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With the electricity being so bad my listening has been limited, and what I've been hearing has shifted my focus somewhat, which is annoying, to be sure, but it is also educational. I have been playing around with plate loading a little and not...
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Wow, what an intresting post, in its own right!But then I wonder, what about the Music?Count me in as a total slut that enjoys any "realistic" element of Sound I can gather as a significant part of a Musical performance.At the same time, count me as ...
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Well, that is a small room, all right. Regardless, a "mid-bass deficiency" alone could literally evicerate big works. I have written up the Kubelik/BPO/Dvorak 9, because I think so highly of that performance. It should absoutely be loaded to the g...
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I did mean the recent recordings but rather the personal “recording of the week”, the personal recent discoveries. BTW, I never heard the Pergolesi Stabat Mater before. I will look the Alessandrini’s one….
Here is one wonderful recent discover...
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Well, bringing up the rear guard, I finally got a copy of the Music and Arts CD transfer of the 1942 concert, and what a performance!!! It might take re-reading for me to sync the liner notes/review with what I heard, which did not need a ...
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This post was prompted by listening to Chopin's Piano Concerto in E Minor, Opus 11, Everest Archive X-923 (stereo, 1965). This whole series of recordings was very carefully made of remarkable Duo-Art reproductions played on the incredible 1929 ...
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Funny, I was just having more or less the same conversation earlier today, only in my case it was the straight-descent-to-Hell of Jazz and Classical programming in Southern California.Is there any way to understand these problems?Sure, ther...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
That is why what I refer to “transport” I refer to the very primary duty – to read an optical disk and the ability to create more advanced sound out of it. As a persons who am familiar with the best optical disk rea...
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I haven't listened to the TU-X1, but I can swear that my TU-919 is a better source than my Bidat or my vinyl rig in terms of creating an atmosphere of music. Here we only have two decent stations, one for classical which from time to time broadc...
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Stitch, I am not too familiar with the sound of contemporary TT and I am not necessary would discard them juts because they are contemporary. I still have that fantasy about some kind of flimsy, paper-made TT that for whatever reason do sound very go...
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1- Romy, a $200 microscope was shit 30 years ago when I bought mine and is still a piece of shit today. Manufacturing 5-10 SX-8000 type tables a year is inexpensive, its when you go to 50-100 units a year, AF1 market, that cost of operations escalate...
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Well, I hope that Romy is the only one who still thinks I'm tube rolling, because this post is even farther afield (although it is almost a spin off from the previous posts about AC/grounding).I finally got around to adding not-terrible po...
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"Vitriolic" is certainly the wrong word to apply to my "attitude"/post(s), Dominic. "Amused" is more like it. I am amused by claims that ANY 4" driver makes a stand-alone "Full-Range" speaker able to "presen...
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I think the third movement was the best. Mehta really took his time there and dropped the overly fast tempo of the whole work. Some moment were truly nice during that adagio. I did not hate the performance in the way how I hated some other Bruckne...
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I had my best-to-date listening sessions this year, but still 2008 has been a mixed bag for me. I did get pretty much what I was aiming for, or rather I did on those occasions when the electricity happened to be decent....
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Jessie, you can imagine that the output tube was hot at 59 watts. FWIW, I never go a month without checking OP, usually within 2 weeks, and in this case I had checked it less than a week before.The tube itself is the heat source, much hotter th...
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[quote user="drdna"]I find the sound of my horn loudspeakers very satisfying, and by the way I have the EdgarHorn Titans, which may make you chuckle if you are a horn snob, but I think they do a very good job, one of the best commercially available h...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Again, I am NOT a collector - at all. I am only in it for the music[/quote]I am not a collector too. I collect some very specific drivers only to take some good parts out of them which are not available anywhere else. I do not c...
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Jamikl I think I am not the best person to ask. My limited exposure to ports went successful, even though I admit that I did not invest any efforts of knowledge to be successful with ports. I hated them before and my failure with my trying to use po...
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Hi Romy and JJTriode:
I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The last nigh I tuned the playback and witnessed one of the best sound I had......The leading idea is that something environmentally got changed that affect out perception and make brain to get positive sensation from sound...
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Yes, there are some specific differences between how various manufacturers burned in their tubes and the initial firing of the tube and flashing the getter, etc. There is an interesting video of the old Blackburn Mullard plant here:http://www.techtub...
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Is this another case where one must actually hear and be familiar with the product to comment?Zipping through some of the text, this guy sounds like the typical zealot with a good idea that has swollen up to eclipse his thinking in related areas...
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A reader of my site sent me interesting information. It looks like Accuphase came up with a new model: T1100.
http://www.accuphase.com/cat/t-1100_e.pdf
In this new model more functionality went to DSP, but the most important the ...
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As many manufactures I know who is close enough with me to talk with me honesty, all of them agreed that they produce quite mediocre audio products. Do not take me wrong, all of them claimed that their creations are better then competitor, that their...
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Didn't you first become aware of MF "problems" when you got everything else working better via the PP2000, and the MF wound up dropping back to weak sister status with respect to system-wide PP2000 benefits?But how often is a "serious" (and ever-evol...
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Thanks for the rejoinder, including the corrections and tips, Romy.I well remember Lamm saying that we should junk our ML2s now because the parts are "worn out". While that does not cause me to think he does not know what he is doing it natural...
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Romy says:[quote]The problem is that in context of those amplifiers the COST BECOMES THE MAJOR DESIGN IMPEDIMENT[/quote]Yes, but it shouldn't -- should it?Let's be reasonable (a tall order). Either a designer knows how to design or not. If he doesn;t...
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[quote user="Winnie"]Firstly let me say that I believe musicians could be just about the most important people to judge the quality of Hi Fi. They know how the music sounds during creation so can best judge if that quality has been preserved (less de...
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If the HT opera idea involves "immersion", then what is it that facilitates this immersion? I think image quality can be exploited with HT, just like any other quality. As for "Fantasia", it is a great example of a film that simply exceeded everyon...
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