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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: HIStory / YOURstory by Joe Roberts on 2009-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  107 Replies 
[QUOTE]I do not know that HP use to tell in 80s[/QUOTE]I know you don't, that's why I seriously suggest you check it out.The logic "musical intention of composer/conductor"-->minute analysis of 3D representation of orchestra performance in view of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: The Return of THE SPEAKER? by Paul S on 2011-05-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new G.I.P speakers. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
There has been a low-ish buzz in the hi-fi rags for a while now, to the effect that perhaps we should reconsider "neutrality" and return to the musical-instrument-type speakers of yore.  Of course any sea change is good for the Hi-Fi Industry, just a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: It is an interesting subject by Paul S on 2007-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems in Horn-Loaded Speakers  120 Replies 
Romy, I recognize and appreciate the very specific points you make but I am instead referring only to your last observation about "the harmonic deficiency of playback in the melody range", and I was just trying to shoehorn this idea in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #340: Misbehaving horns. by oxric on 2010-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I woke up and thinking about the horn problem with fresh head I am thinking what did wrong. I did not measure the frequency response of the horn – I did not see a need for it – the sound of the thing is way beyond where it ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #380: Shaping the Imagination by Paul S on 2010-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
Jessie, the "Horn Free Lunch"  derives exactly and specifically from "efficiency" registered at frequencies much higher than those ultimately required from the driver in the horn speaker.  The horn is there only to provide "gain" at lower frequencies...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Art of Listening by Paul S on 2008-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Implied Sound” in Audio. in Playback Listening  24 Replies 
For several years I wrote a ongoing monthly editorial about poetry (The Art of Poetry).  No nutshell version is available, but Romy''s post reminds me that much of it dealt with just the active aspect of Dialog that is discussed h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Intelligence by steverino on 2013-10-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More or less pleasure: wider implication in Playback Listening  7 Replies 
We don't know enough about the person X to assess the situation. I might say something similar if I went to a local semiprofessional orchestra, paid a few bucks and heard them play better than I expected. If I had paid $100 and spent an hour each way...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: No further corrections. by Romy the Cat on 2004-12-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Denon 103: myths and the reality in Analog Playback  29 Replies 
[quote user="guy sergeant"]any chance of a similar climb down on the 'adequate but not exceptional' 834P?[/quote]Not really. The 834PT still holds ground and the more I hear different phonostages the more firmly it does. I can’t tell you if it is due...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Not so much a contest, as I see/hear it by Paul S on 2008-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Coops, do you have any personal observations or ideas about the ultimate TT, or are you already invested and just checking my credentials?  I would like to know your thoughts, too, based on your own personal listening habits, preferences an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... by Stitch on 2014-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
Well, as usual, we can read all over what one likes or dislikes....each his own of course. But, we can not read why someone did like or did not like something.Same for me of course, but it would be helpful to offer a kind of "priority" (or whatever o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: "Musical" versus "accurate" (again...) by Paul S on 2007-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Low output MC? in Analog Playback  22 Replies 
I would think that one would opt at least for a cartridge able to distinguish between different violins (well) recorded in different spaces.  Although aural memory itself remains suspect, still one does want to entertain an illusi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: LO MC, Tone and Dynamics by Paul S on 2007-04-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Low output MC? in Analog Playback  22 Replies 
Stringreen, what an interesting series of posts.  I generally enjoy musicians' takes on hi-fi, especially as these relate to sound (versus music).  In all performances there are so many things to listen for and to.  What I have mo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Volume versus detail by Paul S on 2007-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Low output MC? in Analog Playback  22 Replies 
It is probably fodder for another thread, but I have also pondered the volume versus detail issue.  I have in the past owned systems, and I have heard many systems, that rendered a lot of nuance and detail at low-ish volume settings.&n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Negative Feedback by Vasyachkin on 2010-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Some Observations about Science and Bass in Playback Listening  12 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]But I do appreciate your applied thoughts on the evils of feedback loops.[/quote]I don't think that feedback loops are evil.  They solve some problems and create others.  Your human body employs a virtually infinite number of suc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Don't necessarily trust your soundcard/interface... by manisandher on 2008-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
