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Good question, as usual, Decoud. No doubt it has something to do with the very unusual recording, plus my own penchant for "getting involved" in the music according to what the recording and the system will allow. It was not an LP, after all, but a ...
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Hi Romy,I see now you are throwing around the term "absolute tone" in a relative manner again :) . Why would you want to neutralize absolute tone and with a metal tweeter no less!! You are talking about a tweeter "absolute tone" offsetting a po...
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OK, maybe it needs a bit more detail ,or say perspective as regards to this audio-cooking effort. NO QUESTION, we first have to look after the object before we joy-ride, or joye-feast, oh yes! I mentioned quality and caring somewhere just a short...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]The Ultimate turntable only needs to provide for one arm. The ultimate arm. Why compromise its performance with various inferior arm designs.[/quote] Well, certainly a single ultimate arm would be a good thing but I still w...
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I was involved many years ago (1985), in the design and manufacture of a 'low mass' turntable called the Voyd. This suspended design used 3 papst external rotor synchronous motors to drive a very light acrylic (and later polycarbonate) platter. The i...
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Herman, horn dimensions does not described by size of driver but only size of throat. It will be absolutely nothing changed in the horn dimensions if you go from between 10" and 12" driver. Sure you would need a bit larger back side of the horn to ac...
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A few weeks back I bought a CD of Hans Vonk lead Saint Louis Symphony with Bruckner 4. It was not the best Bruckner 4 that I heard – the Saint Louis is not the orchestra that does the best Bruckner but it was a very nice performance, surprisingly...
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Got my Krips’ Schubert 9 today from UK and was playing it today, thanks, Jessie, from the recommendation. The performance indeed a very-very-very good, I mean super good but it goes not has Sound that I was looking for. What Krips and London Symphon...
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Interesting thought about recording time, Robin, if only because we tend to think a live performance is going to be better, warts and all. OTOH, stretching the recording over days in the quest for - whatever - often results in other problems, not ...
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It is imposable do not love Giacomo Puccini. Would it be possible do not be in awe of Tosca? Among the numerous performances of this opera that I have on my shelves there are many great. The De Sabata’s La Scala performance from 1953 with Callas, Di ...
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It is imposable entering the holiday season to walk across Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and do not be “abused” by sound of Nutcracker coming from each open window. I just returned from my 15 minuets walk across Beacon Hill to my favorite Antonio...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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As I process what you have said about "blending integrity" I hear a trumpet blowing right at my face, just like I did last night. But obviously this is my imagination at work. Do you mean in general the way tones exist and integrate ...
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My own experience suggests that it is possible to do speaker-level passive crossovers, but I must qualify that by saying that although I have put a lot into the crossovers themselves, and the wire,etc., etc., it has only been since I got the ML2...
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The only “contemporary “stereo records that I love in past was by Rafael Kubelik with Fischer-Dieskau, Giacomotti and Bergonzi. The orchestral part of that La Scala play is amassing. Still, in my view it is not the best Rigoletto and mono recor...
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First, the Fifth: The first movement is indeed a stunner, nothing comes close. For the rest, I can line up competition. But no matter! The "live" aspect trumps all.The Met, indeed, had its moments but was not a keeper.The Traviata was terrific! Even ...
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If the HT opera idea involves "immersion", then what is it that facilitates this immersion? I think image quality can be exploited with HT, just like any other quality. As for "Fantasia", it is a great example of a film that simply exceeded everyon...
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I do suggest to re-read my post above where I stated that Pacific has remarkably similar sound to Bidat. In Bidat there is one quality that sets it apart from any other converters out there – the Bidat’s dynamic bursts are orders of magnitude less an...
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One of the first hurdles is to reasonably target a TT by listening not only via but "through" a given system. I, for one, have NEVER set out to do this at a showroom where the putative target was not swamped by other "concerns". There may have been...
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As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...
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I love the endless BS that is written about the "ideal" "rigid" connection between the stylus and the groove. Linn did a great version of selling this notion with their LOI spiel targeting the typical OCD hi-fi nerd. Not to say that a stable relati...
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The best investors are usually small, obscure and unknown, whereas all the famous investors and fund managers are same as the worst audio crooks.Interestingly, there is no relationship between price and talent in this field - is almost random chance ...
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While there is much complaint about contemporary reissues of classical music on vinyl, what is the alternative if you don't currently own original pressings? While visiting a friend here in Boston he went through 3 different DG pressings of Listz P...
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It seems to me that in terms of notes and sequences, the themes, broadly speaking, +/- "follow", but the spirit, tempi and mood (at least of the Solti performance), and even the extended chord structures seem somehow disconnected from what has transp...
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I was gifted a mono LP version of this performance, which I have listened to closely but once, with fair electricity. This time I was more impressed with the orchestra/orchestration than the piano playing, which I found to be a bit much, overall, an...
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I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons. I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound. They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now. Also, the price I paid is less than...
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London ffrr, CSA2216,; stereo LPI have always found the first movement of this symphony to be the most musically satisfying part of it, and nothing in the cited performance has changed this old bias. I have to give Solti credit here, however, fo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported...
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Sudwestfunkorchester, Baden-Baden/Jascha Horenstein; Vox, STPL 510-700 (stereo; recorded in Germany)I think that Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is another case of great music that is so universally appreciated that it becomes ubiquitous, and then we begin ...
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You do make me laugh sometimes! You really do seem to have problems in seeing the merits in anything if it doesn't fully satisfy the very particular performance criteria you set. As a species such inflexibility wouldn't allow you to evolve very much ...
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