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I never hear Ophelie Gaillard but am always am open for new takes on Bach. If you would like to try something different then you might try what I have been listening for the last few months – viola rendition of the suites. Viola is kind of shadowy in...
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It's been too long since I last heard this. Today, with different amps, I heard it a little differently, with Kubelik "working it" a little harder, using his first chairs to put lovely, "subtle" shadings on Fournier's decisive phrases, with phenomen...
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Just wanted to add my enthusiasm for Lillian Fuchs' transcription and performance of the Bach Cello Suites! Even via CD, the viola is rendered well enough by my system, and Fuchs' playing, including her tempo, is sublime. The lines are well articu...
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...and I very much enjoyed the performance too. I don't know if Yo-Yo was physically in WGBH's facility but the announcer said WGBH "produced" or something like that, so I assumed they played some role in making it all work (thought I picked up the s...
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Han-Na Chang won the Rostropovich Cello Competition at age 11 in 1997. Her debut CD was Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saens in 1995 under the baton of Rostropovich. She lived near me, north of NY City. She earned the post of Associate Principal of New York P...
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Yes... Jacqueline Du Prè really "is" Elgar's Op. 85 Cello Concert... just listened to "Allegro Molto" and now enjoying "Adagio"... she's just right, raw and passionate and free and easy.I was thinking few minutes ago: isn't something so... so... GREA...
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Tears theory: interesting... BUT, most important, and this REALLY find me fully agreeing, you named my very "King of the Orchestra": Its Majesty the Double-Bass!I own about eighty records of double-bass music: orchestra, solo, solo & piano, conte...
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The best-sounding drivers I've heard will amplify a wide range of sounds from scratching or tapping differently at different points on the cone, or even from tapping or rubbing the driver frame. And never mind OB, some throw amazing tonal range and ...
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I guess if a musical performance was conceived to be listened from a seat in a room, close-micing makes as much sense as looking at a painting from the paintbrush's point of view...
I have just arrived home from an evening with Lawrence Foster and...
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I have tried both simple, "FR" drivers and multi-ways, and I think you are on to something with the "simpler presentation". As a generic example, think of the "cult" "FR" drivers driven by cult SETs, playing cello music. I have gotten goosebumps from...
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[quote user="Lbjefferies7"]Interesting.When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I wa...
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Try as I might, I can't get my sme3012/shelter 901 combo to do tubas . My ortofon309/vintage mono cartridge does it magnificently the tuba down low makes me goosevumps all over just likenthe cello. I think my stepup for shelter is incorrect choice, t...
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Wow, what a concert! Incontestably the very best live broadcast in 2008-09 seasons and the most impressive Götterdämmerung I heard, at least orchestral play. Did you pay attention how Levine cooked up the pressure and how smart he built up drama? So,...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, what I am talking about is ability for an amp to have some kind of inner-algorithm that dynamically and actively “color” or better to say “dye” signals, still maintaining general color-neutral tendencies. Since I ...
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Let's make it more challenging: how many recordings of Beethoven's/Brahm's/Bruckner's/.../Schumann's/etc. 3rd, how many interpretations of that piano/violin/cello concerto does one really need?Or do you draw the line at audio gear?For the past 3 deca...
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I am using them with 200 w/channel SS amp in very large sealed cabinets. The room they are in is quite large and the honey bass has been less of a problem than the MF tone. When I play my bartoli baroque CD (live in italy), dynamics...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Very simple... The WAF has had enough of the horns... She's met a new guy and is throwing me and a few tons of plaster out of the house! Worst of all, she has custody of the cats!
This will delay the project, as I have t...
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Working with (not against) material resonance would be an interesting alternative way but I would predict a long and strenuous path... Imagine yourself having to tune not (only) the strings of a cello but the instrument itself. :-D
I once owned a ...
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I was listrening to Hoenniger/Bach Suites yesterday and I don't know which exact instrument he plays for these 1973 German Telefunken recordings (stereo LPs), but that damn cello of his was just ripping the room to shreds, with its bass notes as powe...
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... and incomprehensible. Also, there seemed to be a lot of theory about amplifiers.I listened to the upper/main part of this speaker. There is a woofer of sorts also --but it strangely wasn't connected.The thing looks quite industrial & if ...
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Romy I think for many people it's not even possible to reach a level of musical spiritual force. I've talked to Dr. Edgar at length about this, he and I believe that to have this feeling about music, one needs ...
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If you know how in some optical systems imagery get destroyed when an aperture getting closed to F64 or even smaller, then you understand what happens in compression driver when frequency get higher and spaces smaller. Yes, the proximity of wavelengt...
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Hey Cat...long time no claw,Wrong? My dog, if I can list my musical machine mistakes...The original boxes I got with my 10" and 15" reds were respectively the little IIILZ sealed and big ported boxes. The IIILZ box with the little reds wa...
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Decoud,
There is nothing wrong in what those guys propose and there is nothing wrong in in-wall to mount drivers in infinite baffle configuration. In fact it very much interesting idea to build a custom room with a strange shape where wall most favo...
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...However, "a 2000 RPM meat slicer chopping the music up into little pieces" is, admittedly, more eloquent!Some time ago, I played around with a Kharma model (the big one that has woofers and the 3-in-one tweet**) at a friend's house. The furni...
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Rony, as I underrated from California to France you would not find a direct fly and it would be a landing some in East Cost. Would it be a different time then I would invite you to lend in Boston and spend some time with me. Unfortunately for aud...
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I brought home another "top-rating" tuner with better front-end and trying to see if the TU-X1 hold the ground. The competition was groundless – Sansui destroyed the contestant, I will talk about it more in future.
Minwhile it was a broadcast today ...
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After my recent vinyl re-inspiration I did today something that I did not do for over two year – I went for vinyl shopping. It is not that I was walking by my local vinyl shops and stopped by for a glance or two -I do it occasionally – but rather...
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Adrian, I have not heard this specific cartridge, but the "alive" thing Levi went on and on about certainly rang a Decca bell for me; also the "tweak-y" parts. I do think Levi might have made more of the cable-as-load angle as opposed to painting th...
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I admit that I am facinated with this cartridge, based on the undying hope that one day the unique and addictive (and ultimately, necessary...) "aliveness" might be had without the sort of mind-twisting torture that always prevailed. But this "revie...
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