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And here I've been thinking that this was one of your fixed tenets all along. It makes perfect sense to me, anyway.Can there be any doubt that "difficult" music is mostly unbearable "reproduced" electronically?My daughter used to love...
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but I sometimes wonder just what sort of collaboration it takes to produce them. It almost seems like good intentions and great (minimalist) engineering must be bolstered with plenty of plain old luck.For one thing, even people who claim t...
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OK, maybe it needs a bit more detail ,or say perspective as regards to this audio-cooking effort. NO QUESTION, we first have to look after the object before we joy-ride, or joye-feast, oh yes! I mentioned quality and caring somewhere just a short...
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What fascinates me is the whole idea of room acoustic being basically invisible to us - despite measuring differently, we don't really notice the effects of room acoustics in the rooms we aren't actively listening in. Your friend's voice in an audito...
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I think that any line level tube stage can be every much of an expressive tool as any other device in the chain. I am also not sure that the biggest difference between digital and analog is the sampling process.How "transparent" is a cutting lathe or...
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Robin, I also hope it's obvious by now to everyone with evolved aesthetics that all the hyperbolic chatter about things is just that. While I do have some old "Direct to Disc" recordings that have decent sound, I have none with performances worth rev...
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Wojtek, this is the whole astonishment of the story. There are no space flying technologies, no 30 years of research and investigation in a secretive lab which specialize on a submarine sonars, there's no capacitors made from unobtainium deelectr...
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Guy,
I do not know. In my past I made an adapter to my Micro motor to play 78s and used contemporary 78 cartridge and 282 arm and off the shelf phonocorector. I would not call this setup as something that was good but it gave me some opportuni...
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Romy's virtual example is a wonderful example of "context", perhaps the only error up to now in this thread.The description of Walters VirtualPhonoStage would be a great article for the website: http://www.I_am_a_deaf_musician_but_so_what.org, but ha...
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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Robert Witrak, the owner of High Definition Tape Transfers (HDTT)
http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
does CD transfers form older analog tapes. The transfers generally better then commercially available CD, and despite of the restricted and in a ...
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STOKOWSKI - Members' Special Sale(through September 30, 2006)
CD-1190(1) STOKOWSKI and KUBELIK conduct: experimental stereo recordings from 1952. JACOB AVSHALOMOV (b. 1919): The Taking of T’ung Kuan (7:53); TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Min...
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So many "parts" to a particular hi-fi system, and not just the gear, and so many reasons why a given system turns out the way it does. Didn't Amir say he doesn't listen to a lot of classical music? I was pretty happy with tubes for quite a while, inc...
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[quote user="fulcrum"]Wow, you guys are a really tough crowd.If I wanted to sell crap to "irrationally superstitious and self-deluded individuals" it would have been the easiest thing in the world to do. So many people looking at what we make, jump t...
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And as one of the other perpetrators...The nature of this kind of thing is compromise. The owner of the bass horn system wanted to run them together, for the enlarged horn mouth, and so we did - there was never going to be enough time to play about ...
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It was unexpected treat last night from BSO with Beethoven 4:
http://classical-scene.com/2012/03/28/kavakos-nails-the-details/
who cold believe that it might be such an interesting piece….The Cat...
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Anybody fortunate enough to be in the UK between 24th-27th January 2019 may be interested in this.
https://www.martinharriscentre.manchester.ac.uk/how-to-book/quatuor-danel-season-ticket/
I saw this quartet perform the complete cycle of Beet...
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...to ask, that is.Yes, the "default" sound of most US made pianos is more "forward" than not. Mason & Hamlin and Chickering can be brilliant, but are usually "loud." Same is generally true for German Steinways. For mellow presentations, the u...
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[quote user="yoshi"] One guy reports the comparison between SHM-CD and CD version of Klieber's Beethoven 5th and says what they did is just to increase the volume level so that it feels like you hear more details, but because of that, the orchestral ...
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They offer 24/88 downloadable and thanks God they do not record the Audiophile Blues or the similar crap. This is a good part. The bad part is that they record at 4X and then outsource the file to vireos industry cretins to “master” them, pushing...
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I did not order the UnipheyeMusic. Tne only recording I was interested was the Beethoven quartet but I did not like how it was recorded. According to the UnipheyeMusic guy the artists were too “famous” to give him a lot of time for recording an...
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OK, Romy, what about Pristine Audio? Their site looks like the usual "artificial modesty" advertising, the engineer with the "musical background" and all the fawning "support"...
Anyway, I sure like my Music and Arts Beethoven 9 CD (Furtwangler, 1...
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I am a self retired Painter also in my 40s, It is hard to try to live from art in a developing country and to do it with some dignity, but I did had some limited success.The road in the art world IMO is really not about contacts and galleries and s...
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Wow, the Definitive Audio is half hours away from London, this is good news. I did look at Google and it said 2.45 Hours but I might look some at something different. We probable will be staging near Royal Abler Hall, which is center city. We are ver...
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As anybody else’s my listening habits are subjects of infatuations. Sometimes I develop some unhealthy interest to some music and being a compulsive Cat I begin to suck it in at full throttle. My last infatuation was the Beethoven last movement o...
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Hm, I never knew that this set exists. The well-celebrated Leibowitz session with Royal Philharmonic was recorded in spring 1961. It was truly nice cycle and the Reader Digest subscription, as most they press, was a perfect environment for this box s...
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Well, my experience indicates that if in the installation of this topology people chose to use 4th order crossovers then they play crappy pop music on their audio. To play pop music within playback and to have pop interests in music is certainly not ...
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Did I tell you that Pacific Microsonics DAC is a phenomenal 16-bit DAC? I did not lie and it is very good. Look however what the updated Lavry 924++ did with it.
They are very short and small (6Meg) files, mono, 88/24 with a few seconds of opening o...
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Firstly, no form of criticism was implied, why at all? Bartók just seems to give you some form of 'empty notion' perhaps, as does Brahms with me. I discussed this subject earlier today with my audio friend who would share your take on Bartók but does...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Re: Masur Shosty 5th ...You’re just about losing your virginity, Dorothy. As many debates musical people have about the tempos and style of playing the “Allegro non troppo” of the Fifth the recording I sent you answers ...
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