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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where is the real Russian music lives? by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where is the real Russian music lives? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="amperidian"] To me Russian music is not about joy and musicality (unless you specifically consider Tchaikovsky), but instead it tends to portray the bleak and tragic history of that nation and the iron will that was forged through it.&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Where is the real Russian music lives? by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
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[quote user="amperidian"] To me Russian music is not about joy and musicality (unless you specifically consider Tchaikovsky), but instead it tends to portray the bleak and tragic history of that nation and the iron will that was forged through it.&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Historic Russian Archives - Rostropovich Edition by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80 in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
I think there were few homes that “do music” and who did not play today Mstislav Rostropovich. I do not know why but I got today distressing with news about Rostropovich death much more then I would expect from a death of a person that I did not know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2005-10-02 
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A few months John Hasquin sent me a picture of someone’s horns suggesting … actually he did not suggested anything but after I saw the picture I was laughing hard and quite long.  I found that those horns were very symptomatic to the most horns ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The better Russian tubes and 120W SET - might be fan. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More power from Melquiades? More powerful tube? in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Nope, the Russian tubes generally much, in fact much worse than western equivalents. There were however some exceptions. Those options were due to various reasons. The tubes like GM70, YO186, 1P24B, 6E5P, 6N30P, BO188, GM57, UB180, 6C33C, 6N6P, M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Russian piano music by steverino on 2015-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The "mystery" of Shostakovich in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
I love Russian orchestral music but have never been a fan of Russian solo piano music. Even their chamber music I find meh with only a few exceptions. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The Russian Premiere. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.5 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
Denis Matsuev plays the Russian Premiere of Rachmaninoff-Warenberg's Fifth Piano Concerto with National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Spivakov....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs Rachmanin... by skushino on 2006-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs... in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
I just returned home from an evening of Russian music in Seattle - Pletnev and RNO performing Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.  The program began with Rachmaninoff Vocalise, then Piano Concerto #3 (Alexander Mogilevsky on piano) and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mysterious Russian Trombones by Paul S on 2008-07-20 
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Since I can't read Cyrillic/Russian, I may never know anything significant about these wonderful piano/trombone duets. I am guessing from dates on the label that the compositions are from the early 1800s through the 1930s.The album jac...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: New Russian Tube! by drdna on 2009-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More power from Melquiades? More powerful tube? in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]There was a cool Russian-made tube GU-48...  I do not think that it would be worse; in fact I think it might be even better… [/quote]Wait, Romy, you think a RUSSIAN product might be better?  That is a surprise!:)Seriously t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Russian 6e5p - 6C33C by decoud on 2019-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More 6E5P-6C33C amps. in Melquiades Amplifier  22 Replies 
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt61U17AxWC/ No special bias sauce, it seems. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian cello festival by Romy the Cat on 2014-12-01 
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Russian festival of 3 century of cello. Very nice Bach the second son, Lalo, Vivaldi and Shnitke under  Dmitry Jurowski. Skip first 7 minutes....   http://meloman.ru/concert/tri-veka-violonchelikoncert-zakrytie-vi-mezhdunarodnogobrviolonc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: An interesting Russian pnonocorrector. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An interesting Russian pnonocorrector. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
Guys from a Russian audio site come up with an idea of MM corrector that I find very interesting, take a look – it is self-explanatory. The firs tube is Russian equivalent of 7788. The second is “my” 6E5P, though I would use 7721 – sounds better in o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian Orthodox liturgy: Pavel Chesnokov by Romy the Cat on 2004-10-16 
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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Sometimes it is fun to be a Russian-born by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Yevgeny Mravinsky Film in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="yoshi"]Unfortunately, we also have the lists of "Audiophile recommended CDs" on every audio related publications in Japan.  I refer to them as something I should avoid.[/quote]Avoid? Not necessarily. Yoshi, It is not about the fact ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The maker of the “Russian Ark” does “Boris Godunov”! by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Opera “Boris Godunov” in Musical Discussions  8 Replies 
