.The Mahler Second last Saturday was a wonderful concert to demonstrate how irrelevant BSO is becoming in lives of people who are interesting in actual musical results instead of paranoiac desire of feeding a parochial cesspool of smalltalk ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: June in Boston with Early Music Festivals by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-09 
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This is beyond wonderful. Two festivals are running now in Boston: Rockport Chamber Music Festival: http://www.rcmf.org/ Boston Early Music Festival: http://www.bemf.org/ WGBH is running live and live-to-tape broadcasts from both of them...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #186: The Kiss of Death List by Stitch on 2019-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Well, the Ultimate Turntable. I had the chance to listen to some personally. Most have one in common:Overrated and hyped from deaf "reviewers"And .... price tag has no direct comparison to sonic excellence ... or a lot of technical features which are...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Proscenium III is "state of the art" .... by Stitch on 2013-07-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: AF-1 & so on .... by Stitch on 2017-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
[quote user="jam"]I would agree that the RX-5000 has some advantage to the SX-8000 and I put the differences down to mainly the air bearing and construction of the platter which will cause softness and a lack of focus (some people may like this). T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The Pacific two is not a virgin anymore. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded.  If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: No AF, no Mac, no ways... by Romy the Cat on 2017-10-29 
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[quote user="Stitch"]Romy's friend calls them absolute BS....hm, is it possible to get it more precise? Why? Based on what? What does other Tables better? Which ones?I listened to a lot of Turntables and there were the very most expensive ones.......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Foolishness of Analog People by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-30 
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Epigraph "…just buy a used Micro Seiki and don’t worry about turntables anymore; built like a tank and sounds better than TTs costing over 30K USD.” Mr. Ikeda, of Ikeda / Fidelity Research The Main bitching It amasses me how the preoccupation...
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