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This weekend I will eventually setup the playback back to the operational state. It has been for 2 weeks and I am not playing my Bruckner on the big system and I kind of missing it. I am still not at ease with the new speaker positioning. Amy wants t...
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Romy, crazy musicians try all sorts of things out. In my case, I can even quote some firsthand experience. My antics with the trumpet and tuba simply add to my experiences.I have the huge luxury of having played Bruckner on vintage low "F trumpets", ...
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Juts to give an idea of what is going o… Here is a fragment from today’s glorious performance of BSO… The fragment has slightly less brilliance and slightly more noise than the ordinal file and it was resaved in 32 bit WAV format (originally recorded...
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Today I was sitting with my “signature compassionate corporate face” in the office of my client with my headphones on. A coworker come me and asked what I am listening. I asked him if he knows classical music, he said that he does not. I reached to ...
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I have in my basement a room that I do not use and I am in process of building Finnish cedar sauna in there. The pre-sauna room will have a fireplace, shower, rest facility and the rest ordinary sauna suspects. While I am constructing the frame and w...
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[quote user="mats"] The Brahms is indeed a lovely 24/88 remaster. I also ordered and received the Wand Bruckner 1-9 box from the new Sony series, and there is no mastering information on the package as far as I can tell. Does anyone know if the...
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My contra-SACD position is well known but unfortunately as I predicted mode and more SACD recording are being realized and they have already vandalized by SACD format. It look like no one record nowadays on PCM if companies even want to release 2...
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Of the ones I know, your list is excellent. Not that hot on the Rosbaud and Klemperer, actually. I can only add the van Beinum. Wish I knew the von Matacic. Regarding Toscani, I auditioned this a few years ago at the Museum of Broadcasting (Hollywood...
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It is 184 years…. Here is a funny renderation of Happy Birthday tune in Bruckner estimable style. The file is courtesy to John Berky of www.abruckner.comhttp://www.abruckner.com/Data/editorsnote/happybirthday/birthday_bruckner.mp3
Rsg, the caT...
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I have seen in past my site made some waves in some kind of Slovenia audio forums. I know also that even today there were visitors from Bohinj Ljubljana…. So, the Slovenia folks, could you help me to find your local shop where I can buy the Bruckner ...
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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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I sometimes listen to a little DX radio with crappy headphones, but not much of the "difficult" modern music gets aired around here. I may have some Schoenberg LPs that I never listen to, really can't talk about. What I often hear is along the lines ...
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Poking around for options to acquire downloads of the Bruckner symphonies, including the performances briefly streamed free in April, I came across the following options on HDTracks.com. In no particular order we have, covering at least B4 through B9...
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One of many wonderful features of my hopefully coming listening room is it’s perfect integration with kitchen. I am not so good cook but I like cooking. Mostly what I cook is turn out to be crap but I do know how to eat and I very much like to celebr...
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Wow, thanks, Robin! You have made quite clear and intersesting for me what is obviously clear and interesting for you.When thinking of expression via the trumpet, I recall Miles Davis, also Dizzy Gillespe, whose (almost unbelievable) highest highs se...
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[quote user="noviygera"]… but do not mount those woofers behind your listening position. I tried that and it's tonally good but it's confusing as hell to the brain even if crossed over 80-100hz, still confusing. Put them in front or on sides, where t...
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It looks like there are several iterations of this particular performance floating around, and I do not know about the "others". Since this site won't load my photos, here is a link to the version I am telling about (I believe this 8th was performed/...
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With the proms one has to simply select judiciously, something of which you're more than capable. It is billed as a celebration of popular classics, but within the tourist stuff can be found gems. In Edinburgh they take greater advantage of the wonde...
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[quote user="skushino"]… when I opened up the volume, the piano clearly resonates with the playback. [/quote]It is exactly what I worry. When I play my Bruckner I use high volume and it pressurizes my room very high. So, I think it might pick some ex...
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Ok, we have booked the tip. We are leaving US in 27 August for London and return on September 11 from Edinburgh. Probably we stay in London up to 6 September, the day of the final Bruckner 8 concert with Vienna Philharmonic, exploring the city and th...
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James Hillman talks about experiences of beauty that touch us in a way that can be recognized by all.Heidegger spoke of objects "shining forth", almost always as a surprise, when not perceived by us as tools, or resources.The greeks spoke of "the sm...
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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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Our England and Welsh gallop of hunting for castles and cathedrals is over total with visiting the Canterbury Cathedral and returning back to London for Bruckner 4. To my surprise among the all spectacles that I saw the Snowdonia Natinal Park impress...
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Yes, I got the Tintner’s Bruckner, thanks. About the cymbal crash. Can't live with it, can't live without it – it is exactly what it is. With the crash it is wonderful but a bit too cheesy and even tacky. Without the crash it is too anticlimaxick and...
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Hi Romy and other Nanut thread followers!Yes, the Mahler 6 is wonderful, I agree.Nanut's Beethoven 7th symphony is the best I have ever heard.His Bruckner 8th is the best I have ever heard - and I have nearly 40 recordings of the 8th on my CD sh...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner…...
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Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...
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Thank you for illustrating problems with the "approach". Now that your response has become part of the dialog, I remain hopeful to get some ideas for a "simple" phono stage that might not choke up on Bruckner or Wagner with battery power, and I do t...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56_x_tGzrA
At about 2:50 into the video, Gould explains how his playing differs between his living room and a concert hall. "...the moment that I step into such an ...
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I am the person who visited last month, heard some Vivaldi and other things and "did not get" Bruckner. I am not the Clark's person.And no, you don't owe me anything, except to keep doing this site and allowing occasional visits. Well, if you REALL...
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