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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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It is not about low voltage buttery power, tube version with 200 pounds power supply, CRL filtration, no-transformer gain or air capacitors. The topology that we might or might not admit to comply with the concept of “acceptable phonostage” is co...
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I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio. If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...
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I am in minor scale mode toady and play mostly chamber music and only records. FM broadcasts with all their majesty are hardly objective tool to assess what doing on with audio. So, I play records and tapes. Besides everything I am trying to figu...
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I am sorry that it took me so long to respond to yours and many other questions here but unlike most of the people who have the time to post here because they are unemployed, I have a DAY JOB and have to WORK for a living. This is not a value judgmen...
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"Highlights include complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle, Strauss's Four Last Songs with Renée Fleming, Mendelsshohn's "Elihah," Mahler's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, and Premieres by Carter, Harbison, Lieverson and John Williams.
BSO Music Director ...
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Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...
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For whatever reason people expressed a lot of interest to Pacific vs. Lavry A/D and I recently got an relatively a large number of emails, including from the people I do not even know, asking me to compare identical analog tracjs and post the foundin...
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We would not use Mahler’s orchestra to play Haydn’s symptoms and we would not use Palestrina’s orchestra to play Brahms. It is not even the deferent time period but rather a different set of expressive tools the symphonic and chamber orchestras u...
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It was yesterday around 4 PM – I viciously took it off and decided never use it again. I was listening Brahms German Requiem with James Levine and BSO – a phenomenal performances in my view and one moment after being offended by each note the F...
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I truly love that. Sometimes in the randomness of internet audio idiocy there are events where I become sort of epicenter of bashing. I say “sort of” as they do not discuss my personally or what I stay for but instead the intent Morons mostly sh...
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[quote user="mats"] As I write this, WFMT is playing The Planets, Sir Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Phil, and it is rather amazing.Complex passages resolved as I would expect were I using my Goldmund transport.I prefer the digital out, 24/48 ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Two hours after the end of the glorious Götterdämmerung from MET, I was sitting at the D row, center sit of Jordan Hall right in front of conducting podium of Boston Philiharmonic and Natalia Gutman. What can I say? I ...
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OK! - I will listen to the Barbi/Brahms 4 some more![quote user="Romy the Cat"]
JANDL100 wrote:
By the way - have you had a chance to listen yet to the Shostakovich Piano Quintet played by the Trio di Torino that I sent.&nbs...
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People who know me know that if I person does audio then it does not automatically imply that he is my best friend. I generally do not bring “just audio people” in my home and if I do then they are selected people who I feel might have a potentia...
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Just listened to Gould’s unusual Brahms Intermezzi (See Music Board) via
the Loudspeakers for the first time. The speakers were powered by the MA-9S2s. Of
course I’ve noticed before how Gould deconstructs these pieces. Today I took
advantage o...
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I have mention Daniel in the Julia Fischer’s thread and posted a clip with him playing the Brahms Double Concerto
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=10119
Today I woke up, turned on my Schwartz and heard a ve...
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Japanese are very strange people and fortunately sometimes this strangeness manifest itself in very cool way. For years I fish in Japan for some interesting recordings. Sometimes the Japanese folks release something that is not available anywhere els...
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For Starters of Classical Music.By David King (Amphissa)
SuggestionPick up a copy of a good introductory overview book, like Goulding's Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works which discusses many (not all) of the...
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"When I moved my system
and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also
listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas,
Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was tu...
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Via Mengelberg’s performance of Ein deutsches Requiem, Philips CD
Perhaps it’s possible for someone to “get” Brahms’ Ein deutsches
Requiem by way of a table radio. Speaking for myself, I only got hints that way,
and it wasn’t until I took speci...
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I reread my posts at
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=11547
and
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=3981
and
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostI...
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Today it was a phenomenal broadcast from Tanglewood! Kurt Masur led the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with all Brahms program: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Garrick Ohlsson and the Symphony No. 2. To insult the injury the WGBH precluded the live ...
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Last week I spent a few hours at the scene of NY’s Stereophile Show – HE 2004: a half-day on Thursday and 2 hours on Friday. As many other audio-shows it had many semi-ugly colorations, however as any audio shows this zoo trip brought it’s own “inter...
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Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on
Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no
entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this
was no help either.. (its only now...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Oh, good, why did not you tall it before. How the hell can
you listen if it you DAC outputs 1V?! No wonder you have no volume. Also if you
have no voluble you do not “get” one of the most advanced feature of multi-amp ...
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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT)
http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...
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I am not following the products as I use to do in past, do not buy anything in audio and do not look forward to. Sometimes I look on-line what is our on in audio industry and what is more and more amazes me the level of obnoxiousness , impunity a...
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They offer 24/88 downloadable and thanks God they do not record the Audiophile Blues or the similar crap. This is a good part. The bad part is that they record at 4X and then outsource the file to vireos industry cretins to “master” them, pushing...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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Here is a very interesting double LP set from the old DDR, "Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Musik in der Wedeler Kirche". Other information on the gatefold jacket includes: Heidrun Heinke, Sopran; Gustav Hehring, Bass; Kantorei Kamm...
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