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[quote user="Stitch"]One of my audiophile Friends did it the only way a real man has to do (he had a HUGE stereo System with 2 big monos and fat cables everywhere in his living room)He showed that his girlfriend (they married btw.) and said to her:"Y...
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[quote user="Gregm"]"What the purpose to use audio that does not filter out bad performances or to read a reviewer who does not know how to use this ability of playback systems? "
I don't quite understand the first part of your note.[/quote]
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Wow, the Definitive Audio is half hours away from London, this is good news. I did look at Google and it said 2.45 Hours but I might look some at something different. We probable will be staging near Royal Abler Hall, which is center city. We are ver...
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[quote user="muddasir"]Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through appli...
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Amy and I were listening last night Bruckner 8, the last one recorded in 1988. It is fine performance but very much vandalized by DG technicians with truly horrible sound. Amy does not knowledge all those audio sonic aspects. For the 1.5 years that w...
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The last year there was some chatter up about artificially created so called “digital drugs”. If you are not familiar with it get familiar here for instance:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2008-08-07-digital-drugs_N.ht...
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You will find a very basic motto or life theme here that keeps recurring:Random efforts produce random results!In relation to audio, this means that buying somebody elses best of everything does not lead to a personal superior result.Basically proces...
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I mean that you put the most of the people hanging around public sites into the same bag. I think there are several different categories:- The ones that have limited exposure to music and audio, they really don't care about music, and their exig...
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The Mravinsky’s and his orchestra trip to Austria in 1960 and this recording of the last 3 Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies are well known. I am sure any of us have a number of Italian pressed box-sets with 3 records of this performance. Yes, the Mravinsky’s...
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My room, is 16 to 17 feet wide, 27 to 28 feet long by 12 to 14 feet high with all walls splayed, with a combination of absorption and diffusion on the walls. All electronics are fed electricity by three pure power units originally recommended by Rom...
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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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Vakman, thank for properly formulating our question, it is
not frequently happening. First things first: do not buy or replace
anything. It is impossible to get answers
or diagnose any problem by wiping out what currently in existing and barbaric...
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One of the greatest and the most important things for me in power amplifiers is their ability to differentiate tones. When you listen live music you practically never hear two identical tones. Even two identical pitches presented after the diff...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"]Fourth - What DCMB has achieved ? a) simplicity b) speed c) no frequency discrimination d) wider frequency range e) suppression of the PSU noises ( I owe this claim to a Canadian fr...
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This weekend the new 6-chenal Milq is not finished yet design-vise but functionally is already “there”. The amp was good enough to play with other 3-chenal Milq. Firstly for the last month I was able to listen full stereo from Macondo…. I spend some ...
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[quote user="rowuk"]I am always a bit hesitant to buy into "listening descriptions". I am a musician and am confronted every day with Sound bias - attraction to what we are accustomed to, expectations being confirmed. We are creatures of habit and mo...
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Max,
if you do admit an existence of “higher order language” then why you disagree that “a serious playback might generate a “very serious semantics”? An exposure to a “very serious playback” is an experience and we human tend to react to own spark...
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I was listening yesterday the Karajan 1976 performance of Bruckner 5 with Berlin Philharmonic. It is one of the greatest fifth I know off and I love it tremendously. I am not sure what happened but I think I lost consciousness listing the perfor...
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[quote user="enjoy_the_music"]Evening cats on the tiles,What a great website...first post here, if i am supposed to post elsewhere then apologies!Hopefully i can learn a lot here! CheerioRichard[/quote]Richard, welcome.
If you fell that this site is...
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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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Hi,[quote user="morricab"]Hmmm....I guess I can't really see that unless you are enjoying a particular coloration you are getting from the TVC.[/quote] Nope. On this you are wrong. Based on direct bypass tests the TVC's I USE (that is the specif...
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First major audio observation that I made is that my Super Melquiades should be revised. After a year and a half of using the amp I came across to some conclusions that outlined the prospective changes in my DSET.
1) The phase inverters after...
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[quote user="hifitodd"] I am interested in how you personally discovered dpols for your own personal reference. You Say: If this is the case, then how did you first come about dpols? Given that DPoLS cannot be "stumbled upon". [/quo...
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[quote user="Hugh"]The rewards of ideal speaker placement is something I've experienced as well and perhaps is related to DPLOS or possbily audio-moronism. While not easy to find or predictable between speaker brands the result is consistant.&n...
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"Once again, it would not be the unified answer and it all depends HOW YOU USE IT. "
You might built better audio or learn to develop more sensitive
perception and you end up with the same results. This why I, staring
from a certain level, refuse ...
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[quote user="Jorge"]I tend to think that we are not copying Romy, but more that he has generated a school of thought on audio and yes horns speakers also.I too have a system following some of the Macondo Axioms, but have used all diferent drivers.As ...
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Glancing a few days back over the latest TAS magazine I come across at the first pages Robert Harley’s article about a Asian guy who has zillion turntables, speakers setups and listening rooms in his home… Robert, wrote in his blog about that guy: “T...
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Dear Romy and Adrian:
Thank you for taking the time to contemplate my inquiry and respond in such detail. I am just outside of Boston, and agree that the local FM menu is quite good and is a great way of discovering new music; reception is always...
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Complicating this issue is the idea of differentiating sounds from the Sound. My way of thinking about this is that the sounds are the products of the stereo reproduction system. Ideas like bass, treble, transient response, and soundstage are common...
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Thanks, Jessie. I just will buy that Beswick Engineering valve, it looks like it is the right size and it look like it will do what I need
I made some experiments applying large gaskets to cover of the back chamber. I used a gaskets up to 12 mm but ...
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