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Antonio, you might refer to Mike Lavigne from Seattle, I have mentioned him somewhere at my site. I do not know if it is the same guy but it is not the point. The too much worthless leisure time in my hands is not the point as well. The point is that...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yesterday WGBH-FM broadcasted their own live-to-tape recording of Handel & Haydn Society’s Mozart K. 626, the Requiem. John Nelson conducted with Christine Brandes, soprano; Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, t...
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Very interesting point about Gergiev. I do not dispute it. I just know that at present time some of the work released by him is very pleasing to me. That does not limit me to only listening to what Gergiev is doing. For example...
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Yesterday Boston’s WGBH broadcasted the serial Great Performances at the Met. It was very good program with the celebrated “I Puritani” with Anna Netrebko (that I do not care a lot) and surprisingly interesting the “First Emperor” with Placido...
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The next week the Tanglewood Festival Chorus with Soprano Norah Amsellem, William Ferguson tenor and Christian Gerhaher barrito are going to play the celebrated Carmina Burana by Orff. To hear this with Tanglewood but inside she’ll be VERY in...
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I did find replacement tubes OK (online), just not locally, like I had hoped. I have now recieved, installed and tested all new tubes but the 6N6Ps, which have been delayed in St. Petersberg by Christmas mail jamb-up. ...
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Since my last post to this thread I have listened to a few more versions of Ein deutsches Requiem, and I plan to share my thoughts about some of them, starting with the best so far. This is the 1940 live performance by the Concertgebouw Orchestra wi...
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RomyYour first question was "Does it do bass"... Yes, and it does it full frequency with great tonality. I am a ribbon panel owner as you may remember and also have modified Tannoys as monitors so I know easily when I am lacking in the bass departmen...
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Indeed a good review. The author in my view spent too much time promoting the theoretical benefits of symstrick power. I do not degree with all those theoretical justifications and the very practical natural nose rejections of symmetric power but it ...
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[quote]“The
Tenors bring a remarkable top-to-bottom continuity, which I've often
called the Kharma effect (the speaker, not the moral law of cause and
effect)...[/quote] This is intriguing. All of the Kharmas I've listened to have displayed contin...
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Ok, none it is time to dive into the practical process of tweeters alignment. Once again I presume that we are taking about monopole tweeters that use AFTER your midranges compression drivers (read my previous post). Some people use term “supertweete...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Some of those Altec horns were textbook examples of both types of bell-like resonance, where the body of the horn itself resonated and certain bell-like artifacts were created/amplified by/in the horns' mouths. [/quote] Hmmmmmmm...
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I'm also of the opinion that the bass is one of the most critical and most challenging parts of playback. Not talking about quantity, but rather the quality of bass reproduction. My approach has been to split the bass in two parts - Low and...
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Well, sadly James Levin is out the summer season and will be substituted but it is what it is.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 8:00 PM - Emerson String Quartet performing all Mozart program a...
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In begin on April in Montreal will be the Son & Image show. I have no specific planes at that weekend and was wondering if it were fun to go there. In past it was nice, I was flying there $140 tickets two ways, very short fly of under one hour,&n...
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I use to bring a CD player to work, not anymore. My dally listening in office last few months is strictly internet. My most favorite station is ABC – Australasian Broadcast Corporation – a phenomenal source of good taste, excellent program, sane comm...
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I never was a big fun of Pletnev. Even his Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto (he plays piano), which many promoted as an “ultimate Rach 3” I found was unspeakably bad. Still, the “live” is live at it defiantly ads a lot of kink.
In regards of the recor...
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My WHRB’s starts the spring Orgy period, the podcast available on-line.
http://www.whrb.org/
On May 5th 6MP, WHRB starts to broadcast 3–days long Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy with the following program:1865 (rev. 1884): Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1; ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Now I am wondering: If we go to such trouble to have transformers wound for our particular applications, maybe we could just as well be winding our narrow band voice coils and welding them to our/their own output tubes.[/qu...
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Romy
The bridge has burned down and please revoke my membership to this forum.
Drdna
I knew many a Tenor player that could improvise and move a jazz loving person to an inner experience.
When younger I would ask them how t...
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I am kind of semi-evaluating a power amplifier now and think about the following: there is a correct relation between harmonic content of amplifier and it’s dynamic aptitude.
I have heard many amplifiers that run across the dynamic range with a tre...
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I think it is a simple case of different strokes for different folks.
Drdna writes about communicating the essence of sound - I write about the essence of music. He writes about wondering what Coltrane was thinking. I write about hearing him looki...
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Recently, I would say the last 2-3 years, I detected a very foolish tendency that audio people are brewing within themselves. A typical today’s audiofool holds within itself a hope about existing of a “secret”, no discovered yet, SS high power amplif...
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Paul,
20th C classical music wasn't that popular when it was new except in vocal works. The few exceptions either had some rhythmic or melodically memorable aspect. What I mean is that people can accept something more novel and complicated wh...
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I was cleaning my old file server and found my old associations after auditioning some of High End gear... Atma-Sphere Lying in a bathroom with the bathtub filled with motor oil. Spectral Begging for any liqu...
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Pandora's Magic BoxRestoration of the music's dynamic range in historical recordings by: Pierre A. Paquin
We are now able to enjoy great recording of the distant past, thanks to the efforts of several successful and dedicated engineers who have had...
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[From something I wrote five years ago.]Any schöne Müllerin fans out there? The great Schubert cycle about (I had thought) a young man's woes in wooing? Well!... For a new and shocking reevaluation of all that we had thought about this expressiv...
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Ah, such a beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful discovery!
After all, after the years of dealing and fighting with it I come up with the observation that the Vitavox S2 driver could and actually should be used “as is”. The harshness that I was re...
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Conchita Supervia (1895-1936)By Professor Stanley Henig
“A magnetic personality, as well as a great singer…. the kind of artist around whose name legends gather”(Desmond Shawe-Taylor)
“Her gaiety, good temper, sympathy, and charm cloaked a k...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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