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Romy,I somehow feel that you should look into the vibration induced resonances that those rooftop horns might create.I'm not really familiar with the all-wood building techniques used in that side of the Atlantic but I have a hunch that unless you ei...
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I have just bought tickets to her solo performance here in Lisbon.The program is as follows:Domenico ScarlattiSonata em Sol maior, K.427Sonata em Si menor, K.87Sonata em Mi maior, K.380Sonata em Sol maior, K.455Robert SchumannEstudos Sinfónicos, op.1...
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For those seeking convenience or the plain lazy there's an interesting and very affordable gadget from Van den Hul:
POLARITY CHECKERWorks without a battery, thus is always ready for use !
Its liquid crystal display safely senses and indicates the v...
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Our milage varies and in my case it's still quite short.In any case, I would place glare on top of my list of appalling qualities of modern high-end loudspeakers.This glare (unlike clarity) results from an exaggerated high frequency response that pro...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]tuga, I do not like this explanation, it is very confusing and self-contradictive. The Digital Volume controls (with a few very seldom exceptions) do bits-depth conversion and toss the bits with each new volume setting. Thi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
The last two weeks I have no preamp in house. I have great vintage EVS attenuators but I can’t use them with Melquiades as they talk with Milq’s input filters absolutely killing sound. The only way I can play music thos...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Here is the Roy Gregory’s take on Zanden 2500S CD Playerhttp://www.avguide.com/review/the-zanden-model-2500s-cd-playerMuch must more sane comments and much less idiotic aplomb that had came from the SoundStage.com guy.S...
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[quote user="Axel"]
for me, in answer to your first question.Another example comes to mind is: Ernest Hemingway and his writings. To me he is a skill-less dabbler (German = Stümper), but to others -- some elevated free-spirited writer re-defining ...
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Here's an even more extraordinarily long 30" arm from [url=]Horo[/url].(images and info from 6moons website)It appears to be shaped like a violin bow.The piano-like plinth is a bit kitsch, though, and those legs look very flimsy...Cheers,Ruga...
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If you were to decide on departing from the conventional living(slash)listening-room, you could try adapting the design of La Jolla Neurosciences Institute's auditorium:
[IMG]http://i911.photobucket.com/albums...
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As Wagner once said to his friend Nietzsche at the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth"remove your spectacles, music is only to be listened to"Cheers,Ric...
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[quote user="Marc HENRY"]hi all,
thanks for your interest !
yes the frame is curved, HF and MF are //
yes there is a phase plug in the bass horn. This cover 80-300Hz.
there is a separate infra-bass section, covering 20-80Hz.
images of the bass p...
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Musique Concrete stopped selling horns a while ago and are now manufacturers of commercial horn loudspeakers.As for the "Grande Castine", I think that the MF section is in fact the MF/LF section and the frame is indeed curved.Cheers,Ric...
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[quote user="Markus"]Some rather astonishing features. I'm very interested to hear it.[/quote]Hello Markus,The Castine prototype was discussed a while ago in [url=http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=6119#6119]this[/url] thread an...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Here's my latest hallucination :So I'm sitting there listening and sucking down a beer, when, à propos de rien, it comes to me; more on how to neutralize a suspended floor. After shoring it up with screw jacks (which btw, ...
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I've just bumped into an "architectural" installation of concrete horns built into the house:
I know that most north american houses are not built this way (concrete structure and walls) but it will at least show you what can be done.Cheers,Ric...
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After buying Channel Classics' re-issue of Rachmaninov S2 by Fischer and Budapest FO in their low cost Canal Grande series I contacted the company to enquire if there were any differences between this and the original CD.
Here's ...
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This was taken from a crazy article by a mad brazilian, an original Hi Fi News (March'80) drawing of Britain's largest cinema horn (~5,20m2 mouth).Could such a design solve your time-alignment problem?Cheers,Ric...
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[quote user="Axel"]is what I assume that your CD's source is all about. So it could be in deed a problem having used the 'original' master tape (analogue) which might have had a slight problem, stretched, or issues with the equipment speed (slight sp...
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[quote user="zycomatique"]
Thanks a lot!Do you have a link too of the Orgue enterprise?Have a good day: David
[/quote]Hi David,Try contacting Luk at webmaster(a)leyun-music.com.Cheers,Ric...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Jessie’s comments about my idea to position midbass straight horns from basement, upper- firing and his warning that the horn will get converted into a giant garbage can made me to think. I did not think about it but it is ...
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Romy,I know you are against a dedicated listening room but if you were to consider occupying the basement you could try an organic [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Tower]Erich Mendelsohn-like[/url] design that would incorporate the midbass ...
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I'm not sure if this is being broadcasted in the States but here's this year's program of the BBC Proms: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/whatson/season/ Best,Ricardo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderful opportunity to blame the Mother-in law…[/quote]My wife and I both had a good laugh at that.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ric, you are losing the point – this is a wonderf...
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tuga wrote:I was offered for birthday by my dear mother in law the choice between Cohen live or a Tosca open air performance.It took me some time to decide because this would have been my only chance to listen to Cohen...
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Curiously I first heard about George Walker and his music very recently, when by joining in on the celebration of Obama's election, the Portuguese National Broadcasting's Classical Channel dedicated a few days to American music, from Aaron Coplan...
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I was offered for birthday by my dear mother in law the choice between Cohen live or a Tosca open air performance.It took me some time to decide because this would have been my only chance to listen to Cohen but in the end I felt it would be wiser to...
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[quote user="Telstar"] scooter wrote:* 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 audioph...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported...
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Hi jd*,Have you tried this music player that uses iTunes for "asset acquisition, storage and playlist management"?http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/index.htmlI've read good things about it.The UI is uglier than a old goat, though...Cheers,Tuga...
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