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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...
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There are few evil things within the mechanism of High-End pricing. I will start form the beginning of my list:
1) Disassociation of manufacturers from consumers
The High-End audio manufacturers do not target their efforts to provide “service”...
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Romy, Pro-Ject and Music Hall equipment is actually manufactured in former Chechoslovakia....
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This subject of prices in High-End Audio is obviously endless. We can complain for years blaming the $80.000 for a pair of amplifiers, $42.000 for DACs, $29.000 for phonocorrector, 125.000 for pair of loudspeakers, $17.000 for CD transpor...
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I concur with these sentiments.clark...
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Observations and Thoughts from theRocky Mountain Audio FestBy Earl Geddes
First I want to thanks all of the kind people who came by the GedLee room. I hope that we both learned something from these meetings.
The Fest this year had about twice as ma...
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It's dead. Nobody cares about sound anymore. Esp. not about passive listening. The few music lovers left there, are usually immune to their systems, and lack the knowledge to build their own. Most high end audio is a fraud anyway. I agree with Earl c...
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The good thing of having own dairy-oriented site is that I can look at what I was positing during the year and to have good grip of what was going on over the passed year. Still, although everything is on the surface, I would like to bring up few bri...
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Among all my mocking and humiliating the people who do audio professionally (well very few of them do it professionally, mostly they do it “for leaving”) I have to admit that there is one subject that made me to envy to some of the guys who do audio ...
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Romy writes:[quote]In Vegas I have seen 25% of the systems run with inverted channels.[/quote] More like 50%, Romy.[quote]I do not value accidents very high.[/quote]We have a word in English: Serendipity. And it is good.clark...
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Richard Hardesty’s Audio Perfectionist Journal was something that was promising: it had no advertising or agenda and was solely based on the view one individual person. Agree or degree I with Richard’s view but it was his view and I do love high-atti...
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It is not secret that I am not a big admirer of what is called the audiophiles community. I feel incredibly bored among them and they feel frequently incredibly insulted around me. Thanks God!!!
I do not value the audiophiles masses, have little res...
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I kind of feel that I am way off in my familiarity about what is going on with new audio products. My horizon is very restricted with my own needs and with my own interests. I am irregularly read audio publications and irregularly visit some audio si...
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A year or two ago I was wondering if any news server for audio news is available. I put some code together and wrote a VERY simple service that collects Classical Music News
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/ClassicalNews.aspx (With top news ...
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Here is a new Horn company Haniwa Cybernetic Audio System. As anyone else they present something “new”, “revolutionary”, “first in the world” and “no where else available”. I never have seen or heard them, though they are local in Massachusetts and p...
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http://www.lenardaudio.com/main/051_opal_const.htmlregardshorny...
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Thanks for the wise advice Romy. I'm curious to know if you have ever recorded those broadcasted live events. I guess you've done for sure but I'd like to know if you've found open reel, cassette, CD-R or any other recording method most suitable...
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While you cannot overcome the limitations of 44.1kHz, 16bit PCM audio
format by ripping from CD to .WAV, you can still find some benefit. For
one example, dirty or scratched (cat-chewed?) CDs can often be
recovered with error correction algorithms...
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Hi,I'm thinking to put up a PC to just play audio files (I'm not interesting in any kind of recording).From the previous discussions it seems that a good digital interface can be Lynx AES 16.My first question is about quality. Considering...
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Romy,You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software?Thats interesting!!! It means that it is better to read once in a 'good' way than ten times to read garbage and average it.So, all th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Leaving aside the preju...
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It has been changed. Looking at the extend of my record collection, the efforts I went with my TT setup and my “End of the Life Phonostage” it would be hardly expected from me to be somebody else a die-hard vinyl dude but it is what it is. Those feel...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]Maybe someone read this http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/05/we-437-based-phono-stage-solid-rock-did.html, worth reconsidering its design - also (partially) using WE 437A - after the last posts discussion at Roman's.....
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Yes, I know now you feel. I visited Japans twice. Although audio was not my main objective but I spent some time for audio. Even I was at that time less critical and less demanding then I would be today still I was not pleased what I heard. Also...
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http://www.oceanwayaudio.com/
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A Greek company Arcadian Audio come up with own new horn-loaded loudspeaker.
http://www.arcadianaudio.com/description_style.html
... with Lowther-like single driver. I truly hate those tipe of speakers.
Anyhow, the Arcadian Au...
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Well, they got John Curl's name on it, and it's "machined from a billit", 2-chasses, yadda, yadda. It also features the "new wave" balanced/presumed- differential topology and a "mystery"/proprietary (presumed discrete) first stage. Likely, it will...
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See link below for some marketing hype relating to the audio potential for graphene. Somewhat interesting title given the mediocre performance of modern (all) headphones. But new technologies always hold some future hope:
http://www.technologyrevie...
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[quote user="drdna"] dkarmeli wrote:I have an AF1. I understand your justified bias regarding reviews, but this is one of those rare cases where the reviewer does know what he's talking about.David, I hope you understand Paul's recalcitrance. We've a...
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