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Wifey went on an errand today and on a hunch I fired up the system to listen to some Schubert lieder and a piano sonata.Despite a dry east wind, it was not as hot as predicted, and despite schools in session, etc., the electricity was very good. ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Otherwise I would buy Warren’s Ikonoklast speaker with Lowther DX-4 driver and will be discovering how to “proporly” appreciate the Decca cartridge[/quote]Ouch!Did you have to mention the Ikonoklast speakers? Of cours...
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I agree wholeheartedly with Stich that there is nothing "behind the curtain" that "stands by itself" due to some inherent value. As a Well Tempered (Reference) arm user, I always warn everyone who will listen that this arm is totally "over-damped" "...
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No question in my mind that the tubes themselves contribute to the sound we get from tube-based systems. Funny how I go to such lengths to get "quiet" tubes and use dampers even as I realize that even the quietest tubes are doing their bit to/f...
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Romy,i just wanted to chime in by saying that i stopped subscribing to TAS years ago because i couldn't endure Fremer, who then wrote for them. i simply couldn't stand his tone, his journalistic "persona", and the fact that he appeared to listen to n...
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Another “interesting” thing... Any amplifier that I know is absolutely disabled to let me as a listener to extract from music something without unavoidable loosing a perspective to the whole musical peace. The Melquiades swallows this task with ...
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This subject of digital crossovers became quite popular during last few years and many audio-people give up and go for a simplicity and painlessness of digital crossovering. There is an army of people out there who would swear by a complete transpare...
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[quote user="mats"]Fremer reviewed the Monaco : http://stereophile.com/turntables/1107gp/[/quote]
Hm, I did not know it as I buy Stereophile very sporadically. I scanned at the Fremer’s thoughts about Monaco. I do not know…. I do not feel that...
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Romy wrote:
"...I know there are a lot of people who feel the CRW and DVD drivers in regular PS [CD and DVD drives in regular PCs] are just fine or even better then best dedicated audio CD transports..."
I am one such person; well n...
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[quote user="cv"] I bet Yamamura is using non-causal filtering... this is all running off a music server, so could process everything offline. [/quote] Chris, there is no such a thing as “non-causal filtering”. Filtering is filtering, would it d...
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Music does not only expose to musical ideas and permit to share human expirences but also us it reconstructs our own experiences. How many times we hear one or other piece of music and refer our attention to the moments when we first time heard or th...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]I cannot forget ALL the load of fantastic music and recordings I discovered in the decades ONLY thanking this or that audio magazine reviews... [/quote]
I am not so lucky and the recordings recommendations from audio ...
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Romy, Just a few notes.... I did use the term "crappy" in the connection with the tonearm in an ironic sense. Have you lived so long among US Americans you lost your sense of irony? Also, i do not suggest crappy Phonostages, merely ones with low inpu...
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Nycparamedic,
Thanks for your comment. It was interning as I am very far away from the Linux gaily and have absolutely no idea what kind gravitation forces are in play there. Even though I do understand that advantages to run dedicated operation sys...
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I pretty much know what I need to do – I need to go for shaper filter built in my power amp. The second order I have no is too impactful to midbass, so I need to do for 2th order or perhaps for 4th and try to integrate it. Whatever it will be I thin...
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[quote user="Telus"]
JR: “The problem is two or three identifiable frequency-dependent sources has no reference in live music either …”
RTC: “It is true…”
No, it is not true. You’re both dead wrong. [/quote]
Although I do not disagree with...
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I am not well familiar with what Berkeley. Their voyage to the beginnings unit that the company started was irrelevant to me and then thinner USB version did not attract my attention. It is not that I feel that they were bad units. I never had th...
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I really enjoy this site. Romy has a fresh view that is actually easy to understand, if one simply reads instead of interpreting what he writes.Still, a view from "higher up" is something that many of us are not privileged to. Looking at the major co...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, not really.
I have been pitching for the years a concept that the answers in audio are NOT located in audio and that the entire audio actually starts form a library (it it’s metaphorical definition). I had been...
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I was listening yesterday the Karajan 1976 performance of Bruckner 5 with Berlin Philharmonic. It is one of the greatest fifth I know off and I love it tremendously. I am not sure what happened but I think I lost consciousness listing the perfor...
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded. If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] This is to me the most difficult problem to solve. For example, you may decide that your problem is a lack of spaciousness, which may be due to a lack of correct delay, wrong bass response, poor detail retrieval or whatever....
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“I do not what to go there but be advised that touching an elephant’s tail you might have a wrong impression what elephant is all about.”
More accurately this should read as follows: “I do not what to go there but be advised that touching a horse’s...
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Hello all,Some time ago, I bought a pair of very early production ML2s for an ongoing horn project (see "Note at end").Rather than just let the ML2s sit and wait for the horns to get done, I of course tried them out with my "normal" 89db/watt@1m spea...
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Jerry,
I got your Nanut CDs, thank you very much. I did not send to you anything yet – I will. Too much going on my plate now… Not to mention that I recently change my recording software and I need to see how this time I will be converting my ...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]It, unfortunately, happens to me when I'm REALLY enjoying music... without shame, slow, heavy tears which I leave rolling on my face 'til they're cold. [/quote]
It has nothing to do with unfortunately or fortunately. ...
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[quote user="Earl Geddes"]I continue to be baffled by listeners who are seeking the global ‘good sounding” loudspeaker - the Holy Grail of loudspeaker design. By this I mean the loudspeaker that makes any and all source-material sound good to them. U...
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I was taking lately with the Blue Angel’s Andre and kept asking him about his cartridge’s bass. He got “scared” and asked me if I am looking for overly-anaphased bass, then he asked what kind music I am listening. I perfectly understand why he got “s...
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[quote user="TheOptimist"]I've done some work with Mr. xyz, I know the guy, and most importantly, I've ACTUALLY HEARD HIS TURNTABLE. It is a sonic work of art. You CONSTANTLY bash it, but it's always "a guy you know" that has complaints about it. No ...
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This is something I have been at for the last few years, I have tried a few drivers, at the moment some of my favorite are the vintage RCA MI 1443, yes filed coil and some funny cone diaphragm, they are used from 500 hz to 5 khz with a Fostex T...
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