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Last Saturday BSO under Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki played a new work - Unsuk Chin’s cello concerto, Alban Gerhardt played the lead. I do not know, folks. If this is the direction where “music went” then let call it a successful concerto. Howev...
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unicon wrote: el 0l if you could understand the basics about how audio waves especially bass range acts in closed space you wouldnt even bring the name Bass EQit just cures the sound pressure in a single spot(listener)...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]...my light woofers would not be the optimum solution and I might need to use 18”-24” woofers.[/quote]Hello Romy!At least for corner horns I think I can say that lightweight drivers are the better solution. HBM's corner hor...
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Ok, I got it yesterday and I really do not like it. I do not know where to start - it is so much off what where Rachmaninoff left it – it just a very different amplitude of talent. With Rachmaninoff each note has beauty, balance, reference to the who...
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I was moving today my speakers back and forth and fine that the 14.5 foot is the most suitable distance between the speakers for my room. To get more precise positioning I would need to get better sound, so I will take my PP2000 back and will drive e...
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msaudio, again, moving the speakers across the room of cause changes the “floor support” but there are way too different influences to sound while speakers moves then the floor’s influence. In fact at this point I absolutely discard floor contributio...
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It is unthinkable how mach of great music the Columbia sound engineers had vandalized. The Boulez’s “Verklarte Nacht” with NY Philharmonic turned out to be a good pay but what the sick sound! I bought 3 records and one of them a new, sealed. All of t...
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Last year I am in obsessive and compulsive quest for most interesting Third Movement of the Mahler first symphony. I happen with me from time to time. I love that French funeral march into which Mahler stick so much twist but I am under a neurotic f...
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While I cannot recollect for certain how the conductors I name take the third movement, I do tend to agree with The Cat here about how it should go. Therefore these recordings may well adhere to that desideratum.The greatest: Walter, NBC SO, 1939. Si...
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I had today so much fan that I did not expected. The Gergiev’s Prokofiev with London Symphony turned out to be a truly devilish ride - a phenomenal performance. Mind you that not everything perfect and Gergiev play his own anti-romantic, hard-code, a...
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I think we have definition of purist recordings. Deutsche Gramophone is a huge company and the recorded zillions of events. At time they were better or worse, at time they recorded brilliantly and at time they recordings vandalized the performances. ...
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[quote user="Amphissa"] So, I do not think Pletnev will go to jail.….This means we will continue to have lots of very bad music from Mr. Pletnev for many years to come.[/quote] David, you will not believe how hard I was laughing about it. In fact the...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"].[/quote]What do you know, today is December, that makes me to use the APS Purepower 2000 for one year. I would like to share some observations about the experiences.Since I posted my comments last year a few folks I know b...
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Here is a good opportunity trying to debug a playback system. A site’s visitor sent email asking what is wrong with his playback if: “The reedinest or wooden sound of the clarinet is missing. The edge and bite to brass instruments that give drama ...
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Thanks, Ric. I do not know what they do with power generation but I guess in the end they will have some kind of inverter that would convert their low voltage DC making Energy Servers posses into AC. In the light of my forthcoming move I deal nowaday...
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nautilus981, I do not care too much about passive attenuators or about anybody comments on them. I do not use them and I advocate do not use them. I do not have plans to publics Zarathustra circuits. It is Dima’s circuits and I will live it up to him...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]First of all I feel that PP2000 is slightly “released” some HF.[/quote] The reported “softness” of PP2000 came with some HF roll off. I drive my MF amps much harder while I use PP2000 and it was a good help but still there ...
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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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Got last night the last bass drivers for MiniMe’s bass sections and put them all together. Even thought I still have problems with MiniMe uppers channels (the Fostex F120A drivers are still hatching) but the bass sections turned out to be very good. ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]My own PP2000 does have a very-very-very minor difference between lines and butteries operation and… I like the sound from lines better.[/quote]Yes, I recall your initial observations were so.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, now it is officially: I permanently removed a tweeter from Macondo. [/quote]After a few days of playing my Macondo without tweeter I begun to think what is goingon. The S2 eventually works clean and without any hars...
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With all bogus visual equivalents that the industry's audio writers invented in sound reproduction the industry-wide confusing between Imaging and Soundstaging I find is the most repulsive. If Soundstage, as I mention many times at my site, is a most...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This is very complex and superbly important concept and with this I have pissed a lot of people in audio. So, while you participate in evaluation of an audio element DO NOT recognized the sonic benefits of this element in i...
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[quote user="dazzdax"]Romy, are you sure the unborn fetus is exposed to sounds in the 200-400 Hz range? I think it's more of 30-200 Hz (conducted sounds of mother's heartbeat and footsteps). I think babies are also sensitive to these range of sound: ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]So, what is the solution for a mono system? Also, I remmember that your mono experiments with field coild S2 produced honk .Should you use stereo drivers to get better results [/quote]Use stereo system to play mono, a properly ma...
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[quote user="Doron"] I am beginning to somewhat agree with this statement as I am always amazed how selective an audio system gets as it becomes a high-resolution one. Rock and pop never sounds good anymore (because the system just tells it like it i...
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[quote user="drdna"] The VERY INTERESTING idea is that the introduction of noise as a dithering element for the analog signal (for our brain to decode) can be helpful in increasing the retrieval of information vital to conveying the Sound. [/quote] T...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I was not wild with original San Audio Kit sound, I did not like when I redid is with better parts and I frankly not a hugely enthusiastic about the sounds of San Audio Kit with 6E5P driver.[/quote]After thinking about this...
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I bought the Lundahl chokes for L1 and was not able to us them and they were insultingly sharp. For the L1 you would need more henries and more DCR, the higher DCR will sound better and the “bad” and “cheap” Hammond chokes worked very fine. You...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I always was “concerned” about those large high voltage triodes: 211, 845, GM70…. They kind of different… The 845 always was brutal and not elegant, 210 was elegant but not sophisticated, and the GM70 was sophisticate...
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