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In her autobiography Galina Vishnevskay (the Rostropovich’s wife) wrote (translation is mine):
“In Moscow we spent only three weeks, and then by plane we returned to London to participate in the Festival of Soviet Art, just before 21 A...
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This material is courtesy to Mr. Shibazaki, the owner of Sibatech Shop in Tokyo, that sell internationally Japanise Hi-Fi equipment.
http://www.sibatech.co.jp/
I hope that Sibatech people are more decent then our american distrib...
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There was a good article about this very subject in 2004. You have to pay to use the NYT's archives, but one of Michael Green's disciples quoted it on their website, and they didn't get sued for copyright, so I guess it is OK to post it here:
If ...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]I'm curious about how you set up your horns in the room.From photos it looks as if they are fairly close together, compared to the wide setting you suggested I try, while our room dimensions are fairly similar?When I started push...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I did an interesting experiment. I took the bass towers,
just 4 driver per side, crossed them at 90Hz, line-level and drove them not
with the Milq’s bass channel but with SS Yamaha B2. I use it with the tube cr...
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[quote
user="decoud"] It may well be that PP's equipment is touched by god,
but seems foolish to come to that conclusion without ever having heard the same
fundamental design done by anyone else. [/quote]
Decoud, for sure it is a
valid point and...
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I have to admit that I am not a huge fun of the Chibas’ Bruckner. Well, he might be OK but am very much do NOT like how the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela sounds. All the exuberant reviews about the recordings are juts a pile of reviewing crap. There a...
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Any Google hits this site gets from my post is a gift from me to The Home of the Cat. Can't imagine anybody searching "Silbatone & Penderecki"..a rather odd combination of terms stemming out of a unique event.
Or how about "Silbatone &...
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This is an interesting topic and a sensitive matter. For me it goes in a different direction than most audiophile discussions of sound quality and how it related to the audio hobby. The ridiculousness of the high end audio hobby becomes evident w...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Romy the Cat wrote:
Please, please, please, the Brit...
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1) GND NOISE
After more experiments, I can proclaim a victory over the 100Hz noise on my End of life phono. For whatever reason the GND connection does not want to run in a close physical proximity of the line and n...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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If you followed, a few days ago in the conversation with “Michaelz” I was spinning my usual plot, bitching that most of the today’s pianists play, unintelligent as senseless, almost like with the "rubber fingers”:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/...
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same procedure as every year...
When we did a visit at Munich we are no negative audiophiles, we are curious and just wanted to know what is going on.
Based on recession 30% less Exhibitors were there, from about 360 in 2008...
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A few years ago a friend of mine, an audio manufacturer in Europe, in response to my Macondo Mini-Me project told me that my Macondo Mini-Me speakers were crap but the name I come up with for my Pilot acoustic system was ingenious. Well, he was n...
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Recently I was traveling and
spoke with an audio guy. He advised that I need to stop by to listen his
playback. I ask why he thinks his playback is worthy to listen. He gave me a
long list of expensive and industry-reputed component that forme...
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[quote user="Amir"] i think the audio industry
destroyed audio.[/quote]
Amir, yes it is very much true but not in the context you
think it is true. The main force of audio industry distraction of audio was not
introduction of bad equipment or fau...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Still, I did not mention the most important thing about my new midbass horn. This most important and the most astonishing new characteristic of Sound I did not pursue and I got it purely accidently. I did not talk ab...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] I feel I am being objective when I say that a Mirrophonic system simply blows away Altec, Vitavox, TAD, etc. [/quote]
Joe, I am not a reader of your magazine and the phrase like “blows away” impress me very little. P...
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A few years ago a Russian guy, Murat form Moscow, popped at this forum
with his ideas to build multichannel horn installation, that in his words would
be the “best in the world”.
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&...
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[quote user="anthony"] 25 turn
pot in the filament supply. For the life of me I can't source a 25 turn
pot. The 10 turn Bourns 3590 is the closest I can find. Do I need
to keep looking for a more sensitive pot or do you think 10 turn is managea...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]The load lines are horrible. I can't imagine it gives a very accurate representation of what is fed into it. Maybe that's not what you are after.[/quote]It is not that I completely agree (or completely understand) the Eduar...
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Like in anything else with B8 in your life there is a little
story with last night concert. Here is a letter Amy sent to Zander 2 days
before the performance.****************************************************************
Dear Ben,
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A local audio friend sent me a few days back a feedback
after visiting my new listening room:
“When we used to listen to music at your Woburn house I
could come home and still enjoy my playback. But listening to playback at the
Boxwood house ...
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Here is the list of the thing to do with Vitavox S2 in order to use it in 4-ways installations. The S2 must not be used in 2, 3 ways systems. It possible to do with S2 whatever you wish but pretty much any other way to utilize them produces some very...
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[quote user="anthony"]I woke up this
morning ….[/quote]
It was funny that you named it “In my dreams”. Whan I was “designing”
and building the Milq I had a lot of dreams about the problem I had. I am not
am amplifier designer or some kind of DIY ...
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...especially about the difficulty of making a transparent preamp. It seems to be a general concensus.
But I need gain for most of my sources apart from perhaps the FM ...
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[quote
user="rowuk"]There are so many things that pop into mind when reading
this thread - the "expectations" of a visitor, Roman knowing before
the guest is even there what the outcome will be and then for both sides
"proof".
Yes, anyone who ev...
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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