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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: The GREAT Bruckner 8 by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] I'm glad the discs have arrived OK.  The Nanut Eroica is good - the Bruckner 8 is GREAT.  You must listen to it soon![/quote]Jerry, I was intentionally slow with Nanut’s Bruckner 8. I of course have listened it now a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: I'm omnivorous... am I ill, doctor?!? by twogoodears on 2008-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I'm omnivorous... am I ill, doctor?!? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I'm learning a lot on this Forum: lotta quoting and tips about the Great Masters - Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and the Great Conductors Legacy: Toscanini, Walter, Furtwangler, Barbirolli, Boult...... the musical topics - alw...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A Charlie Schlueter syndrome? by Romy the Cat on 2014-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Too damn loud? in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
I know, I know, rowuk. I was teasing you with your trumpetness, trust me it was playful. The reality is that I do not feel that it all about Strawinskys trumpet vs. Bruckner trumpet or about Antol Dorati's trumpets vs. Guntar Wand trumpets. With t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Definitions by steverino on 2024-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... and some Bruckner buzz in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Romy,  When you say no good sounding Bruckner LPs do you mean no "great" sounding, or that all Bruckner LPs sonics are average or worse? It would help if you gave an example of late 19th C Romantic music on LP that you did con...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: What can we draw from this? by Paul S on 2007-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Some time ago Romy threw me a fish in the form of two numbers, 280 and 185, meaning mV and V, respectivly, and I finally got around to chowing down.  I was getting annoyed with the sound this morning to the extent that I busted ou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Why I do not love Mahler? by cv on 2004-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I do not love Mahler? in Musical Discussions  15 Replies 
I'm way out of my depth here, I think I know what you mean Romy; my own feeling about Mahler is that just when he's developing what could be the most haunting melody or lyrical phrase he gets bored with it and goes off on a tangent. Not always, of co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Audio envy. by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Opera Room in Audio Discussions  77 Replies 
Stopped by at local audio friend this Sunday and watch some Brunner, Mahler and Wagner at his HT playback. He has integrated playback installation and video is played at his main system. I am not a fan of good quality of  video playback and feel that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: ... the Andean folk tunes... by Romy the Cat on 2009-12-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Any South/Latin American around here? in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I see thanks. I do not know how who Simon & Garfunkel are but a search indicates that it is by Daniel Alomía Robles written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_C%C3%B3ndor_Pasa_(song)Very cool melod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Jerry's Anton Nanut CDs by JANDL100 on 2007-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
Here's a list of my current holding of Anton Nanut CDs ....___Beethoven symphonies 1 to 8Beethoven overtures: Leonora III, Coriolan, Fidelio, King Stephen, Ruins of AthensBeethoven Mass in CBerlioz Harold in Italy & Roman Carnival ov.Brahms piano...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: The Oliver Stone conducting... by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A great conductor - but almost unknown - Anton Nanut in Musical Discussions  52 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] Yes, please - I would very much like copies of Nanut conducting Mahler 7 8 9 & 10 - that would be wonderful!   (I will put together some more, interesting CDRs for you too!). [/quote]Sure, I will be glad to do it...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mahler VI - Barbirolli with Berlin in Musical Discussions  0 Replies 
My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: OK. BSO – the game is up!!! by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
As it was promised BSO released today two new formats: AIFF (stereo) in 88.2kHz/24bit and WMA (stereo) in 88.2kHz/24bit. THAT what I was waiting. The Daphnis et Chloé, the German Requiem, the Mahler 6 are absolutely wonderful. I just bought all 4 rec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #386: The “Amused to Death” efect by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Last night it was a surreal experience, sort of  QSound–type experience. I still do not know here will be the exact location of my listening chair, it is debating with 2 feet, and because of this I did not bother to lock the Macondo’s channels in tim...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Vinyl by the numbers by drdna on 2009-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits. in Analog Playback  24 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]The paranoia has long since set in: I am convinced that career record shoppers have already gotten to and picked over everything any place I am likely to think of to shop.  I very rarely find anything really great.[/quote]Setting...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MTT’s Mahler at 180 ghram or 180 degree? in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
I do not read printed audio publications. The last one I held in hands it was a year ago or more. Today I stop by in my local Burlington Barnes and Noble and since I was there already I took 3 Stereophile and 2 issues of TAS from newsstand, bough...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The HDCD at 88.2/24? More about the BSO files. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
