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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night Levine and BSO played a phenomenal Mahler 5, truly great play. I had some issues with BSO sound and I probably will bring it up to them. Tonight I decided to listen the M5 broadcast for the first time and I ...
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[quote user="serenechaos"] I think Romy's just jealous of all those conical horns, as endorsed by "he who shall not be named..." (sorry, to me, they're the distraction when looking @ this installation. I just keep thinking how colored every conical...
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[quote user="Serge"] The sound I like most was the one at Audio Tekne's room. I never listened to them before. The speakers were very ugly. I'd say extremely ugly. And 4-way, drive units arranged as if by chance. The big ugly turntable cost 53000 eur...
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Jim, It is the super tube – you forgot to mention the amount of noise with its transconductance…. You use the 7788 as a driver to drive 2A3? This is kind of strange: the 7788 has relatively low bias and a typical line voltage should sent 7788 deep in...
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Today a guy I know from south coming to my listening room to hear my payback. He is mingling with horns, he heard my installation in city and he is very much interested to hear my new listening room and the most important my new midbass horn. He actu...
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I know it is a difficult subject but as it has to do less with audio but more with life priorities. Still, the practice indicates that the short-wall installations for acoustic systems of the topology that Steve is trying to make will never work. Sur...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Amphissa wrote: So, I do not think Pletnev will go to jail.….This means we will continue to have lots of very bad music from Mr. Pletnev for many years to come. The boy was asking for a “pianist” but Pletnev was thinking t...
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Eventually I have found the Bruckner Second symphony that is played how I feel it need to be played. The recording is from 1973: Horst Stein lead the mighty Wiener Philharmoniker. I got my CD on Decca Eloquence. This is unspeakably wonderful and I h...
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Listening today Scharwenka Piano Concerto No1 by Earl Wild and BSO under Erich Leinsdorf. I am not so wild about the concerto, there is a reasons why all 4 Scharwenka’s concertos are on second and their tears of piano concertos repertoire. However, ...
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[quote user="JJ Triode"] My reaction is that, arrangement- and performance-wise, it would make excellent elevator music in something like a Marriott [/quote] Yes, this is very accurate observation and this type of music very dominates the stupid audi...
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Yes, and particularly what enjoy with Patricia Barber (which is perfectly fine artist, BTW) that then when I go to the homes of an ordinary American audiophile then they have $90.000 worth of recommends Stereophile components and no more then entire ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Oh, David, come on! Can you for a second to stop to be a pretentious been counter and look at the picture from slightly more elevated perspective? I am glad that you do not worship the expensive parts, unique design, and pr...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]About the new Micro TT, I do think that this is essentially the Micro 8000 with contemporary face lift and it shall sound like Micro 8000. It might be a little better or little worse, no one knows and frankly no one would/s...
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I was waiting someone last night in “Borders” and whale I was waiting I glanced through the current “Absolute Sound Magazine”. There was there a very short article with Prof. Johnson telling about his “new” HRx format. I smell some dead fish in what ...
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[quote user="tuga"] I am now more inclined to describe that sound as a portrait taken in broad daylight with some overpowering fill-in flash (I believe nowadays this technique is quite fashionable)... But the model wasn't wearing any makeup. [/quote]...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]I heard the Orgon and I didn`t notice any electronic colorations. The midrange of course doesn`t have the sweetness of an SET, but is the most realistic I have heard from a piece of hifi. The two things on my wishlist would be mor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that I am not a huge fun of TAD drivers. They have a good bacterially clean sound but truly nothing really special. Rgs, Romy the Cat[/quote]If everything in a recording / playback chain was clean in the sen...
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One more thing I would like to add: what if despite of the oversized throat problems we have a task (as you, NL, proposed) to use the overthroat horns (overthroat - horn with oversized throat size, let it be one more Romynizm). I think the dealing wi...
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I am not sure what you say. You said that you are able to do time alignment by by-ear listening “a well known single instrument recordings, then to more complex and textured recordings”… Can you tell me what you are listing for while you are doing it...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Also, I'm convinced that a too-big space is horrible for audio as well as being non-conducive to good mental concentration (some of the best ideas are born on the toilet!) [/quote]
The subject of playback in very...
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[quote user="cv"] That said, I do have is a single 160Hz/1.5" finally up and running on a compression driver, and it's a different world - stunning. Actually the results are exactly as JJ described. [/quote] The JJ, is it Jeffrey Jackson? I have no i...
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Decoud, in order to say anything useful I would like to know to the following: 1) Where the tweeter will be installed? 2) What the size of the room? 3) What are you planning to install the speaker in your room? 4) What LF solution do you consider...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]acoustical impedance transformation gives no explanation to the practical applied sound that you might get from a horn.[/quote]
i am sure there must be differences between theory and practice. i would like to know what ...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"] It may be asking too much to expect the LF horn to play well up to and beyond 250Hz. [/quote] I would expect this horn to go much lower, let say doe to 150Hz. You if it was a front firing horn without loading to a boundary...
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Actually another idea that I was "considering" was to put a sound-absorbing screen inside of the bell. I used it a few years about and it worked very well. I needed very slightly to roll-off a MF driver and I was not able to use indictors. I ended up...
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Dear CatYour facts about Plasma Tweeters are incorrect. It is so far off that it is useless discussing it."I feel that that their Sound is very muck syntactic" ..."I feel the plasma tweeters take the sub-dynamic, deneuralized sound of electrostats to...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I do not know what you new buffer is. A few notes. The difference between sub 10R and 300R of output impedance is significant for the load you have (Milq) between your new buffer and your 10Y preamp. The type of th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"].....it is scare how good it is and how good the new Melqs handled it with … almost smile.[/quote]Since almost 3 years ago I was introduced to Milq it went a long way. There was two full-rage Milq ever built by me – one was...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I did not expected that the main impediments in the super Milq project will be the organization (sound) of the filters, particularly the high-pass filters. [/quote] After some experiments it looks like the input stage of t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I think this requires me to raise my voice as I feel that this presumption is very common and unfortunately very mistaken. Melquiades might NOT be a solution... A person should evolve his reference points and his assessmen...
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