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Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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The next week you need to be dead to skip Boston’s Symphony Hall.
This week James Levine returns from his long medical sabbatical with all-Wagner program. Levine looks like fine nowadays and this week he conducted Metropolitan. BSO is perfectl...
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Nope is it now what extraterrestrials would love but rather we would be able to offer to them to demonstrate what our Earth Classical Music (let say Western music) is all about.
When in 1977 Voyager was sent into deep space then the golden phonograp...
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A year or so ago (I do not know exactly when it started as I but audio publication irregularly) I have see that Wilson Audio begin to advertise their new loudspeakers as the design inspired by David Wilson’s revelation after he was sitting at...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The major minor thing remains to find different lower bass. I said “minor” thing as my lower bass is not bad, in fact I do insist that it is very proper lower bass as I did set it up lately properly…..Despite that I in...
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Do not believe me, I do not believe myself! I would like to tell you honestly that if this thing would be said by other person I would accept it as a pure BS because I have no reasoning to believe that it might be true…. but it is what actually what ...
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Since the September 3, the Bruckner birthday is coming California and Connecticut have announced their annual Bruckner Marathons:
West Coast Brucknerathon:
Overture in G minor: Asahina / New Japan Philharmonic (live, JVC, 1980) Sy...
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When I think about Sound of Playback then I imply a complex mix of dimensions from many different threads of live. Sure sound of playback is a rendition of what is recorded but it also might be anything else.
All playbacks sound different and ...
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http://home.flash.net/~park29/koussevitzky.htmAnd in a nice big box:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005TS0B/102-0376091-0067332?n=5174Along the way I found this appreciation of K's Rachy 3rd:
My Favorite Stereo 3rd, April 19, 2005
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To facts:
1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692
sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...
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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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Well, I was thinking about that “Resonating Oops” for a while. I made quite a number of experiments. I some cases I was able to get interesting results but the “Resonating Oops” is very illusive. I do know that many readers of my site have wrong perc...
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Well, be afraid to get what you wish people say and it is exactly what happens in this thread: last week I expressed curiosity about the tapped horns and today I have more information about them than I wished. I appreciate John, Robert, Tom and ...
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Hi Rich, Romy, all
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Romy ,
I think for many people it's not even possible to reach a level of musical spiritual force. I've talked to Dr. Edgar at length about this,he and I believe that to have this feeling about music,...
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Hi Romy,Just the Nanut Mahler would be really great. 80) (I already have Nanut's Mahler 1 4 5 & 6).Anything else that you rate highly would also be most interesting & welcome (I tend not to listen to much oper...
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Well Ronnie, welcome to the world of classical music! Tschaikovsky 4th
is actually my favourite Tschaikovsky symphony (Mravinsky!), followed
by the 6th symphony (also Mravinsky). The 4th is dramatic, dynamic and
opera like, the 6th is tragic: when...
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This miserable Japanese freaks did it again!
For years the Scherchen Mozart Requiem 1953 performance was available only on the Westminster LP and at few privet low quality CD transfers, The Universal/DG has the wonderful transfer (289 471 201-2) of&...
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I have been thinking how to position my playback in my new
listening room. It is a cathedral ceiling with chopped top and the room is set
in a way that I can do both positioning of playback: along the room center beam
and perpendicular to it. Tha...
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...because I do listen to rock, jazz & blues. Indeed, this is ~25% of my music content.
deemon wrote:
Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to...
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Well, we were thinking to rent out the old hours, there are obvious
cones and pros but the topic would not rise to the subject of this site. What interests
me in context of the site is the requirement to the new listening room. I still
would like ...
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http://www.ovationtv.com/music/classical/index.aspx?genre=1&subgenre=14&tab_id=1&subtab_id=14DIRECTV TO ADD OVATION TV TO NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT LINEUPSatellite Launch Targeted for Mid-2007 Nearly Triples Network's CarriageLos Angeles, CA...
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A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting:
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...
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It is imposable to live in Boston…and particularly since I installed that large directional rotatable antenna on my roof and able to get everything high quality from Rhode Island to New Hampshire. The only problems that I see… is the hard drive space...
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Hi Romy,
I have recently sent out my S2s for major cleaning/recharging job.
Pictures should be on the internet soon and I will post link if anyone
is interested. In the meantime I am listening to a typical
2-way in sealed encl...
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I think I have too much time on my hands or use my time in highly stupid fashion but I decided to do today the experiment about witch I was thinking for a while. The experiment was “methodology clean” and lead me to quite interesting discoveries. Sin...
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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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I should not even stress more that I do not like people at DIYAudio.com. The domination majority of them incredible idiots and the brightest among them… do not really have any perspective what audio is all about. I do admit that in some seldom cases ...
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gay cowboys and drag queens doing erotic dances find their way into Tchaikovsky's ``Eugene Onegin'' in Munich.
The Polish stage director, Krzysztof Warlikowski, turns this classic romance into a gay love triangle, and was roun...
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The First AnnualEast Coast Brucknerathon!
Friday & Saturday, September 4 & 5
Hosted by John Berky & Ken Jacobson at Ke...
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[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing. The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...
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In the audio world my judgments is known as vitriolic but looking at myself from outside I find myself being overly pleasurable and expending too much credit to the wrong people and wrong events.
Recently I read a new review in 6Moons about t...
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