I do not think they encode it with HDCD, I do not think that it is even possible. Most likely there is something in those files in the files that mislead your DAC and force it to throw the HDCD indicator.  Might be I am wrong but I do not think that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #123: That tonight mood music.... by Romy the Cat on 2021-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Remedies the Beauty in Playback Listening  293 Replies 
I used to know guy who fly around the world, tested food from new restaurants and built for them vine lists. I wonder if you visited my room tonight and see how I cut the teeth at the buffalo of my speakers with demolition reciprocated saw I wonder w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: DACT et alia by Gregm on 2006-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage. in Analog Playback  38 Replies 
I am somewhat familiar with the dact: I used it in non controlled manner but familiar environment; it was assembled by someone else who also provided the necessary power supply; it was in two chassis about 15x15x~30 cm each (one for ps), so the equal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
It is difficult to generalize but I will. As much as ribbons with each hertz down sound more and more unpleasant the low power SET amps with each hertz down in bass region more and more and more loosing ground. Ok, I am not taking about the real bass...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: My beloved Contraltos: kill sopranos. by Romy the Cat on 2007-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My beloved Contraltos: kill sopranos. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I have admitted that I have some freakish affection to lover mirage “moments” in sound and the cellos concertos are my “specially” beloved concertos: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2630 The very same goes with voices. The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Conductor Herbert Kegel by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Conductor Herbert Kegel in Musical Discussions  4 Replies 
Another conductor whose recordings I recently discover (Got bless the Japan) one after another and keep astonish myself that Kegel is relatively little know or popular."Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Scotland and Music by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
[quote user="JJ Triode"] You mentioned bagpipes--do you think any bagpipe or other Celtic music can be of serious interest?  I don't necessarily mean audio interest, but music/cultural interest. [/quote] JJ, I have no idea. Amy loves bagpipes and she...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #203: The upperbass in the new room. by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I had today a long listening session. I listened  a whole Mahler Second and I can tell you that I was the best upperbass I ever heard from a playback. I am not kidding.  The upperbass literally despaired in the new room but what it is being called up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #307: A year after closing by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
This is funny. I closed my house on March 16 and today is March first. It is lost a year passed and only now I begin to feel that my playback is back. The status “back” it means that al major problems are filtered out and I just turn playback on and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Something about 'nothing'... by Axel on 2009-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aimez-vous Bartók? in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
a very good take on ones 'motivation' of musical likes and dislikes. In fairness I have listened to some rendition of Brahms’s 2nd piano concerto and it has something more for me, yet it might just simply be more 'accessible'? Maybe it has some sort ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: The reversed channels of FM broadcasts by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sansui TU-X1 Broadcast monitor. in Off Air Audio  56 Replies 
I need to address sometime this problem as many of my recordings are in random channels order. I have one of my local stations that have very good programming being very negligent to the correctness of the right and left channels and very negligent t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: The Bruckner’s macro-tone vs. Mahler’s Hi-Fi music by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
[quote user="JANDL100"] I don't know if it will have the "right tone" though - you know, I didn't think this was possible, but I think you are getting even fussier about recordings and orchestral sound as time goes by!! [/quote] Of course I’m gettin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #435: The mind boggles ... by rickmcinnis on 2013-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Since I am living with the assumption that the technology you have used is far from dated I have cannot wait to hear what you have in mind for your audio future.Since my selfish nature longs to hear what you have acheived, assuming you would allow me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Clarification? by JJ Triode on 2012-03-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Are Any Powerful Amps Worth Using? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Paul, you wrote:the best bass I have heard came from triode PP ampsWhich PP triode amps, using which output tubes?the little 2A3s have wonderful bass (as far as it goes...)Which 2A3s?  The Wright 3.5s, other single-ended, or PP?I am mostly using PP a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Deep in the well of lower frequencies by Gregm on 2008-04-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Greg, I have written about my "DEBZ" speakers several times at this site, [/quote]D. Olsher's Basszilla -- of course! Sorry, Paul, I forgot.[quote user="Paul S"]If I were to do the DEBZ concept right now, I would tune the BR...
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