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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much do not want to sound like I am expressing sarcasm. [/quote] Romy, I don’t treat your comments like expressed sarcasm and I never did it. In my view, your site is the only place in Internet, where fruitful discus...
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A few days back I got rid of the 60-year old Germanium glass diodes in the REL detector and put in there the regular 1N4148 4pF low-signal diodes/ it was quite positive improvement. I need to be said that detector diodes are not the regulars diodes b...
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[quote user="scooter"]Gentlemen:
...*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 audiop...
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I don't remember from my head and would need to watch the video again, and I don't have time right now to watch it again, but IIRC that was about 35min.
At the same time, while I do agree with your initial argument,...
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It sounds like a title from my "World Audio News Section”, doesn’t it?
[quote user="Wojtek"] As a religious supporter (and I guess benefficiary) of junk based, scam & monopol oriented Microsoft why your so angry with audio scam industry operatin...
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I have to admit that I personally care less about powerful full-range SET amplifiers. I do not take their sound seriously, in fact I do not believe they are cable to do “right full-range sound” and what I see then I always imagine them with huge, bar...
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Ok, as now all furniture that I need to be in my new
listening room is in and I have a full green light to finalize the room setup.
I resolved all dilemmas with video vs audio setup and now the main obstacle
that I have is to decide what listening...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, there is an interesting phenomenon that I never was able to understand. I observe Lamm’s show rooms from I think 1998-1999 to 2006 when I did my last audio show. Surprisingly all Lamm rooms at audio shows sound ...
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Nice one with the new video.
I can recommend a good Tasmanian whisky from Lark or Sullivan's Cove. Am partial to a rum cask finish myself during these winter months.
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anth...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation system but it do not automatically implies that the result will be better.[/quote]No, not automatically. But I believe using a minimalist open source op...
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Hi, Max.
When you say “WAV file X burned on CD-R” then the question would be what was the source of those files? If you have a row source with some kind of A/D and if you intend to stay with 44 then 44/20 is OK format, do not stay with for 16 Bit. H...
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https://www.auro-3d.com/hardware/
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[quote user="dazzdax"]Sakuma San is some sort of cult figure among the tube-o-philes. I wonder why he is implementing so many transformers in his amplifiers. Using transformers can be a good thing but in my experience too many transformers give a som...
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Arno, it is great that you express a curiosity about Bruckner
music. I do not feel however a regular recommendation for choosing a good
performance and recording is something that you might need not if you are not familiar
with Bruckner at all. Yo...
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I was listening this morning the Bavarian Radio Symphony touring
Taiwan played Dvorák and Mussorgsky a few days back and once again I was stricken how much
I love the Bydlo from the Mussorgsky 's Picture.
http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/symph...
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A few days ago I was expressing my dissatisfaction with the BS-mania that industry spread about the digital masters.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=7147
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I generally feel that the fairy-tale about the ...
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Yes, JJ, went recently in
many new multimedia ventures. They do upload their concerts to web site and
they have one location (not so easy to find) where they have everything in 192K.
The M8 you mentioned they broadcast live video to downtown Bosto...
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Yes indeed. The company was originally Nova Physics and appears to have been sold on to Sam Laufer, a lawyer by profession originally who brought in Mark Porzilli of Melos and Pipedreams fame. I do not know if this company actually manufactures or se...
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In response to my announcement that my DAW went “caput” I was expecting that people would bombard me with advise do not do PC anymore and try Mac. I was kind of semi-ready for it but… not one bombarded me. In fact a few Mac people I know were not...
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You know, last September is, there was listening event in my listening room,
which completely transformed my vision about audio. It was as profound as it
was for humankind the evolving from Ernestine’s partials to Niels Bohr quantum mechanics.
Lis...
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[quote user="perrew"]
Romy,
from my understanding, this disc called HDAD, contains on one side a DVD-Video resolution, 96/24 and on the other side a DVD-A i.e 192/24 resolution. So the disc on one side can be played in your regular DVD pla...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]. . . because I haven't
seen the setup. All in the same room? (No opera room?) Why can't the main
system be used? Etc. etc.
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Yep, they are in the same room. No opera room anymore. The
reason why I would like ...
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I spend a few hours to
work with my room. Learned that my calibration mic interface does not work with
64 bit windows and I need a new one, so naturally I did not single measurement.
Setup the video system, CD, and LP playback, connected everythin...
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...to call in if you ever did get to Aus. There is plenty to see and experience here, and the weather is great just about all the time. A critical ear applied to my efforts would be most welcome.
[quote user="Romy the...
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EU seeks to extend copyright protection for artists to 95 years By Stephen CastleThursday, February 14, 2008 BRUSSELS: The European Union said Thursday that it would seek to extend copyright protection for singers and musicians to 95 years - rather t...
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I am revising the architecture of my playback in context of benefits
of reverberation fields injection. Certainly, Macondo and Melquiades stay as
they are. I always had a pilot system that runs in parallel with Macondo driven
by a cold SS amp. I u...
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"Gargoyle, YMMV, but I
associate LF propagation/amplification with mass; there has to be some
way to really "anchor" at least the LF driver. "Noted"I was thinking MF for
the felt and/or paper horns, although I guess you could begin with a
chi...
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Collin,I am pleased that you found my suggestions worthwhile.
I approached the issue of your music room with two questions in mind:1- How to avoid the structural angle from interfering with the sound2- Would an enlarged room be worthwhile...
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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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It looks like it was a new trade show a few weeks back in Munich.
I missed the excitement in Munich but the more I read about the trade shows the
more I am glad that I do not attend them from 2005. From what I hear about the Munich
20017 was the e...
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