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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Thanks for the info by Antonio J. on 2005-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EMI rollercoaster across 20 century. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
You're right, one doesn't want more excerpts, but having the whole performance, maybe they selected the best fragments, but I believe that it's the whole work what gives the real deal.I've checked the link, in those discs there are very interest...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Finally found it by Antonio J. on 2005-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: "Appeal to the Great Spirit" in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
Almost one year passed since I first saw these pictures and quite frequently I've been thinking about the question. Some pieces were quite close, but not entirely like that. Some Bach... even Wagner, but not really. Finally today I've listened t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Breathtaking! by Antonio J. on 2005-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EMI rollercoaster across 20 century. in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
It's a pity that the pieces are just fragments, I wish they were the whole performances. Some of them are just unbelieveable. I wonder how modern engineers could forget that things made simple and easy sound more like music. These mp3 convey more emo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Regarding the set by Antonio J. on 2005-06-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A phenomenal find: Garvilov-Prokoviev in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Did you score the full 200 CD collection: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00002EITP.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpgor just the Gavrilov 2 CD set?I've been wondering if the whole set is worth the price. Individual sets are very difficult to find, I tried to g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: I knew it by Antonio J. on 2005-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
Hi Romy,I've never listened to a Shelter, but for what I know about it from your comments (none but I believe I've got an idea about its way to make music regarding you goals) I thought it was it.Sure, listening to those performances in your system w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: No misunderstanding on this side by Antonio J. on 2005-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
Hi Romy,I knew that my asking about the cart used would make you to write the kind of comment you've done.What I've enjoyed most and exclusively of the disc has been the music, all are terrific pieces and some, like the Kodaly, Kalman and S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: CD arrived by Antonio J. on 2005-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
Hi pals,I've come back from work and the CD was into my mailbox. It's in perfect shape. I'll listen to it later as respectfully as it deserves, the selection looks very interesting. By the way, I got the Mahler's second you included ;-) it arriv...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Thanks Romy by Antonio J. on 2005-05-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: GoodSoundClub – one year later. in Site Support Forum  16 Replies 
I know my posts haven't been very helpful and useful for the knowledge tree, but they've been for getting the CD, so I'm very glad and thankful.Rgrds,A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Shelter 90X: mystery resolved? by Antonio J. on 2005-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery in Analog Playback  54 Replies 
Did you manage to listen the 90x? Do you think those performance differences have any influence on the music in your system?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: So I assume you've tried by Antonio J. on 2005-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
building a preamp based in the same tube you're using on the Melquiades and results aren't what you expected. Have you?I wish I knew how to do it, I'd love receiving a compilation of your favourite music. Anyway, why do you think you'll get better re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: So the main issue by Antonio J. on 2005-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
would be finding midbass and midrange drivers with a similar character which allowed a good integration between them. Once I knew the drivers I might desing the horn (glubs, not so easy) and ask a skilled professional to build it for me, not impossib...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: OK, I get it by Antonio J. on 2005-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
INTEGRATION that's the clue and that's what I always feel lacks in my room, I mean extreme integration, real integration, the feeling that the recorded bass sound has its own boundaries, not my room's. So you said, midbass horns?OK, let's g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: I wish I had by Antonio J. on 2005-03-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
half the size (in length and width, so actually a quarter the size in extension) of that room for my crappy system. For me that's not an average living room. Those horns would never fit mine, not even the Avantgarde duos would.Regards....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Or maybe by Antonio J. on 2005-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
you've finally rested because you've got it right ;-)Regards....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Samuel Feinberg's Well-Tempered Clavier. by Antonio J. on 2005-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Samuel Feinberg's Well-Tempered Clavier. in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Benedetti playing the WTC? That had been great, really great :-)Rgrds....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: Carlos Kleiber and the 5th. by Antonio J. on 2005-03-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I expected you hadn't an absolute favourite by Antonio J. on 2005-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
but I didn't expect your favourite 5th was Carlos Kleiber's. I don't know it and should.Have you listened to a quite new Toscanini's set which has been sonically restored?http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CNTLU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpgIt's an RCA Red ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: What's your favourite 9th, by Antonio J. on 2005-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
3rd, 5th and 6th?Lately I've been listening to Savall's 3rd it's interesting but I like better the Karajan's.Rgrds....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" by Antonio J. on 2005-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ludwig van Beethoven "9 Symphonien" in Musical Discussions  22 Replies 
The ninth on that set is my favourite rendition, I like it better than the acclaimed Furtwangler's, but I suspect I should listen to many other ones.......

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: I wonder if heaten goats by Antonio J. on 2005-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
give birth to spotted animals, ha ha ha. Maybe I'm too rationalist and I hardly can see how to get a result which you imagine should exist but you don't know. Anyway you did and you're happy, so it might be feasible ;-)Regards....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: I don't know the story by Antonio J. on 2005-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
but I guess where you lead up to....Rgrds,AJ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: How is it that you anticipated the result by Antonio J. on 2005-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
before knowing if it was achievable? As far as the result is concerned, one can work onto a result if knows it is attainable and the effort will yield a profit. I mean that for instance I may want to have full 20Hz-20Khz response in my room...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: If I didn't know you're serious about it by Antonio J. on 2005-03-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
I'd think you're raving your last toy in the same way "audio people" do at other forums ;-)I'm still puzzling my mind about how can the damn thing sound and which are its "sound features" explaining its musical behaviour. Nothing would make me happie...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: LOL by Antonio J. on 2005-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
What a pity, I hoped you had one of those SPD rooms at home ;-)I still think that some things could be explainable, but I guess it would be as explaining a blind person how different is a good photo of a nude woman from having that real woman in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Kind of contradictory by Antonio J. on 2005-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
On one hand we have that "evolved music reproduction" is something that one achieves as an act of inner growth and by having established some goals or intentions which if resolved, can offer a different musical reproduction from the commercial audiop...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Let's suppose .... by Antonio J. on 2005-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I disagree, Antonio. I feel that if that “Stressed Playback Demonstration” be conducted then a listener should not even be aware neither what components-topology were used nor what kind principles were utilized to accompl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Let's suppose .... by Antonio J. on 2005-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: “How audio might sound” in Playback Listening  8 Replies 
That such ideal bussiness is open and I go there to pay a listen to an "out of parameters" system which really enlightens myself about what can be obtained with audio. The questions come later. How can I get the devices to set up a sys...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: It will be funny by Antonio J. on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
***********Yes, WE most defiantly should. However, we are still in process of learning how to get the best of it (for instant something “huge” was learned .... today) When everything will be mentally settled down I do not see any reasons why the info...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: How right you are by Antonio J. on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] *********** From here, read carefuly because it is important *********** The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Preamp Project by Antonio J. on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
Thanks for the comments. I believe that a preamp giving the same kind of benefits of Melquiades and being able to deliver them with any power amp and speakers would be something truly great. I know it won't be the same than the amps, but probably som...
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