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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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I was cleaning my old file server and found my old associations after auditioning some of High End gear... Atma-Sphere Lying in a bathroom with the bathtub filled with motor oil. Spectral Begging for any liqu...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] One of the things that solicited me to try the APS unit was the assurance of the APS guy (Richard) that what I run ASP unit from internal battery + regeneration vs. the plugged in wall + regeneration ….I should hear no dif...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Given speakers that can be driven dynamically by single stage amplification, there remain a host of issues, and among those issues is color. Most compression drivers are color-challenged to begin with…[/quote]
I would agr...
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Preparing for my Midbass Channel projects
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=13597
…I did inventory if the drivers that I might use for it. I never did it before as the all were in different storages, now they a...
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I was pointed out to the fact the Magico has a new idea of their 5 way horn-loaded speaker. I did review the Magico former 4-way project, it was very bad:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=2103
The new one l...
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Ah, such a beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful discovery!
After all, after the years of dealing and fighting with it I come up with the observation that the Vitavox S2 driver could and actually should be used “as is”. The harshness that I was re...
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[quote user="Johan Dreyer"]I call this the "pulsating room effect" Here there is a sensation of the air in the room actually pulsating to the sound.This is not boom but a sense of sheer energy being transmitted.Unlike music simply being played way to...
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In reply Paul,
My original post specifically mentioned that my comments perhaps did not apply to you. I am well aware from reading many of your posts that you have reached a level of maturuty and experience to be able to identify nuances(vecto...
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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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As I said a few days back it was a big event in my life: I bought October TAS magazine in book store
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11954
Doing it a few times in year is so wonderful journey into the realm of id...
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From: Romy Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:37 PMTo: ****Cc: **** Subject: The Tanglewood LIVE problem: 3 millisecond delay
To WGBH production and technical stuffCC: to WCRB production and technical stuff
Guys,
I know that kept harassi...
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Steve Schell pointed to Bill Woods’ site aka RCAfan.
http://www.acoustichorn.com/
I do not know the guy but the site looks attractive. Some of his old large horns are interesting as so on… however, what make me to wonder is the horns that Bill Woo...
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Yes, it turned out to be the emails from GOTO importer. I am not completely understood if the horn at the picture above is an official GOTO product. The Ming Su said that the horn was build locally by Jeffrey Jackson with the support of GOTO but then...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Michaelz wrote:
Where does this come from? It coming from a danger that we all under what we think about those things. With all our desire to equate loudspeaker with a musical instrument this co...
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Haralanov,
Here some raw cements of my on it, without any particular order of importance….
1) Sand damping it beautiful, it is well-recognized, but you do pay cost for it, in your case the cost is space. Sand is very little compressibl...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I will be waiting for the February 24 with my tail trammeling…[/quote]Well, I went last Saturday to see the long-expected MET Broadcast. It was generally positive experience but it had own “apocalyptical” tones… “I do not ...
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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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If you followed, a few days ago in the conversation with “Michaelz” I was spinning my usual plot, bitching that most of the today’s pianists play, unintelligent as senseless, almost like with the "rubber fingers”:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/...
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I am listening the Gary Karr’s double bass take on Bach Solo Suites. I like it and I do not. It is a controversial take as most of what Gary Karr did – some things are truly brilliant and some are just bad taste in my view. I still trying to fi...
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Another particle of a good Horn Propaganda. It was published in Sound Practices in 1994 and written by Joe Roberts. I disagree with quite many of the author’s statements but his strategic view that the majority of the horns and the horn installations...
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ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER COMPARISON by Kostas Metaxas
Procedure:
In all cases except for the KORG MR-1000, SOUND DEVICES SD744T and METRIC HALO[used with an Apple Laptop], I fed the outputs of the Stellavox SM8 to the A-D converter inputs [...
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[quote user="rowuk"] 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...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD (Playable on all DVD players)
HOLST - THE PLANETSSir Adrian Boult · Vienna Academy Chorus · Vienna State Opera OrchestraA forgotten Westminster re...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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I got an email from a site visitor with an interesting question:
“I wonder. Has age and fatherhood narrowed the focal point of listening habits?
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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