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Yep, Rowuk, I did come to the similar observations and I did implement the “shit playback for that stuff.” I however did not have any residual damage and it never takes for me a week to recover. I however do not feel any “guilt” wh...
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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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Jeremy, another few lead that I think might conceder.
Manly Labs has their 20-bit digital to analogue converter that uses the Pacific Microsonics processor inside. I was told that is available as the “street price” for ~$6K-$7K and it might be a “f...
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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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About horn body resonance: I used to doubt the need for mass in horns; after all, how much energy can a flimsy paper cone generate? Still, I went ahead and followed the advice of others when building mine, making them very strong and heavy. With ...
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This time the "design mode", while I am working with my new 6 channels Super Milq, is kind of different. I do think about the new amp alot and about the new opportunities that it will give to me, I am slowly work on it but I for whatever reasons do n...
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Hi Anthony Agree, waste is waste. The bigger the better. If you care bout sound too, i recommend the RG213 radio cable. Its perfect for that purpose. First, its coaxial which eliminates the inductance. Second its very hard so that during vibration th...
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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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That mercury-bath turntable is pretty crazy! I guess people always find a way to screw up any endevour that started out with a simple and promising idea. Take Buddhism; the original ideas were very reasonable and practical - be hygenic, be nice, try ...
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I see that apple has added a FM tuner to its new iPod nano
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/features/fm-radio.htmlI would bet that the tuner is medicore, but it has the potential to boost FM listenership considerably given the massive market penetratio...
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Come on, Clark, I know what I am doing and The BNI’s Lee is predictable like winter snow. The sideswipes at BMI were very much not gratuitous. The frivolous writing about serious music is BMI credo and it is very much not an accident that I associate...
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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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At dinner tonight, we had internet radio playing and a J.S. Bach Motet "Komm, Jesu komm" BWV229 came on. I stopped eating (my wife was not happy, fortunately this does not happen often). The reading was so complete, expressive, clean. Even although t...
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I don't suppose I get this, either.Why would you ever on the conceptual level opt to NOT have "Full Range" and a "flat frequency response" that covers the whole audible spectrum?Sure, this is easier said (or thought of) than done, it's "complicated",...
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Just this morning Boston's classical music station WGBH just featured The Red Violin Concerto by John Corigliano. Joshua Bell performing with the Boston Symphony. A wonderfully colorful and dynamic presentation. Since being introduced to the g...
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While I cannot recollect for certain how the conductors I name take the third movement, I do tend to agree with The Cat here about how it should go. Therefore these recordings may well adhere to that desideratum.The greatest: Walter, NBC SO, 1939. Si...
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Oh, no, I’m absolutely not going to go to this route. I absolutely certainly do not want to have any vacuum tubes in there, not kneeboard and mouse, no recording options, not switching or commutating, it need to have one single button to tune of and...
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Hm, I was not kind of informed that Bluetooth in fact implies a digital compression. I was looking for some "High End" Bluetooth transmitter/receiver combos but they shall be all crap if digital compression takes place during Bluetooth transmissio...
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Here is a guide for how to do it (mostly with success). 1. Acquire a UK IP address. 2. install "get_iplayer". 3. Find the PID for the BBC iplayer recording of interest by navigating to it within iplayer and reading off the alphanumeric code in the ur...
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...exhibitors often do not have the time to spare to try a new device that may or may not improve their performance. In fact their systems rarely perform well even up to their lax standards, on the first day.That said, I well recall the years when Ba...
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with using a rubbish system and the like some dilly music-maker pretend it's in my head and fine.I want to feel the venue where things are happening in, it means scale, depth, RIGHT tone, timing, AND as much as possible harmonic completeness. The...
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[quote user="The Cat"]Nope, I had it floated and grounded and practically have seen no difference[/quote]Yes, I would suspect this in most installations. I guess my concern is for the rare and unusual. A floating speaker might be able to ...
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Here is a good opportunity trying to debug a playback system. A site’s visitor sent email asking what is wrong with his playback if: “The reedinest or wooden sound of the clarinet is missing. The edge and bite to brass instruments that give drama ...
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but for the sound it could well be: http://www.rozhlas.cz/d-dur/download_eng It's a performance by the Czec Radio on period instruments. It can be downloaded in Flac format and then converted to wav to burn a CD or whatever. I've just listened to it ...
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What an amusing little peace! I had it for a while along with the rest of my Munch recordings but I never paid attention to this César Franck’s work until recently heard it on radio. It is 1962 recording and Boston lead by Charles Munch. It was 3 yea...
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I agree, with you both..I have a soft spot for Bartok, especially piano concertos, and piano+percussion.Sibelius might feel more significant, but the works I really know and like are from the 19th century.I have still heard very little by Richard Str...
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Hi Romy,You wrote: Also, I remember that in 1998 or something like this when the first Sony SACD machines were only about to heat the market I was given a demo of SACD played directly form the original hard-drive and recorded via the original ...
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Last week a friend of my visited me and we spinning some great records were talking about records collecting. He asked me what is my favorite Records Series. Thinking for a while I told him that it was a Series of record by "International Festi...
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Tonight I listened in my truck to the "local" classical station playing a Mozart piano concerto I did not recognize ibefore I lost it. As I got closer to home, there was the familiar ghosting and then adjacent station override. The reason...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I try every few years to home in on "leads" to Strauss's "men's chorale" works. I've heard only 2 examples, both while driving, and both times the usual "random selection" with "random explication" from "dee-jays" who hold forth ...
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