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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Going Through Phases by Paul S on 2010-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The loudspeakers for a powerful SET in Audio Discussions  48 Replies 
Crossovers are so annoying, about impossible to nail down, and it's almost as though the more you study the problem, the fuzzier the "answer" gets.For now, I would like to more or less forget about "phase" considerations, partly in order to get this ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Buckner, Toscanini, Celibidache, Asahina and... Yoshi by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
Yep, the Toscanini performance was a big surprise to me as well. Interestingly he does not play it as I would like Buckner generally, it is too “artistically expressive”, good only for Rimsky-Korsakov or Ravel but… still the way how Toscanini’s orche...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #73: I do not think that duplication is applicable in here. by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
[quote user="yoshi"]  I assume it is the result of specifically targeted application to an already … and would be very difficult to duplicate anywhere else. [/quote] As usually I have difficulties with it - the duplication. This subject would g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Re: FM... other factors at work? by cv on 2005-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The FM Radio. What a Hell?! in Off Air Audio  7 Replies 
Allo Clark: I think that's a quite different analogy. I've never felt particularly comfortable in libraries at all, nice not to have to edit out noisy semi-non-essential bodily functions etc. Yoshi: Interesting observations, which to my mind sugges...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Much deeper question then you might think. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: From Newton to Einstein in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="yoshi"]Lack of "intention" and lack of "the recognition of actual results"? [/quote] Actually it is a good question and the answer sits much deeper then you think. The high-end audio industry, by it’s stupid nature that is being culti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mravinsky and Bruckner’s Seventh. by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Yevgeny Mravinsky Film in Musical Discussions  9 Replies 
Yoshi, it is well known that Japanese collecting-recording culture is well more developed and very frequently the quality of this CD pressing is way more interesting then we have in States. I quite regularly buy at HMV Japan CDs. Some of them never ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: An alligator is a “bigger fried fish". by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Attention Sound Engineers (compression and loudness) in Playback Listening  47 Replies 
Yoshi, someone a few weeks ago posted a very good article on a pianist perception of added reverb. Anyhow, there is a bigger fish to fry regarding your ORIGINAL-IMAGE BIT-PROCESSING – like in anything else it is not the subject of machines but the st...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Goya vs. Pollock from Audio prospective by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Performers in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Yoshi, I think you are mistaken, let me explain why. When we enter the realm of conversations about “comparing” Goya and Pollock then we touch a very lucrative ground of actually comparing thier artistic methods, their expressionism and many other th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Takashi Asahina’s Bruckner by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner…...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: The new interesting Bruckner 7 by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
It was 2 days ago – I opened my mails box and found a gift from Yoshi with a few very interesting Japanese CDs. It was September 17, 1986. The ending his career Eugen Jochum takes Royal Concertgebouw to Japanese tour and plays in Tokyo Bruckner 7. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The Valin’s syndrome and Koetsu by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges. in Analog Playback  52 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]….both highly regarded Cartridges from TAS (Jonathan Valin) of course....[/quote] Yes, this is the problem. I do not mean the habit of playing bad record (that is problem itself) but I mean that people who in this industry...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A stunning contra-Bruckner 8 Symphony. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A stunning contra-Bruckner 8 Symphony. in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I do not even know where to start. I my comfortably warm and presold to myself world there is only one way to play Bruckner 8 symphony. I have quite a few recordings of the work that I like and I have “The Supper Recording” that makes all there r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Injection Channel – some tails for followers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Interning that the strings and are the primary beneficiaries of the “Injection channel” effect. It would be hard to explain to people who never were not in my room what the effect is but I would try. (Yoshi you have to visit me again and what I tried...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The Midnight Blue by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
Returning back to 47 Labs new tuner. There is some buzz here and there about it, nothing solid: http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/showthread.php?t=17033 http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=66861 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Matacic’s tonal extravaganza!!! by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #708: The metamorphoses complete? by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]To my surprise, pleasure and horror they all turned out to be absolutely differently sounding. PP2000 #1. This one that has been using all week - the updated my old PP2000 (new version of motherboard). This one the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: HMV Japan, Tower and Tenso by oxric on 2016-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Buying cds and records in USA and Japan in Musical Discussions  6 Replies 
Hi Yoshi  Thanks. I had a look at HMV JP; they do not have the rare 1940s OOP recording I have seen on Tower. I have two other recordings of that performance with Szell...
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