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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Since the electricity going better as temperature outside goes down I might begin to play and appreciate again some sting music. Lately, I bought 6 CDs and all of them turned out to be very interesting.
1) Herbert: Cello Conc...
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Sometimes in July WCRB broadcasted something life from Tanglewood and in the break they after running the normal commercial they played a fragment from James Levine leading BSO with Mussorgsky-Ravel’s “Pictures…”. It was Promenade 3 and it was ...
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The BSO’s session was opened today, welcome back James Levine.
The concert was ridicules in a way. It stated early. The fist past was Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila Overture. The Overture was a nightmare. The dull and boring orchestra was juts re...
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[quote user="drdna"] It is NOT that better tubes have no vibration. Instead, the tubes that sound best to me seem to have a sort of springy sound, like the sound of a water drop or the sound of the tabla drum being struck. [/quote]
Interesting. My f...
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This weekend the new 6-chenal Milq is not finished yet design-vise but functionally is already “there”. The amp was good enough to play with other 3-chenal Milq. Firstly for the last month I was able to listen full stereo from Macondo…. I spend some ...
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Kodomo, I do not like ported sound, it always have a problem
with the way how ported enclosures present vowels. You can tune them in this
way or in that way but all of the ported systems I heard have the own characteristic
coloring vowel at the ve...
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Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio did a series of one-stage DHTs with a step-up transformer input about ten years ago. I think they were called the Mercury series. By all accounts, they sounded good, but of course had limited gain, not much power and...
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A few years back, instructing young photographers, I was trying to pitch them an idea that “dramatic” depicting of a bride is not compatible with presenting her in chic format. Drama and chic are in a way antagonistic concept where one destroys a...
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Romy, Some very good points here... if I downloaded the correct schematic from your site for the 6-channel Melq amp (also has the term DSET in the title) then you have created a 6-channel SET amp with built-in crossover points. Your first ...
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[quote user="nl"]The 45 is a wonderful tube for running compression drivers.
Many people like carbon comp resistors for the plate load, and paper/oil capacitors for the coupling cap here.
PIOs take some time to break in.
Of course you want...
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[quote user="cv"] …..and I am not confident about the sonics….[/quote]
What might be very interesting also is to learn what DC coupling in power amps would do generally in term of Sound.
The first time I thought about it was a few years back when ...
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[quote user="darkmoebius"] I would never just jump in and attempt to build the Melq (or any other amp) without months of studying the design … [/quote]
Good motivations. To simplify everything: the Melquiades was at attempt to make two stages, capac...
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It happen that I thought that my old Sony XBR Trinitron TV when sound and I was forced to by a new one. The old TV turner out to be fine and I was stupid to be left with the new one. It is a contemporary LED TV, they say the it is the best. I say...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]OK, sure -- but why do they "need" that? Mainly, to indulge readers, who demand a vocabulary and tangible numbers. You and me can go along merrily discussing what we hear and make ourselves understandable, but the vast majo...
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It is even hard to critique because it is beyond of being ignorant of stupid. The John E. Johnson’s review of Lamm L2 preamp in the “Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity”. Below are the fragments of the John E. Johnson’s pearls… Each quoted stat...
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[quote user="hagtech"]As usual, they leave out the VacuTrace, by far the best modern day tube tester. [/quote]Interesting, Jim.
I was not in the market for tube tester but I looking at your tracer I fugue out that I might sell a few my chea...
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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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[quote user="Stitch"]Magico started very fast from unknown brand to a very well known brand. They must have investors that they can afford the marketing (I guess). Family business manufacturers can not afford that, no matter how good their products a...
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Yestoday I visited the NY show and I did something that did not do for 3 years: I bought a few CDs at thier audiophile’s fleamarket. I did not really need them but lately I heard a lot of positive comments about the superior quality of new SACD-relea...
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The folks who read my site know that I keep puling from Tokyo’s HMV the Japanese domestic mastering of the performances that I have interest in. The Japanese for own market just press with completely deferent level of quality and I love their masteri...
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MRAVINSKY'S RECORDINGS (1938-1984) IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERThe data courtesy to Kenzo Amoh from Tokio
1938/03/27-4/3 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 OMel 06820/33 unknown
1938-1939 Leningrad R M Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 BMG(J) BVCX 80...
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OK, it is another direct-heated amp with Russian GM-100
driven by a pair of 6N6P. There are many GM-100 amps out there and it certainly
a good candidate for high power SET amp.
I never heard of this amp or even never heard about the company, and ...
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Vasily Petrenko, the conductor the makes a lot of waves in Europe will lead BSO with all Russian program: Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique, Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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[quote user="Paul S"]So, does anyone know anything about "good" sockets for the ML-2s? I forget when and where I saw some sort of boutique Teflon jobbies that are pretty darned expensive. Maybe DIY Hi-Fi, in Hong Kong? Also, although Teflon is a ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdf[/quote] Here is the lit sucker that I told you before. It is Russian impersonisation of Telefunken AD1. It was made from 1932 to 1963. It is smaller than 2A3, the size of the larg...
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I know – it idiotic even for my site but it us what it is. I do not think that I can generalize my observations as I have not a lot of experience with DHT tubes but one thing that I have been observing for the last week is really arouse my curios...
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I closed up the amps and moved it to the default operation position, right along with it all Dominus cables and so on. I played just mono music and was very interesting where I will find myself with this amp Sound. The right channel still was s...
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I did an interesting experiment today trying to learn if those Melquiades driver tubes have even gain. The Russian tubes are notorious to have very widely spreading specification, so….
I took 14 6E6P. Some of then were new, some used and some violen...
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Amy is going at some kind of conference in San Francisco
during the February-March spilt and she wants me to go with her. She loves to
have her House Boy Coco with her to get her foot massages and back rubs… So, I
am trying to figure out what I wi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]OK, everything was fine and I might do into the sonic nuances of the PurePower unit. The PurePower drives a lot of switching nose from output. It has the filters but they help only partially. Adding capacitance to the PureP...
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