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When I am alone and listen music or if I listed music with those very-very few who do not need my explanation what they are hearing then I very seldom do something else. Smoking cigars does not count.
One of the activities that I do enjoy some...
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It is imposable entering the holiday season to walk across Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and do not be “abused” by sound of Nutcracker coming from each open window. I just returned from my 15 minuets walk across Beacon Hill to my favorite Antonio...
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After my recent vinyl re-inspiration I did today something that I did not do for over two year – I went for vinyl shopping. It is not that I was walking by my local vinyl shops and stopped by for a glance or two -I do it occasionally – but rather...
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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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I have to admit that I unhealthy love Tchaikovsky Fifth symphony and I “collect” it for years from all imaginable sources.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1597
I stopped by today at my local used CD store and in a bargain section...
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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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A few years ago I did not “get” Bruckner. Then, like with everything else, it changed. And of course being a compulsive feline, I can not get enough of what I like….
I admit that I listen quite a lot of Bruckner lately. There is something very medit...
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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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[quote
user="steverino"]Why are you trying to get sub 20Hz in your room in
order to play Bruckner's symphonies or anyone else's? The orchestral bass goes
down to the mid 30s Hz limit nearly an octave above 20Hz. The only exception
would be large ...
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I need to add to what I said above that there is some exceptions
if music is chosen to be played VERY slow.
I personally very much love any slower than usually interpretations. Unfortunately
not a lot of them nowadays, not a lot of conductors hav...
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You are right about not compensating for recordings. Seems we've had this discussion before. So many variables.
Sealed box, horns, crossover slopes, and points, drivers and their various qualities,
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It is sad that no one talks about it and it is very not clear what is going on. It looks like the companies that sell hi-res files feel that the phrase hi-res is automatically an assurance of some kind of “quietly”. Well, they most likely deal w...
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It is not US’s Fox News and not Stereophile and there is no need to pull the fractions of "stupid" soundbytes to prove any agendas. Anyone whoever are frequent this site know in context of what the said was said. Most important that I know what ...
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I will be waiting for the February 24 with my tail trammeling…[/quote]Well, I went last Saturday to see the long-expected MET Broadcast. It was generally positive experience but it had own “apocalyptical” tones… “I do not ...
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Something had changed very positively with multi-amping. I am not quite sure if it is because the full multi-amping of the specific of the implementation but it is what it is. The entire dynamic relationship between volume of a given tone and the ton...
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Hi Chirag, all
[quote user="Chirag"]Hello Jan, The sequelae of this topic is strangling![/quote]
[quote] My musical preferences, as anyones should/do, have been changing over the past few years;
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I was listening a few days ago the first crescendo of the
Bruckner 9 by Vienna and Giuliani. I was listening probably 20 times in row and
was always feeling that I was missing something. The Bruckner crescendo are different
then most of the cresce...
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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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Amy last night delivered the most brutal insult of my playback
I have heard for years. Usually I very much like when stupid internet audio
with audio IQ leas size of own shoe to “criticize” my playback. This is real
fun to hear them and it is a re...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I bought a few Linn Records own recordings of Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dunedin Consort. They pushed them as “Studio Master” but they are WMA files – means the re-rendered compress...
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Yesterday I finalized everything, made the crossovers permanent,
arranged the cables, check the phases and levels per each channel and officially
declared to my wide that the listening room setting up is over. Then as the kids
went to bed I decide...
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[quote user="anthony"]To mirror your
obsession, but not as the instigator of the project, rather as the duplicator,
it has been my plan for some time to take off all of January to get my
Melquiades/Macondo installed in my room. Being self-employe...
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It has been a difficult time last 2 months in my family. We went
over job change and we fired a live-in nanny that made some logical thine with
kids difficult. The new nanny we found had to quit in 2 weeks due to her
medical condition, so it was a...
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Romy, I will attempt to fill you in on some backstory.
My Placette was purchased from a guy in France. My dac is made in the Netherlands. To an Australian that is just like next door. I have a good and strong rel...
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[quote user="Romy the
Cat"] If I defeat the hardness by dropping of the output impedance then I
would understand what is going on but I minimize the hardness by raising the
output impedance!!! This is very interesting and I need to think about it ...
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I got three amassing audio feelings lately.
This November was certainly the month to remember. Hospitalizing with Kitty in November 7, giving birth to baby and then staying in hospital with them to the beginning of...
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[quote user="rowuk"]In the case of brass players -
including Mr. Schlueter, I would maintain that many simply have no interest in
historic context for Mahler or Bruckner - or older music. Case and point: a
Giovanni Gabrieli recording by the Met br...
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This topic it is of upmost importance to me in this stage of personal development, if I understood you. After my obsession with timbre, when I finally got a bit of satisfaction with violins, after horns, I failed with tempo. Or with inner t...
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