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I wonder if you're doing your listening with the Bidat using its volume pot or you're using only vinyl with your phono correctors or maybe the ET-T-834 EAR using its volume pot. Maybe the Melquiades has its own attenuators. I'll be glad to know how y...
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I think I understant pretty well your descriptions and it's surprising the amp can overcome speakers flaws. Is this using the Lamm L2 or any other preamp, or just driving the Melquiades with the source directly? I wonder if that what you describe cou...
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This is very interesting. I hope that new "sound" makes for a better music understanding for you ;-) I'll have to start saving to buy me a ticket to Boston and pay you a visit ha ha ha ha....
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I feel a kind of "healthy envy" for the way you have been able to get the sound you were looking for, and I mean sound in the sense of conveying more clearly the purpose and content-load of the music. I can't help thinking that after all, everything ...
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I'm not very fond of contemporary composers, but I thought it might be an exception.... It's not, so thanks for saving me a few bucks.Regards,Antonio...
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Romy, I've seen you're playing today that concert. How is it? Interesting and worth the expense? I never listened something composed by David so your true music lover opinion will be appreciated.Regards,Antonio...
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and I suspect they make music quite well too.Could you comment in what things do you find them better than the Lamms and in what things they might be worse? Just curiosity, I'll never have any of both, ha ha ha ha.Regards,Antonio...
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I understand. I wish I could go to the States anytime soon, but I'm afraid I need more holidays. In any case maybe you could, from time to time, comment us about some of them, whenever you listen to them or whatever. Some Beethoven, Mendhelsson, Brah...
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I share your happiness, although I only have the CD I can understand you, that 4th is wonderful.Would you share with us what other recordings belong to that especial shelf? I'd love listening to them if they're as good as the Brahms'... or maybe bett...
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Hi Romy,Perhaps what you've been experiencing listening as a designer, is not so different to the way many people involved in this hobby experience while listening to their systems after doing some changes in wires, electronics or speakers' positioni...
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Hi Romy,I agree with you, when an amplifier is fast and capable to response quickly to abrupt dynamic challenges, then the harmonic structure of the notes becomes sharpened, it loses richness and "texture" because they fade away too quickly and their...
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them. I've always found Tchaikovsky kind of "soft-popular-easy-listening" music, but I was very wrong, it's just I didn't find good performances. The 6th is a great symphony despite that "ballet-like" third move...
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Hi Romy,In my copy the recording info is correct, it states it was recorded in 1967 at the Marinsaal.... (whatever) and remastered later, from an EMI recording.And going to the important. Yes, this is wonderful music, I never listened to that Brahms'...
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I think I've got some conclussions from these late posts.- Audio is something with defined rules by physics, engineering, and lately, marketing.- Audio, as high end industry and most audiophiles see it, has little to do with a satisfying music l...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, not really.
I have been pitching for the years a concept that the answers in audio are NOT located in audio and that the entire audio actually starts form a library (it it’s metaphorical definition). I had been...
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Thanks for your time Romy. I get the point, that's the kind of "sound" I'd like to reach, the sound that allows to grab those meanings, intentions, senses, or whatever that "loads" a certain performance. The "problem" is that if you haven't ever list...
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Of course when exposed to "good musical" systems I can feel things work for me, but what I was really trying to lead up to is the rationalization of those feelings. The kind of ability to say "hey Antonio, this is working fine because this SET amp ha...
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Hi Romy,Sorry for having placed you quote out of context and giving the wrong impression that I didn't care for what came afterwards. I did, but I didn't want to make a long quotation.This issue, as I understand it, comprises several topics in which ...
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Wow!!
"*** Do you really know how to get your system where you want it to be? Are you really that experienced?
Not really. My more typical situation is a state when I know exactly what is wrong; I know how it should be; I perfectly correct can ide...
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I've received and read most of February issue of Stereophile. They review the last M1.2 Reference amplifier and the comments from the reviewer are more about how the music can flow and show as a unique event, with the kind of interaction with th...
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Thanks Steve for your insightful answer. I feel mixed feelings with classical music. I have some composers that can grab my attention whatever version of their music I listen to, but are very few, probably just Bach, Beethoven and Mendelsso...
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[quote user="AOK_Farmer"]Perhaps a good place to start is with music that demands more from the listener than the listener demands from it. As if the music is searching you for an explanation rather than you searching the music for one. If the m...
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I wonder how did you realize that you were clueless and started to ask more from your system and why. Many people who start into this hobby because they're mainly music lovers and not gear freaks, don't use to get into audiophilia and never mind abou...
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I had already ordered it before you posted your reply, luckily the reference number matched and I was quite sure it was it. Couldn't find the recording company website. It's a second hand item, decent price. I'll comment about it when it arrives, hop...
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but I get the point. The remaining question is then, how can one tweak, modulate, control, or shape the response of the system or the speakers to really become more accurate to the original "meaningful music"? For my own experience I know w...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I very much insist on the fact that I do not retrieve my position on this mater. The relationship between a ‘content loaded music’ and capacity of a 'serious playback' is the only mater that counts and this is the threshold...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"].....There is a danger, when talking in elaborate language about audio equipment, that the sound quality of the software, a component or a system might be perceived as being somehow beyond or better than that...
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I agree that when you find trully "musical" gear, then it's harder to
explain why it is, and topical "sound descriptions" become not useful
to describe their performance. That's what I feel about the Bidat or
the EAR phono preamp. But, in spite of...
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Well, this is a very interesting matter. It looks like after all we cannot speak about how reproduced music should sound without going back into the "audiophile jargon". I suppose it's a so personal matter that it cannot be explained, and also depend...
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