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Jamikl I think I am not the best person to ask. My limited exposure to ports went successful, even though I admit that I did not invest any efforts of knowledge to be successful with ports. I hated them before and my failure with my trying to use po...
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Hi Romy and JJTriode:
I wish I could take credit for all of the very pertinent commentary by Rosalyn Tureck, extracted below but I will not. I do agree with the sentiment though and the reasoning behind her expressed...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The last nigh I tuned the playback and witnessed one of the best sound I had......The leading idea is that something environmentally got changed that affect out perception and make brain to get positive sensation from sound...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Again, I am NOT a collector - at all. I am only in it for the music[/quote]I am not a collector too. I collect some very specific drivers only to take some good parts out of them which are not available anywhere else. I do not c...
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Roman:interesting point of view and alternative to Nimbus' approach. It's my opinion the people at Nimbus wanted to enhance and replicate a better gramophone-like rendition of the classic vocal and instrumental performance of decades ago...In their l...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is possible to throw fantastic imaging presentation by using direct radiator but did you pay attention that many playbacks do not do it? What does it mean? It means that an ability of playback to make imaging interning i...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Scott, is it your specific aim to configure an enclosure to "effectively" lower driver Fs? While this, along with an exponential increase in power, is a proven strategy for generating ULF, it seems like this approach creates more...
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Here is a snippet from an email from Jonathan Carr (Lyra cartridge designer) about objectives and considerations regarding cartridge loading. Most of this is old news, I only re-post it here as a convenient synopsis on this most misunderstood t...
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Wow, what an intresting post, in its own right!But then I wonder, what about the Music?Count me in as a total slut that enjoys any "realistic" element of Sound I can gather as a significant part of a Musical performance.At the same time, count me as ...
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Well, that is a small room, all right. Regardless, a "mid-bass deficiency" alone could literally evicerate big works. I have written up the Kubelik/BPO/Dvorak 9, because I think so highly of that performance. It should absoutely be loaded to the g...
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Stitch, I am not too familiar with the sound of contemporary TT and I am not necessary would discard them juts because they are contemporary. I still have that fantasy about some kind of flimsy, paper-made TT that for whatever reason do sound very go...
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1- Romy, a $200 microscope was shit 30 years ago when I bought mine and is still a piece of shit today. Manufacturing 5-10 SX-8000 type tables a year is inexpensive, its when you go to 50-100 units a year, AF1 market, that cost of operations escalate...
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Funny, I was just having more or less the same conversation earlier today, only in my case it was the straight-descent-to-Hell of Jazz and Classical programming in Southern California.Is there any way to understand these problems?Sure, ther...
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With the electricity being so bad my listening has been limited, and what I've been hearing has shifted my focus somewhat, which is annoying, to be sure, but it is also educational. I have been playing around with plate loading a little and not...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
That is why what I refer to “transport” I refer to the very primary duty – to read an optical disk and the ability to create more advanced sound out of it. As a persons who am familiar with the best optical disk rea...
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I haven't listened to the TU-X1, but I can swear that my TU-919 is a better source than my Bidat or my vinyl rig in terms of creating an atmosphere of music. Here we only have two decent stations, one for classical which from time to time broadc...
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Well, I hope that Romy is the only one who still thinks I'm tube rolling, because this post is even farther afield (although it is almost a spin off from the previous posts about AC/grounding).I finally got around to adding not-terrible po...
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"Vitriolic" is certainly the wrong word to apply to my "attitude"/post(s), Dominic. "Amused" is more like it. I am amused by claims that ANY 4" driver makes a stand-alone "Full-Range" speaker able to "presen...
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Jessie, you can imagine that the output tube was hot at 59 watts. FWIW, I never go a month without checking OP, usually within 2 weeks, and in this case I had checked it less than a week before.The tube itself is the heat source, much hotter th...
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I had my best-to-date listening sessions this year, but still 2008 has been a mixed bag for me. I did get pretty much what I was aiming for, or rather I did on those occasions when the electricity happened to be decent....
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I think the third movement was the best. Mehta really took his time there and dropped the overly fast tempo of the whole work. Some moment were truly nice during that adagio. I did not hate the performance in the way how I hated some other Bruckne...
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Well, bringing up the rear guard, I finally got a copy of the Music and Arts CD transfer of the 1942 concert, and what a performance!!! It might take re-reading for me to sync the liner notes/review with what I heard, which did not need a ...
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This post was prompted by listening to Chopin's Piano Concerto in E Minor, Opus 11, Everest Archive X-923 (stereo, 1965). This whole series of recordings was very carefully made of remarkable Duo-Art reproductions played on the incredible 1929 ...
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Is this another case where one must actually hear and be familiar with the product to comment?Zipping through some of the text, this guy sounds like the typical zealot with a good idea that has swollen up to eclipse his thinking in related areas...
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I did mean the recent recordings but rather the personal “recording of the week”, the personal recent discoveries. BTW, I never heard the Pergolesi Stabat Mater before. I will look the Alessandrini’s one….
Here is one wonderful recent discover...
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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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I chose the EdgarHorns for fairly simple reasons. I have listened to them and I loved the way they sound. They are not the perfect loudspeaker, but they make much truer music than what I have now. Also, the price I paid is less than...
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You do make me laugh sometimes! You really do seem to have problems in seeing the merits in anything if it doesn't fully satisfy the very particular performance criteria you set. As a species such inflexibility wouldn't allow you to evolve very much ...
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Rony, I do not read the Grammaphone. I buy it once in two years, for fun, to confirm that I still should not read it… :-) Yes, switching the conversation to Bohm’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” available on CD….there are number of versions. First of all Bohm rec...
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A few weeks ago Amphissa sent me a collection of recordings of Myaskovsky. I knew Myaskovsky, head his Sixth Symphon, “something else” and his cello concerto but to have a pile of selected CDs by a great aficionado of the Myaskovsky's music really he...
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