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People frequently ask me what would be a good speaker to buy for $5.000, for $10.000 for $20.000 for $50.000 and so on. The more I think about it looking at the park of available loudspeakers the more I come to the observation that there are no good ...
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I think I have too much time on my hands or use my time in highly stupid fashion but I decided to do today the experiment about witch I was thinking for a while. The experiment was “methodology clean” and lead me to quite interesting discoveries. Sin...
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Like I’ve said, my aim was to find/build a pair of
speakers that could be driven “full range” by one of my Marantz MA-9S2 amps per
stereo channel, and these speakers would have to give me greater insight into
Bruckner in order to fill the bill. I ...
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There is no "one tube DHT amp." There are only amps with gain in one box or two boxes.
Your 6E5P tube is not so special. People have been making WE437 spud amps since the 1960s. There is a class of amps that use a high-gm tube driver and a DHT out...
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Hi Romy, hi folksMy intro hello and first post, i just had to sign up. Just found the platform through googlin some hornstuff and came back too often.Especially the resonating oops was the latest topic that really cought my attention as im familar, a...
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[quote
user="rowuk"] To answer the philosophical questions first - at least
from my view: [/quote]
Rowuk, I very much not in agreement
with your choosing the answer the first philosophical questions. I just think
it is not accurately describin...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote: A preamplifier shall be modular - the ability to insert
n quantity (maybe 20?) of input cards on a backplane (for phono MC/phono
MM/line level/Balanced/Single ended/TOSLink) as well as be configured for
mul...
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One sees this question often posed, and I think rightly so. I've been introduced to some fine music and performance by my friends and associates. In fact, they're better than reviewers!
So I was dismayed when I started off a post with...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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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 ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...
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[quote user="Dominic"] I've run into that yucky place where words get in the way of ideas. The mastership is what i'm after. [/quote]
Yes, it is the yucky place where words get in the way of ideas. I did not use “mastership” in term of skills or cra...
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These thoughts come in the wake of Romy’s recent encounter with a certifiable fringe dweller who, IMO, is not just illustrative in the generic hi-fi nutbag sense, but also in the there’s-more-to-this-nutbag-than-his-worst-would-suggest sense. B...
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The twins were born in mid of august last year. Since then I
had time and strength to finicky with my playback here and there. It is not set
ups up to my standard yet and the playback is not properly imbedded into my new
listening room. The people...
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[quote user="Gregm"]I used an inexpensive dsp ....I had excellent response from the auditorium.[/quote]Yes, I hear what you say but still - “the excellent response from the auditorium” is quite meaningless judgment. Well, it is all depends what the o...
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I have recently one of those "audio visits" where
a g guy from far away lends with his morono-emblematic jazz interests spent an evening
in my listening room. As usually we play some of my recording and spin some vinyl
and as usually I was holding...
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Marc Mickelson always was one of the heroes of audio propaganda – he always was able to load a maximum cargo of “strategic information” to the readers without being insulting to anyone and without too obvious demonstration of his real intentions. I r...
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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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[quote
user="mats"]I’d like to pick up on one thing the visitor noted.
He said Macondo was able to “dissect” the most “complex and
dramatic” Bruckner.
To me, this is a stunning achievement. In my humble attempts
at resolving the most
complex...
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I sometime try to address broad and purely abstractive audio issues, still without a big hope then it would be properly understood or properly interpreted by most of the readers, not to mention anyone else. An average audio person do not need a broad...
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The first level of listening perception is Static Level. At this level a listener perceives musical information as a collection of the individual sounds and a listening awareness tries to evaluate the “convince-ability” of those sounds. At this level...
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I met a few days back a person who does high-end audio and in fact he does. He has multiple turntables, he has discrimination taste in audio components/elements, has his ideas how a playback might or should be built. For all intended purpose he i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Rowuk, I very much on the same page with you. I
do not buy the idea that piano could "ruin" sound of those Tanoys
like it was in the case of my guy above or that it makes too much resonance in
case of orchestral /ch...
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Romy,
As with all such matters,
‘Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
(Hamlet)
I should leave aside matters tha...
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The regular readers of my audio blog probably have read the thread: “How to record FM broadcasts” at:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1644
As you know I turned into to do it digitally and I do like it quite a lot. A couple months ...
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The visitors of my site who have read my observations about the CES 2005
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1918
are familiar with my very positive impressions about NESPA Optical Disc Finalizer.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeIte...
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State-of-the-art Orchestra: 32 Loudspeakers
by
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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The 6moon has posted an article about the Living Voice:
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian.html
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/livingvoice2/olympian_2.html
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The other day I was listening to a friend´s system with nice Avalon speakers, only one 10" seemed to be enough, of course it seemed we were playing house when listening to music, everything was small and very nice and pretty...Now when matc...
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I do not particularly see a problem with 17K cartridge. I don’t
read a full review, scan a few paragraphs and did not find it interesting for
me. The purpose of this writing, like most of the writing from those type of
people, is to convince a rea...
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