A film director Alexander Sokurov, the Andrei Tarkovsky’s pupil, will direct the Bolshoi's new production of "Boris Godunov. In April 27".  I hope it will be proporly filmed and made available. By Raymond StultsPublished: April 20, 2007 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers by dazzdax on 2005-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Russian mythology and Horn loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
Yes, the similarity between the horn system and the Baba-Jaga hut on fowl's legs is uncanny. The system might be only loosely based on text book principles, but did you notice the use of cotton isolated wire connecting the speaker syst...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Russian duo-pianists Vitya Vronsky and Victor Babin play Liebeslieder ... by Reggie on 2009-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits. in Analog Playback  24 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]I will still buy clean Seraphims with good program material if I do not have the original.  If I do have the original, I pass on the Seraphim, even as a "back-up", UNLESS it is a record I have loved so much that I am killing it.M...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #125: Russian engineering ??? by Wojtek on 2021-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
For God's sake it's an old Tannoy red with standard vintage Tannoy crossover muddied by scan speak pseudo passive radiator in accidental enclosure driven by a run of a mill Yamaha amp. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: A Russian Horns Maker. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Who builds horns? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  84 Replies 
There is a Russian guy Dmitry Gubchenco who claims the he makes custom installations using horn-loading topology: http://www.audio-tube.ru/ I am not thrilled with what I see but it was not made for me. Anyhow, it looks like the gu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: I think "the Russian" is simply trying to control diffractio... by rickmcinnis on 2011-06-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EnABL: Just a note to awaken all of you peaceful sleepers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
I have used thick wool felt around the perimeter of my round horns at times.  Having owned a pair of ROGERS LS3/5a's in my youth and being amazed at the huge sound those little speakers could effect one tries to re-use ideas.  Diffraction control is ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Russian idioms and Goto patients by Romy the Cat on 2011-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
The funny and poor Tuyen. It looks like another audio guy, as Russians says, “went over the hands”. The “went over the hands” is a very interesting Russian idiom that use very frequently apply to audio people. Years back it was once very deservin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #128: The Russian take on the “Resonance Oops” by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
There is a speaker maker in Russia, Moscow – Alexander Kniysev who just introduced his own take on “Resonance Oops”. What he does is not my cap of tea and I see a number of issues with his design that I would object but it is not my speaker. Neverthe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: A completely new Russian drinking song The drunk Electro-Voice. by Bud on 2005-07-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
Only with the finest of Russ drinking vodkas, then off to Jose Quervo Five Gold Coinand something really salty... then we can sing to the domes and they will clean themselves, without our having to have a Memorex moment and scouring them with our ton...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Russian variant amplifier by Aura on 2010-09-19 
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HiRussian variant of the amplifier:http://datagor.ru/blogs/lantug/957-rr-6s33s.html...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: “Russian orchestra has high points and low“ by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: An evening to remember - Russian National Orchestra performs... in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
Scott, I do not see which Vocalise it is. The LYS have managed to published a huge amount of Koussevitzky recordings before their ass got kicked and I think thsy have 3 versions Koussevitzky’s Vocalisess… Get any of them, it will do... This ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: A Russian implementation of JBL-2490 by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: JBL 2490 mid-range driver in Horn-Loaded Speakers  10 Replies 
I saw today link of a Russian guy who was trying to make set a playback around JBL-2490. http://photofile.ru/users/yras/3860502/all/?mode=xlarge The speaker turn out to be a ridicules – 2490 in upperbass shorted version of WE horn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: All roads lead to the convoluted Scriabin by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where is the real Russian music lives? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
[quote user="op.9"]Pure Russian music? You have missed out the great master Tanayev! Almost alone, he manages to combine that true Russian sound with our counterproductive western accountantcy.[/quote] Actually it was not Tanayev but Taneyev. Despise...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: The deficiency of Performing Colors… by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
[quote user="Amphissa"]I do not know how well he knew the music of Mahler. Certainly they have some ideas in common, but Myaskovsky was never as ostentatious as Mahler. Of course, he was a much more versatile composer than Mahler. Mahler had a few id...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Boris Godunov 1948: the singers by Romy the Cat on 2006-05-12 
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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