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As I already have written before, I was looking at different bass solutions for frequencies below 110hz with my set-up. As of this weekend I have set-up a new solution and will be evaluating and fine tuning it for the coming days. The new bass sectio...
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An audio guy contacted me today with and an interesting note: “can't put a piano in the same room as a hifi”. When I asked why he wrote: “scott's steinway sounding board would 'ring' like crazy. it was my theory about why his tannoys sounded even mud...
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Interesting.
When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was turned off by any cell...
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Rony, as I underrated from California to France you would not find a direct fly and it would be a landing some in East Cost. Would it be a different time then I would invite you to lend in Boston and spend some time with me. Unfortunately for aud...
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[quote user="zako"]Yes we now can digitally replace the violin section and cello section,,and horn and bass,,and wind and tymponyss of an orchestra....I will now orchestrate a new Mahler Ressurection,,,,replacing Micheal Tilson Thomas with my version...
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Hi miab, my room is approx. 6x5x4m, so although quite small by North American standards (not UK!), the ceiling is higher than that of most modern houses. This seems to play a big part in the LF performance of any speakers in this room. I currently ha...
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Well, Lynn Harrell is unquestionably is in the pantheon of the greatest alive cellists, right along with Mischa Maisky, Yo Yo Ma, Natalia Gutman, Truls Mork, Maria Kliegel, Janos Starker (still alive? still playing?) I think he is worth to peru...
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I brought home another "top-rating" tuner with better front-end and trying to see if the TU-X1 hold the ground. The competition was groundless – Sansui destroyed the contestant, I will talk about it more in future.
Minwhile it was a broadcast today ...
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This very musical masterpiece "owns" me since my boyhood, as my mother used to listen to it, as I learned about its title getting older (without NEVER knowing who performed it); sometimes she was reading in dimmed light, a book on her laps, more ofte...
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Today on WFMT's New Releases program, Lisa Flynn played a live recording of Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto. Composed in 2001, this performance I believe is from the fall of 2012. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra, and th...
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the Bach suites topic was not a teaser.
Just plain interest.I have lived with the Suites my whole life and could probably talk about and listen to different interpretations for the rest of my life.I love the barok cello versions of Pieter Wispelway...
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Sure, those, “events” around musical performance have HUGE affect to the musicians and I in fact LOVE to collect stories about them. What could be more “interesting” from a perspective of “anxiety” then for instance the Tanglewood performance of Shos...
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If you know how in some optical systems imagery get destroyed when an aperture getting closed to F64 or even smaller, then you understand what happens in compression driver when frequency get higher and spaces smaller. Yes, the proximity of wavelengt...
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...However, "a 2000 RPM meat slicer chopping the music up into little pieces" is, admittedly, more eloquent!Some time ago, I played around with a Kharma model (the big one that has woofers and the 3-in-one tweet**) at a friend's house. The furni...
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"The quality of the upper bass"? What about the rest of the range, man?
The whole goddam cello!
clark...
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Hey Cat...long time no claw,Wrong? My dog, if I can list my musical machine mistakes...The original boxes I got with my 10" and 15" reds were respectively the little IIILZ sealed and big ported boxes. The IIILZ box with the little reds wa...
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Decoud,
There is nothing wrong in what those guys propose and there is nothing wrong in in-wall to mount drivers in infinite baffle configuration. In fact it very much interesting idea to build a custom room with a strange shape where wall most favo...
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I managed to get a hold of a decent demo copy of RCA LSC-2413 (stereo), which features the 1960 iteration of the Juilliard Quartet playing the perennially-conjoined Ravel and Debussy String Quartets. Despite the Juilliard's reputation of fast play, ...
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I was re-reading with interest a post by Roman with interesting and stimulating posts by Amir... http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=254#254I MUST agree that when talking or thinking about message, "coherence", deepnees, moving ...
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Ah electrostats...I am fairly sure that problem with esls is trying to take them down to low and them not being driven properly. If you actually calculate how much current you need to drive transient peaks into an ESL, it's horrifying. I can't imagin...
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During the 2002 CES, late at night, a friend of mine demonstrate me something that was tying to address for a few years. It was a very different “tone” form a loudspeaker or I would rather say a different relationship between reproduced and auditable...
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The only issues that I have ever had were putting the piano in a place where the large smooth surfaces did not cause assymmetric reflections that messed with the stereo presentation.
The damper pedal on a piano is "on" when not d...
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Haralanov,
What you are experiencing in my view is an inconsistency and confusion between listening of playback presentation vs. content of musical message. I know that it is fashionable among audiophiles to claim “not listening to audio but l...
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I do not care about the Bruno Walter’s or the Mahler’s himself comments. I care about myself and in the way how I want it to play not one plays, and I am disappointed.
I am not a huge fun of Mahler First Symphony; in fact I am not a huge fun ...
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Similar to the famous sexist tail that women can be only ether pretty or smart the midbass horns unfortunately behave in the very same way: they can be only nicely placed in a room or they can sound good. You want the horn to place in a specific ...
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It is funny but for many years I had been intrigued by the different approach to audio by Japanese vs "the West"."The west" here refers to Absolute Sound type (not everyone in the West is this of course) criteria of live performance.
Confession time...
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Recently I had my second extended visit to hear Macondo system. I decided to post my listening impressions because this is one of the two best in home installations I have ever heard. The pictures you have seen of the Macondo system look quite ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The rumors are that Warner has bought licenses of all Svetlanov's recordings and they are reissuing them now. So far the Myaskovsky set is available only in Europe
http://www.amazon.fr/Int%C3%A9grale-Symphonies-Nikola%C3%A...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] And of course there was the Onegin of the Onegins: the performance in 1955 by Boris Khaikin with Bolshoi Orchestra & Chorus in studio of Moscow Radio Center. [/quote] Ah, I was spinning today the Khaikin’s Onegin’55. Y...
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Roman
I agree that from absolute point of view "yellow driver with wings" is not a great solution. But, there is many types of yellow drivers with quite different specs and a few types of "wings" also exist. I'm not going to deffend this kind of imp...
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