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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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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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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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We spent many days to unpacking and I am sure the final unpacking
will take for a while. The listening room is being repainted and it is all in boxes.
What is very interesting that while do unpacking I discovered in the new house
a new room. The h...
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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 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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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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[quote user="Lx_"]The effects on sound can be described either globally or in details. Globally the music flows less, the sense of musical phrasing is diminished, sound tends to tighten, feel constricted, dynamics are also reduced. When trying to...
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Last week in a different thread I posted:"I've been reading about
the acoustic characteristics of the world's great symphony halls, like
Boston and the Concertgebouw. Did you know that Sabine, Berenak, and
Cyril Harris mathematically defined t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote:I am not sure how large to make the filter caps for
the DHT channel. At this stage I think I will start at 3000uF and perhaps
try altering it a little up or down once the system is stable. Hm, it is depend...
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The story of my great discoveries about this:At school I was teased by Sherlock Holmes. I always get to the truth and to any secrets. I'm still doing great left hook. I was the only left-handed, it was my advantage. So little to me who was fighti...
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[quote user="JJ
Triode"]As a separate system, I am surprised you mention something like
Dunlavys--what happened to Cetla Ledom 91? [/quote]
JJ, the Cetla Ledom 91
would be nice but it is quote demanding size-wise. I can accommodate the size
bu...
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[quote user="JLH"] I don't recall you talking about Pressure and Tone SPL before. [/quote]
http://www.RomyTheCat.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=3675
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I know this effect but if it happen with bass h...
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It certainly has nothing to do with my ear or with being
acceptable. We attribute too much attention frequently to a topology/hardware and
too little to specific efforts over given implementations. So, what is the
subject? The Multicellular horns?...
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Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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Hello Romy,"Frank, I do not generally participate in the “technical discussions” about the tonearm design"I took the freedom and checked your participation in related threads and found your statement not to be true."Saying, all of it I
hope that you...
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WGMS Ditches Its Old Format But Helps Orchestrate Its Revival On WETA
By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, January 23, 2007; C01
Washington radio station WGMS dropped the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky yesterday after nearly six decad...
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... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning…
Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas…
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468
The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...
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Well, after all I was pointed out to the place where the annoyed wonna-be-Magico-owners came from:
http://forums.avguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=349&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50
Nothing new, I well accustomed to the satiations when pro...
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Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Leipzig/Herbert Kegel;
Rundfunkchor, Leipzig/Jorg-Peter Weigle; Mari Anne Hoggander, soprano;
Siegfried Lorenz, baritone. Recorded in the Paul Gerhardt Kirche, Leipzig, 1985.
Brilliant Classics CD, 2012.
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It is interesting lately to think about a new listening room
as a concept. We looked at a few good house that for this or that reason did
not work for us and one had a very good listening room, just a phenomenal location
in the house. A tall cathe...
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Yesterday I have a great listening time. I sent Amy with twins
to her parents. I put Thomas to sleep in his room and as he woke up I set him
to watch his Caillou for hours and I went to my listening room to have nice quality
time with my playback....
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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Opening nights, opening minds
Innovative new conductors in LA, NY challenge the BSO to do more
By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff | October 18, 2009
Opening night concerts at the most esteemed orchestras are usually a bit of a ...
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BEETHOVEN MASS IN C MAJOR Karl Richter Conducting the Munich Bach
Choir and Orchestra
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On the eve of an ambitious BBC retrospective, Adam Sweeting reports on the controversies that still surround the composer's death
In summer 2005, the BBC launched a blitz of round-the-clock Beethoven on TV and radio in what was supp...
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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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These are a bunch of test files someone did to compare convertors, just pro-audio stuff. I found the link on GearSpace (former GearSlutz) sometime ago, and I don't remember which were the others electronics involved, except (IIRC) everything was ...
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