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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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For whatever reason people expressed a lot of interest to Pacific vs. Lavry A/D and I recently got an relatively a large number of emails, including from the people I do not even know, asking me to compare identical analog tracjs and post the foundin...
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Originally written by David Hurwitz and posted at “Classics Today”: SEVEN PHASES IN THE LIFE OF A HARD-CORE COLLECTOR Do You Recognize Yourself Here? I’m sure that some of you have seen that famous little poster called “The Six Phases of a Proj...
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I do not post a lot in musical section of my sire as I interact about my mural at different places. Still here is some update about what is going on in Boston. As we all know James Levine is out and BSO is ownerless. Since the opening the Tanglew...
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As a few weeks back NYT published an article about 10 greatest composers that made any forum on web to come up with own list. I do not want to propose my own version of the List; I am interested in a different aspect. I post sometimes at Google C...
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I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio. If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...
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It is not about low voltage buttery power, tube version with 200 pounds power supply, CRL filtration, no-transformer gain or air capacitors. The topology that we might or might not admit to comply with the concept of “acceptable phonostage” is co...
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I am in minor scale mode toady and play mostly chamber music and only records. FM broadcasts with all their majesty are hardly objective tool to assess what doing on with audio. So, I play records and tapes. Besides everything I am trying to figu...
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[quote user="mats"] As I write this, WFMT is playing The Planets, Sir Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Phil, and it is rather amazing.Complex passages resolved as I would expect were I using my Goldmund transport.I prefer the digital out, 24/48 ...
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OK! - I will listen to the Barbi/Brahms 4 some more![quote user="Romy the Cat"]
JANDL100 wrote:
By the way - have you had a chance to listen yet to the Shostakovich Piano Quintet played by the Trio di Torino that I sent.&nbs...
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We would not use Mahler’s orchestra to play Haydn’s symptoms and we would not use Palestrina’s orchestra to play Brahms. It is not even the deferent time period but rather a different set of expressive tools the symphonic and chamber orchestras u...
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It was yesterday around 4 PM – I viciously took it off and decided never use it again. I was listening Brahms German Requiem with James Levine and BSO – a phenomenal performances in my view and one moment after being offended by each note the F...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Two hours after the end of the glorious Götterdämmerung from MET, I was sitting at the D row, center sit of Jordan Hall right in front of conducting podium of Boston Philiharmonic and Natalia Gutman. What can I say? I ...
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I truly love that. Sometimes in the randomness of internet audio idiocy there are events where I become sort of epicenter of bashing. I say “sort of” as they do not discuss my personally or what I stay for but instead the intent Morons mostly sh...
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Japanese are very strange people and fortunately sometimes this strangeness manifest itself in very cool way. For years I fish in Japan for some interesting recordings. Sometimes the Japanese folks release something that is not available anywhere els...
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For Starters of Classical Music.By David King (Amphissa)
SuggestionPick up a copy of a good introductory overview book, like Goulding's Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works which discusses many (not all) of the...
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I have mention Daniel in the Julia Fischer’s thread and posted a clip with him playing the Brahms Double Concerto
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=10119
Today I woke up, turned on my Schwartz and heard a ve...
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People who know me know that if I person does audio then it does not automatically imply that he is my best friend. I generally do not bring “just audio people” in my home and if I do then they are selected people who I feel might have a potentia...
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Just listened to Gould’s unusual Brahms Intermezzi (See Music Board) via
the Loudspeakers for the first time. The speakers were powered by the MA-9S2s. Of
course I’ve noticed before how Gould deconstructs these pieces. Today I took
advantage o...
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Today it was a phenomenal broadcast from Tanglewood! Kurt Masur led the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with all Brahms program: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Garrick Ohlsson and the Symphony No. 2. To insult the injury the WGBH precluded the live ...
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Via Mengelberg’s performance of Ein deutsches Requiem, Philips CD
Perhaps it’s possible for someone to “get” Brahms’ Ein deutsches
Requiem by way of a table radio. Speaking for myself, I only got hints that way,
and it wasn’t until I took speci...
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"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 tu...
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I reread my posts at
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11547
and
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=3981
and
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostI...
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Last week I spent a few hours at the scene of NY’s Stereophile Show – HE 2004: a half-day on Thursday and 2 hours on Friday. As many other audio-shows it had many semi-ugly colorations, however as any audio shows this zoo trip brought it’s own “inter...
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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT)
http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Oh, good, why did not you tall it before. How the hell can
you listen if it you DAC outputs 1V?! No wonder you have no volume. Also if you
have no voluble you do not “get” one of the most advanced feature of multi-amp ...
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Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on
Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no
entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this
was no help either.. (its only now...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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I am not following the products as I use to do in past, do not buy anything in audio and do not look forward to. Sometimes I look on-line what is our on in audio industry and what is more and more amazes me the level of obnoxiousness , impunity a...
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They offer 24/88 downloadable and thanks God they do not record the Audiophile Blues or the similar crap. This is a good part. The bad part is that they record at 4X and then outsource the file to vireos industry cretins to “master” them, pushing...
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Here is a very interesting double LP set from the old DDR, "Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Musik in der Wedeler Kirche". Other information on the gatefold jacket includes: Heidrun Heinke, Sopran; Gustav Hehring, Bass; Kantorei Kamm...
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