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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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I hate to provide what the audio people call “equipment recommendations”. Whoever has sent me private emails asking me about buying or trying one of another audio component know that I usually suggest do not bother me or propose to them going to hell...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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In terms of the length of the horn, I'm allowing myself a total height of 7'6" (just below the average ceiling height of 8'). In regards to the mouth diameter, that's another matter. (It appears that I will have to build two [2] different...
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[Quote]Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a good pizza. Unfortunately I won't find one in a Pizzahut. "That" man's 2 for 1 pleasure says a lot about his evaluating capabilities... I also enjoy several different kinds of music, mostly acoustic, but en...
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[This is a repost from Audio Asylum -- Music Lane]
Not to mince words, I have five. And this from a guy who usually disdains such collections. But there are exceptions.
-- Schnabel. (Of course) But he can be overly fierce.
-- Claude Fran...
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The history of stereophonic sound
1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...
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A Seminar presented by Greg Burnett at Audio Fest 2004, Colorado Audio Society
by John HaralsonOctober 9, 2004
Why are audiophiles interested in FM radio? Because the quality of FM audio was satisfying until stations began to compete with each othe...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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Pandora's Magic BoxRestoration of the music's dynamic range in historical recordings by: Pierre A. Paquin
We are now able to enjoy great recording of the distant past, thanks to the efforts of several successful and dedicated engineers who have had...
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I have lived with the Koetsu Onyx Platinum also and I agree. I did not really enjoy it very much in my system no matter what I did. However, honestly, when I first heard Koetsu many years ago (it was a Rosewood Pro IV), I was really drawn...
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Steinway Lyngdorf loudspeaker company has a new model that they call of cause the System D.
http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/Model_D-45.aspx
http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/files/billeder/Steinway/Papers/Model-D.jpg
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National Philharmonic of Russia in Escondido by George Weinberg-Harter
Once I heard a radio interview with the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who had left what was then the Soviet Union to become conductor of our own National Symphony...
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Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould By EDWARD ROTHSTEINMarch 12, 2007
Was that relief I felt as the piano was playing? A feeling that some worry had been alleviated or a fear quieted? Why then was it also mixed with disappointment, as i...
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2005
Baltimore Symphony appoints AlsopFOSTER KLUGAssociated Press
BALTIMORE - Marin Alsop was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony on Tuesday, overcoming vigorous dissent by ...
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I'm a new reader of your website and one subject which interests me a lot is that of upper bass horns.As you have noted time and again (with which I agree almost completely, after reading a lot of 'research' [many claiming to defy the laws of physics...
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Here is a VERY interesting paper http://www.anstendig.org/Stereo.htmlSTEREO: A MISUNDERSTANDINGTHE THEORY, SOUND-SYSTEMS, AND PROBLEMS OF HEARINGThere is a common misconception that the addition of stereophonic sound-reproduction was the necessary, c...
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There was a good article about this very subject in 2004. You have to pay to use the NYT's archives, but one of Michael Green's disciples quoted it on their website, and they didn't get sued for copyright, so I guess it is OK to post it here:
If ...
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State-of-the-art Orchestra: 32 Loudspeakers
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David Dominique
“Ahem. Is this on? [two taps on the microphone]”
Thus began Mark Applebaum’s Pre-Composition, the concert openeron Friday, December 10th for H...
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rowuk wrote:
I laugh my ass off. I would love to play two different trumpets for these special p...
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Golovanov Musical Portraitby Olga Fyodorova
…In 1948 the Bolshoi Opera was rehearsing Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Nikolai Golovanov steering the orchestra through the difficult score of this operatic evergreen…
“Louder! Lou...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] I feel I am being objective when I say that a Mirrophonic system simply blows away Altec, Vitavox, TAD, etc. [/quote]
Joe, I am not a reader of your magazine and the phrase like “blows away” impress me very little. P...
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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="rowuk"]I guess there are many types that come here to GoodSoundClub. Some to "brag", some to "share", some to "police", some just to learn.
I guess if your turntable is so important to you, then you could at least tell us ho...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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The problems with Smart Grids
by B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase...
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