... to pass data unchanged.I've been ripping my CDs (using EAC and a Plextor CD-ROM drive) for about 4 years now. I use Foobar with ASIO (and now with WASAPI also) as the software player, loaded onto a Sony laptop. The soundcard is an RME FF800.Now t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: "Closure" by Paul S on 2014-04-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic in Musical Discussions  18 Replies 
It seems to me that in terms of notes and sequences, the themes, broadly speaking, +/- "follow", but the spirit, tempi and mood (at least of the Solti performance), and even the extended chord structures seem somehow disconnected from what has transp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: From an LP Darkly by Paul S on 2015-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Van Cliburn Moscow 1958 in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I was gifted a mono LP version of this performance, which I have listened to closely but once, with fair electricity. This time I was more impressed with the orchestra/orchestration than the piano playing, which I found to be a bit much, overall, an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: I think you are still not getting it. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
Item, I agree that a digital transport only processes data (actually not processes but read would be more accurate definition but I do understand that reading implies a lot of processing) and delivers it to a converter but in real world in order ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Solti/VPO, 1966 by Paul S on 2010-03-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh in Musical Discussions  81 Replies 
London ffrr, CSA2216,; stereo LPI have always found the first movement of this symphony to be the most musically satisfying part of it, and nothing in the cited performance has changed this old bias.  I have to give Solti credit here, however, fo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: "performance-centric" site by tuga on 2009-06-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Top Recordings of All Time! in Musical Discussions  5 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A Very Nice "Eroica"! by Paul S on 2009-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A Very Nice "Eroica"! in Musical Discussions  1 Replies 
Sudwestfunkorchester, Baden-Baden/Jascha Horenstein; Vox, STPL 510-700 (stereo; recorded in Germany)I think that Beethoven's 3rd Symphony is another case of great music that is so universally appreciated that it becomes ubiquitous, and then we begin ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What are the odds of attending a great performance? by Paul S on 2007-08-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: I hate, hate, hate, hate Boston Symphony! in Musical Discussions  72 Replies 
I am sorry to say that I have sat through very few symphonic or opera performances in San Diego, even when the price of the seats made me feel bad about leaving, too.I did hear what seemed at the time to be a wonderfully-inspired ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Compared to Perlman/Stern/Mehta/NYP by Paul S on 2007-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oistrakh(s) on Monitor MC 2009 (1957) in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
I will certainly look for the Heifetz you mention, Romy.  I gave away the later "vanity" issue!Digging through my still largely un-racked LPs I did find another Bach "Double Violin" with Perlman and Stern "under" Mehta, with the New York Philhar...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Getting Started with Myaskovsky by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Getting Started with Myaskovsky in Musical Discussions  35 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Re: no edible cakes available here. bake your own... by guy sergeant on 2006-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Truth stretched out via Feastrex prism. in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Mozart: "Cosi Fun Tutte" on CD by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mozart: "Cosi Fun Tutte" in Musical Discussions  2 Replies 
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...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Help to fight for best version. by Romy the Cat on 2013-09-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Kitties go to London in Audio Discussions  92 Replies 
While I am in UK, have UK’s IP as am trying to use your instruction to get the Bruckner 8 from Proms. We are somewhere at the Scotland border, it is 4AM in the morning and for the last 2 hours I was trying to follow your instructions but all my effor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Midbass Heft by Chirag on 2006-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? in Melquiades Amplifier  27 Replies 
Hi Cat[quote user="Romy the Cat"] However, here is where the trick begins. Putting the headphones on, playing them along with the big loudspeakers system and adjusting the volume of the “big system” (primary the LF channel) it is possible to take the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Higher power by Amir on 2023-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2023 in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]"High-efficiency electrostatic speakers"??? Is this not an oxymoron? My friend, Mark, who sometimes visits and posts in this form, has gigantic Sound Lab 'stats. He hates SS, and he uses VTL Wotan tube amps to drive them, 1.200W ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: JBL 2440 by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Hmmm... the sad truth about BMS.. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  6 Replies 
I did not see in your post any “sad truth about BMS”I would stick in the JBL 2440. It is relatively inexpensive. Has practically the same performance as the hipped JBL 375 and all together a good performer. It’s diaphragms are wildly available and it...
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