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I picked this up a few weeks ago and it has become one of those CDs that I keep returning to often. I don't know what it is about the Russians, but they seem to perform music with such passion. Maybe it is all of the suffering they, as a ...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Interesting how the greatness of their works, and the "mental illness" of Tchaikovsky and of Nietzsche (the guy who gave name to Dimas SS amp!) coincided in the end of the 1880-ies.[/quote]This is complicated. I personally do not...
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With 'The Cat's' reputation in the audio community, why not take advantage of that (for the good)?. The Cat's trademark is enough to draw people in from the audio world, and from there the regular punters (non audio enthusiasts). If costs were contro...
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In the thread GM70 vs. 6C33C two year back I have written that the only tube that I would like to trey in Milq besides 6C33C would be YO-186.
I am not sure that it might be a right direction or even interesting direction but I picked yesterday a par...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Got today a party of the 6C18C from 1960s, an interesting tube. The plate looks like 1/4 times larger and has no bridge between the halves. The 6C18C has even less plate impedance than 6C33C and it appears that it futures i...
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It is July Forth holidays and again across American will be placing the Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Among near 20 overtures that Tchaikovsky’s composed it is difficult to find as bad composition as the 1812 Overture and it is very sorry that we Amer...
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Thanks to our friend Ann we get to sit about 8 feet behind the conductor in the second row. The oboe, and the horns maybe even more, were amazingly haunting in the letter scene. It was of course sung in russian, and the translation was qu...
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Since I can't read Cyrillic/Russian, I may never know anything significant about these wonderful piano/trombone duets. I am guessing from dates on the label that the compositions are from the early 1800s through the 1930s.The album jac...
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I do not have any special love with GU-48/833 and I named them only as examples. If somebody do it then I would root for GU-48 instead of 833 as the GU-48 are much cheaper, easy to get and Russian tubes tend to be more bassy then western tubes (and l...
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From the “trusted” sources (whatever it worth) I heard very positive comments about the pre-2004 production compare to the vintage tubes. There is however a twist in it that I hope you will explore as it is very much your subject. The contemporary pr...
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I also have problems with Prokofiev, like having noisy, intrusive neighbors' sounds flying around while I'm trying to do something else. I do have what I think is a good version of his VC2, but I forget which dead Russian violinist was lead. I'll try...
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…. what tube’s socket is arcing. If the tube juts started to ark then bending the tube legs, cleaning the sockets 9scabng the meta with no marks of the ark left) and treating it with conceive grease might help. Do not forget that most of the ...
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Romy,I can only agree with your desire. I wish that I had started learning Russian for the same reasons you mention for German.I am an American that has been living in Germany since 1975. It took a couple of years to be able to understand the deeper ...
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Out of 6 languages that I speak German has been for me the most difficult to learn(i inherited 3 slavic languages, otherwise they, or at least Russian, would occupy the top). Spanish, at least basic, is a child play.I spent 3.5yrs in the capital of H...
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It was an excellent article in today New York Times:
Remembering Rostropovich, the Master Teacher By MICHAEL WHITEMANCHESTER, England
IT is a truth upheld by many in the music world if not universally acknowledged that pianists are neurotic, violin...
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[quote user="mats"]Good to hear about your week with Mussorgsky Romy. I came upon a mono Leibowitz / RPO RCA the other day. It has its moments IMHO. There seems also to be a new HMV Richter Sofia recital cd from HMV:
http://...
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A few months John Hasquin sent me a picture of someone’s horns suggesting … actually he did not suggested anything but after I saw the picture I was laughing hard and quite long. I found that those horns were very symptomatic to the most horns ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Yes yes yes .... Lamm Industries is a BUSINESS... This is abundantly clear whenever I order tubes from them! [/quote]
Hm, I did not know that you use any Lamm electronics. In fact I just realized that I have absolu...
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It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times…
I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...
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It turned out that I made my Melquiadenisation with 6C33C. Not practically because it is good or bad tube. The choose of 6C33C was partially accidental: in the beginning I was trying to make an amp that would be able to work in multi-app configuratio...
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Morricab,
I do not know the “truth” and what I said are pure my speculations based upon what I hear and what I measure.
Yes, Lamm drivers at 310mA quite hard but do not forget that his objectives, besides everything, were to get out of his SET max ...
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Before announcing Lavry complete failure against Bidat when Lavry was driven by a CD transport I have to make a very important comment: in my case the transport was not a regular transport but the CEC-TL0, a know son of a digital bitch.
I know quit...
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Gregm,
I do not think that to be reasonable is a tall order, in fact I would insist that I nothing but reasonable.
Still, I feel that it is a huge distraction for people and a disappointment for me that others see juts an amplifier with a bi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote: Romy the Cat wrote:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/pdf/YO-186.pdfI have to admit that I have written a few pieces of writing about my experiences with YO186 but I withhold to post it as I do not know if...
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[quote user="Gregm"]"ASR do not use the regular ICs but the ICs that they removed form the demilitarized Russian nuclear missiles console and fallen Chinese satellites" ...which means that they use cheap, used ICs. So, the dealer has a better m...
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A few year back a Russian audiologist A. Likhnitsky’s published a book “Sound Quality: New approach to testing of the home audio equipment”. (P&K, 1998) The book has many positive moments and altogether it was a wonderful attempt to bring i...
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On the eve of an ambitious BBC retrospective, Adam Sweeting reports on the controversies that still surround the composer's death
In summer 2005, the BBC launched a blitz of round-the-clock Beethoven on TV and radio in what was supp...
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Well, let call it Slav music. All Russian composers of 20 century were in one way of other took the torch from Rimsky-Korsakov. Ironically I’m not a big fun of Rimsky-Korsakov’ symphonic music because it is too Slav, overwhelmingly and insultingly Sl...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Do you know of other renditions of this work worth the purchase?[/quote] This concerto is “lucky”, it well-performed and there are many good recordings. Some of my “honorable mentions” would be: Michelangeli with anybody else...
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