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Romy:I hope you and Amy are snug amid the storm and have good electricity (well, any electricity in a big blizzard is good electricity, I guess.) What music do you find appropriate to the weather this weekend? There should be something suitable in ...
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Nice video: Soft tones are easy, even for horns, the minuteness, the clear detail, the low distortion of horns playing softly is what kept me into them. Then Vengerov cries out: "Still this is more important", when music calls for character and pu...
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The Sixth Symphony is very idiosyncratic and I would feel that it has interest only for aficionado of the Sixth Symphony who might look for very different reading of the work. The 1812 in another hand is one of the greatest 1812 even committed to rec...
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This gentleman's set-up makes me think very much of the one I have in mind for my new room in due course. Whilst as Romy points out, the room might well be on the small side, it has a very high ceiling (say 4.5 m) that in my mind always presents fabu...
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Paul, there are those Russian 450W pentodes GU80/81.http://www.tubes.ru/techinfo/AmateurRadio/gu-81m.htmlI'm also wondering how it behaves as a triode. 450W +/- compact and linear triode would be great! ...
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The arm and the table have been around for some while, I think. I saw it at a Russian show 4-5 years ago. Otherwise I can only agree with Romy that it's an unusual design....
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I listened to a fragment of a Queen of Spades aria while driving home this evening and it never ceases to amaze me how Tchaikovsky's music can touch me so deeply as I was able to identify the music's author after just a few chords considering that I ...
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I have a pair of the english crossovers with russian caps i dopn't need willing tgo sell for half price if you are in the US and waNT THEM. They hAVE A CLEANER SDOUND THAN MY TWO SETS OF ORIGINAL CROSSOVERS but not as roman tic.am using my trinnov al...
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Old Parts Club people climb over each other's backs for orange and lemon drops, old washing machine motor run, Russian Guided Missle controllers, etc., but good moderns caps certainly have better specs. In any case, evaluations of any new caps should...
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[quote user="Michaelz"]Make sure that the painist does not think that you are a stalker of hers!![/quote]
Well, I did not mean to sound like this but can not resist replying: I said I was a lucky Pussy, not the pianist was.
Anyhow it was truly plea...
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I relay do not know what is in the mine of those idiots. Generally Westerns companies when they do multiple re-mastering of the same peace they try to make it better. With Russian is it looks like not there case
In 90s EMI released on CD the indispe...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] And of course there was the Onegin of the Onegins: the performance in 1955 by Boris Khaikin with Bolshoi Orchestra & Chorus in studio of Moscow Radio Center. [/quote] Ah, I was spinning today the Khaikin’s Onegin’55. Y...
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As far as I know the Matacic discography never was made available. A few weeks ago a fellow at other (more amorphous) forum – Mr. Makopolus - published his list that I find worth to be preserved and publicized. So he is it: the Matacic discogra...
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I stopped by today during my lunch at my local “loony Tunes” and suddenly stumbled upon a LYS reissue (via the Dante Production) of Golovanov’s 1948 Boris Godunov. (LYS 349-351)
I have mentioned this performance above. It is a studio recoding where ...
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Well Ronnie, welcome to the world of classical music! Tschaikovsky 4th
is actually my favourite Tschaikovsky symphony (Mravinsky!), followed
by the 6th symphony (also Mravinsky). The 4th is dramatic, dynamic and
opera like, the 6th is tragic: when...
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Hi friends,I'm an abosolute ignorant about these two composers and coincidentally to their anniversaries, I've thought to ask for your wise advice. I like russian composers and also orchestral works better than chamber ones, so fire your guns. If you...
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You're welcome, Romy.I have still not found the original Russian "number" for those ones, but if ever I will, I'll forward you the info.For what purpose are you using them at 22mA ?...
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[quote user="skushino"]bty, I enjoyed watching video of Nutcracker at your house. [/quote] Actually Scott it was not the Nutcracker, I do not think that I even have Nutcracker-video ballet at my home. The peace that I showed you as quite intere...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] I said I'm a moron ;-).[/quote]
I am not very pleased that many people who only know me via Web chronically misused a word Moron. I very easy grant the “Moronity Status” to many people in audio but I do it not only because ...
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Glazunovs’ symphonies are not well know but his 5, 6, 7, 8 symphonies are quite good with some movements from the 6th and 8th are almost great. Glazunov’s composed 9th symphony, well, only first movement and then he died. The 9th symphony practically...
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Some people I read about on Russian audio site made experiment running DA10 and Berkeley DAC in different systems and found Berkeley DAC more interesting. I am not sure what it means – I invest very little credibility to most of the people out there ...
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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 ...
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thanks, and so I will give this a few more chances to see if I will be able to connect.Though as I noted, even Tchaikovsky had his issues with man. (Not that I am anywhere near as perceptive as that good Russian was :-)Axel...
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Thanks Romy,Yes, I will explore Khachaturian more...I like him even though he keeps company with the lesser respected of composers. It is kind of a shame that the secondary composers often get pushed aside by the major, important work...
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Nope, the Russian tubes generally much, in fact much worse than western equivalents. There were however some exceptions. Those options were due to various reasons. The tubes like GM70, YO186, 1P24B, 6E5P, 6N30P, BO188, GM57, UB180, 6C33C, 6N6P, M...
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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!).I am not sure I would go so far as to throw Nanut's Tchaikovsk...
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Was talking with various audio people about the 6C33C I was amazed that people are so clueless about this tube. The people are so filled with some foolish prejudges and faulty notions about 6C33C that I deseeded to put together a brief “6C33C user ma...
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Here is a document in Swedish language that describes its authors’ view on 6E5P. Since the author extensively use a park of Russian tubes I presume that he is Russian descent.
http://www.romythecat.com/pdf/6E5P_Swedish.pdf
If you do not speak Swedi...
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I was attending on Monday concert with former Svetlanov’s Orchestra and the idiot Danis Matsuev playing the Third Conserto. I hoped it would be a good gift but it was not, though the attentive slow cadenza that become so much popular among the contem...
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Sorry Romy, the broadcast was early in March, and I missed it too.Tonight I am going to the live performance.I think FMT struggled a bit with the sound this first year.Did you hear any of the Lyric broadcasts?I have been playing my Melodia vinyl with...
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