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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] This week on Thursday and Friday I had two “audio visitors” in my listening room. We did some listening and as it have become customary: they asked me to show something “interesting” or different in my Opera Room. BTW,...
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A few days ago I spoke with a guy that I know form LA who told me about a story about his good friend who started many years ago an audio business in CA. He said that the guy initially hag a genuine interest in sound and music but since years pass by...
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All of us know that we do not share the same perceptions as others. Some of us would readily agree we are on the road to perfecting our ability to perceive and there are others who have convinced themselves they have reached their destination. They...
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Most here are probably familiar with the fact that A/B "blind tests" were popular in the early days of "audio", where listeners seemingly could not distinguish between live sounds and electronic "counterparts" issuing from behind a curtain. Today we...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Maybe a lot of what Romy or Harlanov hear is determined by what they have conditioned themselves hear in a specific way? Maybe we are all victims of our own "conditioning" and need to address this first? What IS amazing to me is t...
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I wrote about it many many times but it keep shook me, primary because it very much violates all intellectual provision I can extend against what I am saying. Today FM again flew my socks off and it was not special FM but objectively crappy FM.
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The Wolf at Our Heels
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune.
By Jan Swafford
Y...
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I was slowly looking for a compression driver that would go in my Fundamental Chanel down to 200Hz. The YL Acoustic 550N attracted my attention. Then I realized that it is the narrow throat type of the drivers, aka WE555, not exactly that I would...
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Romy wrote:"...I will most certainly do not need it to go over 1000Hz, why would I? It is very much not my objective. All the I would like to do it to give to Fundamentals Channel some room from the bottom to breathe..."Three reasons:1) To try hi...
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Romy,It is indeed an interesting subject; I am instinctively drawn to it due to the fact that the majority of orchestral instruments - the majority of my listening is orchestral/chamber/classical soloists - produce their own sound through the resonan...
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[quote user="Morfeas"] Wouldn't comment because using a public forum for free advertisement is not my cup of tea. [/quote]
Morfeas, you of cause might do whatever you wish but I would like to point out that the concept of “free advertisement”...
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Me being exuberant about the new ULF capacity does not necessarily mean that ULF contribution is right and proper, let me to explain. There is a musical event that has it sonic representation. This sonic representation better or worst was captured by...
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I except suggestions and critique. I live in Turkey and I am not living in a city, I live at the coast. It is not possible for me to go and experience most of the stuff first hand. There is no one really interested in horns or have multi-way horn sys...
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[quote user="Telstar"] scooter wrote:* Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audioph...
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It is absolutely amassing how many audio people misunderstand Audio Neutrality. The Audio Neutrality is one of the most import moments of audio reproduction and still it is misunderstood. Not good!
The very first step to begin understanding of real ...
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Well that was my father. We founded the company together - he invests, I researches, mostly. Bruce Edgar and Sam Saye taught me how to design, and we built our first prototype system in California.Think I need a bit more clarification on the five tim...
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There was a big room in there with big Schweikert speakers (with thier grainy and insultingly confident Sound), some king of not particularly good electronics and the entire EMM Labs’ front-end. Many rooms at the show used EMM Labs so-call preamplifi...
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This is my very wet audio dream over the years. I never had a good Chair. My room never allowed me to do so but as I will be moving my wet dream about a perfect listening Chair begin to erect my imagination.
Now I have nice leather couch… I li...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, Nicanor, I very much disagree that room acoustic being basically invisible to us. People who deal with sound more or less intelligent always not only pay attention to room acoustic but recognize sound ONLY in context ...
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I have been observing these phenomena for years and I have no explanation for it. Not that I requires any explaining, BTW…
Pretend that you have a stereo installation where right and left channels produce absolutely symmetrical acoustic output. A sl...
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James,
forget about music, music and audio are separate entities in they should be treated separately. I have written a lot about it before.
In the realm of pure audio “it” exists as a moment of realization. The entire truth however about the “it” ...
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Romy wrote (in blue) : "...The Truth or False categories exist only in world of well defined coordinate systems and certainty of evolutions. In music the rules are different..."In the visual arts the rules are also "different".Taking first the q...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Also do not forget that the phonostage that you built has very lash and very polite sound. [/quote]I would like to stress the politeness and lushness of 834PT-AIR phonocorrector. This characteristic of this phonostage s...
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I am kind of semi-evaluating a power amplifier now and think about the following: there is a correct relation between harmonic content of amplifier and it’s dynamic aptitude.
I have heard many amplifiers that run across the dynamic range with a tre...
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Not all the designers actually mention specific programs, but most seem to agree about the importance of the ripping and playback software.
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]
Depending on the systems capacity to multitask, EAC may not slow gathering al...
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Clark demanded that I, too, concentrate on Bruckner.At first listen I thought it was lacking in that frenzied intelligence of Mahler - too simple. With time I see how idiotic that impression was and my listening to Mahler is almost nil where Bruckne...
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Having listened for a while with the tubes, I have come to some conclusions. The three tubes I have seriously listened to are: Kron, Sophia, and Emission Labs. All the tubes are much better than any other modern 2A3 tubes I have tried. I felt my in...
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Rakesh,
Yes, life is too short but the definition of belter ULF channel is not something that one might learn during "a project next coming weekend". The most important in audio is a state of realization and obtaining this state is a matter of...
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Last weekend, just for fun, I brought the amp and preamp to the 2011 Burning Amp in San Francisco. On the first speakers, the Audio Kinesis, I let the heater warmup for about 15 min, and then switched on the power, the amp was fine, we played...
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