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"I invited Clark but he sold his soul to Devil and went to Tanglewood for the concert."
Indeed I did go, for I had bought the ticket back in April. As for the Devil part, there had been no selling and therefore no satanic transaction.
Plus a...
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Romy would seem to have the right full summary here....
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...about digital audio, but fortunately some of us know that we do not know. And yet many if not most in the field (especially for instance the guy who moderates Audio Asylum's Computer Audio forum, can't recall his name) are scandalously smug. Such...
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http://breaksetnetwork.com/hollywood-venue-to-unleash-the-worlds-largest-subwoofer-club-installation/
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Dave used to show (off) this system in the largest room available at CES. Lines formed and IIRC reservations were taken. I auditioned it twice and each time was the best BIG SOUND I had ever heard. Only, he wasn't careful about correct polarity.
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Nor even *of* it. Not a huge vonK fan here, but when he's on...
For my money the man to have in this work is Mengelberg.:
http://www.pristineclassical.com/paco012.html
Willem Mengelberg, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Toonkunst Choir, Ma...
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Still, one wonders how the Blu-ray audio sounds....
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I just did it and found only four -- still too many, though.
I could go for two maybe.
c...
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What a pleasant bunch we are!
How does everyone know what's in this new kid's heart and mind?
Has he indeed been flooding the Net?
Is he a surreptitious employee of M-L?
Does that Stones concert recording have great sound, or not? Who's h...
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From Clark Johnsen's Diaries: When Harry Met Clarkie, or, Harry Pearson, R.I.P.
(Only my oldest, dearest friends call me "Clarkie", so be careful – but it does make for a better title, so, yeah. / The author)
When I first met Harry it was on th...
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I like what Romy has written. It's clear to me that Harry fell into a role he had neither created nor perhaps even wished, and he stepped away when he realized what had become of it all. (Not to forget his inept business management.)
I've written ...
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These are delivered on CDs and therefore the source recordings must be blamed....
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Fast or slow?
I think maybe anyone who responds to Sketches of Spain would tolerate "slow". So: The Eighth's third movement.
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That's exactly what I was going to say....
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I propose that the polarity convention of every part of the audio chain be identified and this information made available to establish the net polarity of the reproduced sound relative to the original performance... There is truly no aspect of the au...
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Some of the greatest performances ever recorded are on that "limited" medium, yet people return to them time and again for musical satisfaction, seeming not to miss "extended frequency response and dynamic range" or "noise-free reproduction".Let me p...
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"As for the preamp, realistically 70db is a very large dynamic shift for most music as you note. A preamp that could do 70db perfectly would be much superior IMO to one that did 90db in mediocre fashion."Bingo! And therein lies the problem with digit...
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"The problem with the playback words dynamics and micro/macro dynamics is that they have have no relation to richness, rather just to the leading edge, difference between soft and loud."
No, it's way more than...
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In addition I have to wonder if all the components are correctly aligned vis-a-vis their leakage-current orientations. The measurement is easily made, although sometimes the plugs will have to be reoriented 180°, which requires "cheaters" and an outb...
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I have a standalone duplicator and the copies almost always outperform the originals -- and they are never worse.But I have heard computer-made copies that are okay, so...cj...
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Or anyway about that quote by Gordon.There are two epigrams I've often quoted in this connection. The first is from conductor Roger Norrington:Music is not about sound.The second is my own:Audio is a damn distraction from the music.c...
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Can't get enuff of that good stuff!...
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The first movement went terrifically well -- Rhythmically alert, quickly paced and beautifully shaped. It reminded me of the Weingartner recording, and of the Thomas/Pittsburgh I once heard on the radio while sitting in the car. Difference is, the la...
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Next let's you acquire a few and tell us the results. ;-)...
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Thanks for the tip, I may even skip it on the broadcast. Back in '69 I heard the London Phils do the B9 under Haitink in the Royal Festival Hall. It was pretty much what Romy says about the Eschenbach.Want a great but barely known recording? The Muni...
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