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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It played well, though I question if it makes sense to use that caliber music for audio evaluations. [/quote]
Let just for sake of illustration to presume that any expressed opinion (a review) about audio element/component...
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[quote user="slowmotion"]Alltough I understand both the scepticism against both the so-called DIY-movement and the audio industry (the industry is a many headed monster, tho - without the industry I/we wouldn't be here ) , I strongly agree with Guy's...
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The good thing of having own dairy-oriented site is that I can look at what I was positing during the year and to have good grip of what was going on over the passed year. Still, although everything is on the surface, I would like to bring up few bri...
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What I was trying to lead to is the idea that High-End Audio is not class audio equipment but rather class human efforts. The morons who run for industry do not get it and if they even do than they can’t sell it. High-End Audio might demand special c...
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I pitch for many times an idea that most of audio people never experienced any truly great level of high-end audio reproduction that might be a reference for their hi-fi objectives. Experiences from audio installations and live sound are different an...
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...
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There was a guy as one musical forum. His name is William Sommerwerck and for all intended purpose he is an idiot. He was posting more or less lucid comments about music but he also fancied himself as some kind of expert on audio. He insisted th...
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"The Shepherded” are the representatives of audio herd, among those, whom the audio industry “affected” the most.
The Shepherded audio person usually has reasonably well paid job and from reasonably to highly educated. He has some extra money and e...
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I wonder why audio people do not WORK with their playbacks. This subject always annoyed me. Let pretend an audio person build up some kind of playback installation. It is irrelevant what would it be: a huge vintage Bell Labs system, a contempora...
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I do not know that they say about “size” and “ways to use it” but in audio “ways to use” unquestionably rules. It is funny how Audio people create cult of abstract “better” audio components of element but completely discard any sensibility to use tho...
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Recently there was probably nothing as low in audio as the BS surrounded Kharma loudspeakers. Each single step Kharma takes is further and further in-depth Kharma into the realm of bogusness. It is not that I find that “Kharma the Manufacturer” or “K...
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Today’s prices in Hi-Fi do not base upon any other principle then “whatever market bears”. The luck of objective evaluation methods and the completely un-liberated market of Hi-Fi consumers make the “market bearing” principles being completely not ap...
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[quote user="drdna"] Yes, we are saying the same thing. The problem as I have found it is that transparency is easily recognized and so there is a tendency for audiophiles to focus on this when they try to improve their systems, and this can ma...
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I do not think audio has anything do so with 'Happiness' or even might be related to happiness. Audio is very self-contained field of very specific applications. It is completely up the person in which format the person will be using audio methods or...
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I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio. If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...
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now i am trying to setup my mac music server.useful information :http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/dp777_tech-papers_cmpDataBit4dummies.htmlhttp://designwsound.com/dwsblog/hifi-computer-faq/http://www.amr-audio.co.uk/html/dp777_tech-papers_OSX-Integerm...
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Last 2-3 weeks I’ve been corresponding with a new reader of my site who sent me a few weeks back an email with a question:
“Romy, I read your comments about TTH and about “absolute tone”. Are you basically taking about timbres?”
That question made ...
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As many manufactures I know who is close enough with me to talk with me honesty, all of them agreed that they produce quite mediocre audio products. Do not take me wrong, all of them claimed that their creations are better then competitor, that their...
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A woman I met last weekend asked me a question: “What you do for own pleasure, Romy?” In response I ran with her my standard “talk to women” Feline Psychiatrist scenario but with all seriousness - the question how to name what I do is not so simp...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]I agree with your thoughts. Current High End is to audio like Haute Couture is to fashion. You actually pay for something that a designer decided you may need (in fact he gives a damn if you need it or not always you buy it),...
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I always quite laugh when the Audio Morons ™, overwhelmed with zillion-dollars-worth audio installations and with primitive sound in their room, answer my questions: What you guys doing? Those people are under mistaking impression that they do High E...
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Audio people know how “live” music sounds and what impact it has to listener. Well not all of them know, and a large number of them never visited concert halls and are familiar with music only by the chest pressure that they experienced at pop-clubs ...
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[quote user="Steradian"] One area where standards have failed is in HDTV. I have no sympathy for the morons who decided to have 2 standards, 720p and 1080i. It is clear they prostrated themselves to corporate bribery to allow such to be called ...
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A few days ago I had a discussion with an audio guy I know when we were trying to name audio things that would be "nice" to be done in audio. For sure the industry fools are trying to convince everyone and themselves that the audio "nirvana" is jus...
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I constantly receive emails from people asking me my opinions about audio equipment. I was trying to address it in here:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=681
…but still. Those people do not really understand hot tedious to think ab...
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A few weeks ago a person visited me. We had a long listening and interesting conversation. He was extremely surprised that audio is not something that I make money on for living. I less care about his surprise but the argument that he brought up ...
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I constantly disgusted and appalled with the audio idiot’s invention of the concept of Synergy in audio. The concept was not invented by audio media and reviewers but was (and is) a tool audio resellers use in order to dupe the gullible but generally...
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The fact that cost in audio does not mean sound quality knows everyone and everyone, particularly whose sell expensive audio, love to pitch it. However, we all understand the cost/sound misbalance but we very seldom take it personally.
At my...
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The idea that Romy brings up is a very interesting way of looking at the audio reproduction of music, by raising questions about human response to situations in which we are compelled to actively participate in the audio process. Old live recor...
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One of the greatest and the most important things for me in power amplifiers is their ability to differentiate tones. When you listen live music you practically never hear two identical tones. Even two identical pitches presented after the diff...
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