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I lately look at the noise created around the Shelter cartridges and I wonder what is going on. Shelter was doing wonderful cartridges, more or less responsibly priced and people use it for years. Bunch of the typical industry scams in past did their...
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Actually it was sad to hear potentially nice horn system wasted on mediocre music (at least that's what I heard at three different times I visited the room so it must have been a norm ) and grey sounding D-amps with "pumping " bass tubas. At least th...
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I suppose I have "learned a lot about drivers" and speakers over the years, but age has overtaken my production capabilities, and I am selling my stash of drivers. Included for sale is the Holy Grail of lower mid-range drivers, a particular variant o...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3
What is important is to undusted that my view less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire cla...
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Ok, let dive a little bit further into my examination of the subject of Lamm ML3
What is important is to undusted that my view less targets the Lamm ML3 but rather it targets the ML3 as a representative of entire class of amplifiers. When I to...
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It was an excellent article in today New York Times:
Remembering Rostropovich, the Master Teacher By MICHAEL WHITEMANCHESTER, England
IT is a truth upheld by many in the music world if not universally acknowledged that pianists are neurotic, violin...
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It is kind of suck for Bruckner lovers in America. The American audience do not listen Bruckner too much so the orchestras understandably do not book Bruckner ‘s symphonies. If some visiting conductors do Bruckner then the US orchestras do not do ...
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Apart from being an excellent performer Polish pianist is known for his obsessive approach to addressing acoustics of different venues . He made news with angry political outbursts criticizing american militarism during some concerts. The interview ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"] Well, Roman and others I think you are going a little to far with this. Don't tell me that you took everything in my PRIVATE email to you serious because I'm going to think that you're living in the conspiracy world. Actually I ...
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Part 4: AudioThere were very- very few interesting products that attacked my attention.
Steven Klein, the Vibraplane guy form NH, who keep buying the audio toys in Japan and selling them to the Americans for quadruple price this time brought an inte...
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Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...
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CD-1124(2) J.S. BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES. BWV 812-817, selected Preludes, BWV 923, 999, 815a, and three Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by David Cates, harpsichord. CD1 49:38; CD2 45:22. DDD UPC #0-17685-112...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The "Catch-22" with Melquiades is not the Melquiades price but the fact that I SPEND NO EFFORTS TO CONVINCE ANYBODY to build it...I made the Milq available and frankly speaking for myself, I feel more gratified that I revea...
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Romy wrote :
"...extend HF and LF response very frequently masks out a poor performance in “simple” 60Hz and 12KHz range..."
Yes, in my esperience this is most dangerous because it can end up sounding sort of good.
In my on-going full range ...
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It said that no one ever lost money investing in the idiocy of American consumers. Which company emblemifies the American audio consumption better then Wilson Audio? The Moore's observation, that for some stupid reasons is being called ”law”, sug...
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Source: http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/10/harmans-managed-studer-or-end-of-swiss.html
The American Gray Cardinal Monster – Harman International, LTD that fucked up any single company that they owned, took over Swiss Studer.
htt...
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I knew that Bruckner will fuck up my mind, but I am grateful for that…
Lately I tuned my attention to organ music, in fact I’m listening a lot of organ music. It might appear that my playback got to the point where it might do a full justice ...
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[quote user="N-set"]Unlike transmission line reflections which are a REAL effects, torsion gravity has beena nice theoretical concept, existing on paper, but not a proven reality, mind you.This is a huge difference and I guess you are one of tho...
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HL Menken was kind of a jerk in some ways, but he also got a lot right, including: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_underestimating_the_intelligence...
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I mean the way how they call their turntable is absolutely irrelevant, they can call it antigravity bearing but it does not mean anything. They do state that the turntable has air-suspended tonearm; which is fine and common for liner arms. They howev...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is incredibly rare that an audio makers can express pure and unadulterated interest in Sound, interest that is wider and then boundary of own product or own field. [/quote]I agree, I met maybe only 1 or 2 who really kne...
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Mr. Witmer seems like a very thoughtful and well-spoken person who is taken with the aesthetics/approach of various Japanese sound Senseis, most of whom are in turn rooted in "historical" American and/or English audio sensibilities. I'm afraid ...
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[quote user="zako"]A stromberg Carlson 1936 unit with a LABRITH horn design,,,Its a full rich sounding radio and a well balanced sound.. No you cant have it,,Go find your own,,,[/quote]Thanks, zako. I would like to have a radio that do FM. In 1936 ...
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[quote user="Stitch"]1. No real world sorrows2. Next toy from the Adult Toy Store3. Satisfaction for the Ego for whatever reasonsIn a way you find all answers in your Article of "Foolishness of analog People" ....The big Seikis were never common ...
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Wellington,It is my understanding that lead was used because it'a anti an anti-seize properties. The bearing fit is very tight and I suppose this helped with the lubricants of the period and is not a problem with modern synthetics.The bearing does no...
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] music. What I remember from the Christmas of my childhood that it was overwhelming Tchaikovsky, Russians played as it was no tomorrow, particularly the Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker’s second act. I remember...
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[quote user="PurePower"]However, it is important to understand that the solution to ground issues will have to be found in the house AC ground wiring, not in the PurePower 2000. The 2000 produces a completely new 230 volt AC sine wave that is absolut...
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OK, folks, today I have started slowly to setup the playback itself. I took the small bass speaker I have and moved it around the room. The room surprisingly bassy, that is good. While I was doing it I was installing my TT, set up phonostage... I de...
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Hi Jorge.Firstly, be very careful if you're thinking about feeding a PP with a balanced AC input. It may be different with the North American PP units, but my UK unit did not like being fed by a balanced AC input. My balanced transformers already ten...
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