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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #241: Mobile device by steverino on 2025-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  241 Replies 
I have only fuzzy notions about what sort of audio (if any) gets others going these days. Paul, Since almost everything these days is being mixed and mastered for the mobile dev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #240: Can do one better by steverino on 2025-11-13 
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Wojtek,  I'll see your low res old Spendors and raise it with my beloved 8 track tape player in the car! I do have pretty decent tonally balanced rear speakers though. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Worshipping by steverino on 2025-06-15 
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Romy, We all know that with audio it is rarely an all or none matter.  I have no problem with venue recording, i.e. not in a  studio but obviously the musicians, the engineers and the masterers can mess things up. With respect to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Black bass by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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Well I tried to give my explanation whether it convinces anyone. I think it is basically due to jamming a large orchestra into that church given its particular layout. I will have to get the CD to do  a comparison with the video. It does have a pleas...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Wand Bruckner LPs by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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The only Wand Bruckner LP set was on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi in the late 80s. I have some of those LPs. There was also a box set of the Symphonies. They were all with the Cologne Orchestra though.(Kolner Rundfunk Sinfonie) ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Sonics by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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Nice musical performance. My take on it (listening on Sennheiser headphones) is that there is a bit of extra bass reinforcement, not only because of the close seating but also the rather reflective, slightly curved backdrop right behind the musicians...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Thanks for the link by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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Yikes the orchestra is really jammed in there.  There is no space behind them and a few spill out to the left side. The audience is similarly pushed right up next  to Wand and the orchestra. No wonder this has unusual sonics.  In 1987 there would...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Here is a vid by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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Paul, I am attaching the link of the video so you can see for yourself. Apparently it is one of the longest churches at 132 meters. I can believe that this place would have a different reverb pattern than the usual space. But aga...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Lubeck cathedral by steverino on 2025-06-14 
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The only recording I see for a Wand Sym 8 1987 NDR  recording is a live performance in the Lubeck cathedral. I could only find one video of the cathedral interior. It looks very long with immensely high ceilings but relatively narrow. I was tryin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Is it live or memorex? by steverino on 2025-06-13 
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I'm a bit unclear if the discussion is centered around deep bass on recordings or live in concert halls as well? The problem of deep bass (low organ notes or synthesizers below 30 Hz) is that they vibrate the room. In a concert hall there is no discr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #100: Rvg by steverino on 2025-04-19 
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My understanding there is that at a very early date (~ 1957-58) RVG used fold downs from the stereo mix to create the mono mix. I'd have to research which LP was the "last" true Mono mix. So it was not secret stereo but fold down Mono. As for your me...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: If we are taling about Miles by steverino on 2025-04-19 
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My thought would be try things out on his studio albums from 1960- 72 or so. Once you get to "Live" recordings in the pop field it is anyone's guess what they did including recording in the studio and adding reverb and crowd noise.  Or translate to w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Pop vs classical by steverino on 2025-04-19 
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Paul S,  I think per the above 5 page discussion, this is very far from the usual get this component and hookup here or modify components this way. So i don't see any generic solution being advanced that is at the level of this p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Doesn't that go without saying???? by steverino on 2025-03-31 
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Slower is better, even my wife agree with this... I would just timidly no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Not my intent by steverino on 2025-02-13 
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Paul,  Just a style point with me. If I am responding specifically to someone I will either start with their name or include a quote. So my comment was intended to the Hypothetical Other to support the mention of Hurwitz as a commenter but jus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Cycling by steverino on 2025-02-13 
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i have respect for Hurwitz particularly when he advocates for the lesser known but musically excellent compositions of prior eras. When it comes to the mainstream repertoire I think people just need to find their own way through it....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The center of attention by steverino on 2025-01-09 
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"You see, so much applause, so much public. Then, in half an hour, you feel alone more than before."   ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: I hate when that happens. by steverino on 2025-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (FULL DOCUMENTARY AND CONCERT) in Musical Discussions  7 Replies 
Well if it is misplaced you will always recognize the cover. Stokowski Beserker!  ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Stokowski by steverino on 2025-01-04 
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Just out of curiosity does anyone else but me like the Stokowski performance of the Tchaikovsky Sym 4. It first appeared on a Vanguard LP with the American Symphony which I assume was an alias for the NY Phil players slumming but maybe someone knows ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Yikes by steverino on 2025-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  49 Replies 
Paul S, OMG I had no idea of your health problems. My visits here have been more sporadic lately and I missed prior posts obviously. Thank heavens you are still able to enjoy music. I certainly hope 2025 will get you on the mend. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: I like that by steverino on 2024-12-27 
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Mahler is the first audiophile composer. How true!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Favorite Tchaikovsky symphony by steverino on 2024-12-27 
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This is by far my favorite Tchaikovsky symphony. Interestingly, IMO there are far more outstanding performances of his Pathetique or even the Sym 5 than his Sym 4. His first 3 symphonies are almost always performed even more poorly, so I suppose the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Wagnerism by steverino on 2024-12-27 
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[quote user="dady"]  When we say that Bruckner is better or worse than Mahler, we are making a comparison of two different currents, Mahler is the inexorable continuation of Wagner, it is possible that in another period of my life I would not hav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Max headroom by steverino on 2024-12-22 
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[quote user="Paul S"] Somehow, mention of “Musical Potency” has gotten buried in thread after thread, even those that started with the idea of laying it out for discussion in  Going back to Bruckner (though one might say, Mahler), one simply ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Custom horn speakers by steverino on 2024-10-30 
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About 20 years ago Stereophile had a short article about a custom horn speaker system in the San Francisco area funded by a richie rich audiophile. They showed a picture of his system in a warehouse with humongous bass horn speakers far larger than p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: FM listening by steverino on 2024-10-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Crane Radio CCE2 in Off Air Audio  17 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Steve, if you have the MR-67 I suppose it means you wanted that "FM Sound Quality" with your FM? Is it programming, broadcast quality, reception, or some combination that's the problem, or are you simply happy with streaming thes...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: FM tuner by steverino on 2024-10-10 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] As many readers of my site know that I am a huge supporter of FM.... while I had a reasonably good FM broadcasting my city. It was drastically changed somewhere at 2011 - 2012. My main classical station was given ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Jazz has become serious business by steverino on 2024-10-10 
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[quote user="rowuk"]Germans still define music as "E"-Musik or "U"-Musik. E is for "Ernst" or serious/ernest and U is for "Unterhaltung" or entertainment. Funny enough Jazz falls und "E".[/quote]Although Jazz didn't start out serious there is no ques...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Symphonic boa constrictors by steverino on 2024-09-11 
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Of course in his lifetime people only wanted to hear Bruckner playing the pipe organ and particularly his improvisations!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Thread vs site by steverino on 2024-08-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Richard Wetz and Martin Scherber, composers influenced by Br... in Musical Discussions  19 Replies 
The conversation here was about composers who were influenced by Anton Bruckner's music, so I actually started the conversation in this thread. Your posts had absolutely nothing to do with the thread topic obviously as even you admitted.  There is no...
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