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Playing the Günter Wands’ recordings of the last Bruckner Symphony with NDR (North German Radio Orchestra) from 1978-88 during Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Another “amateur” conductor with phenomenal sound! I need a bigger place as I would like...
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Richter and Karajan playing the Tchaikovsky PC1 are well celebrated performance. Some years back I had a fool fixation to get one moment from that play to sound in a certain way – I have perhaps 15 different pressings of the thing. Unfortunately I a...
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JP, that are funny settings. You source the clock from AES line but do lock it. I do not know at what rate you record but you’re A/D looks like output 88K, you card read 44K and it is not locked – a complete mess. Call ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do not get me wrong, I do like the BSO files sound but I also admit that it is not as good as it might be. The Cat[/quote]The 88.2/24 files are HDCD... according to my DAC!Mani...
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Miab, This sound like a good news but what kind streaming is it? Do I need to use any special stream consumer to get it? I was looking in your link and I was not able to find any 16bit/48Khz feed. The tendency is great however if it was true. If they...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I play a lot of LP recently and last night I noted that sound was quite bad. It was like a bad electricity day only atop of it sound has some kind of odd digitalization atop of everything. Of course I was blaming the PurePo...
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Keith, search the - site there are plenty information about interface I use between DACs and my digital sources. Still, what I do with my digital and how frustrated you with digital are is absolutely irrelevant in context of the given thread. This th...
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Stitch, narrative is very interesting. I never had new Meitner’s DACs. I hear it countless time and each time it was very bad sound but it was always was in context of other brainless people sound and I do not know if ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Brits Pristine “eventually” heard my call. A few years back I begged them to sell the raw 24-bit masters bit not the 16/44 releases, as the down conversion below 20 bit kills too much of sound. It looks like nowadays th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Mr. Boyk is rather audio–anomaly among typical musicians.[/quote]
Well, I have to agree with this. I guess you do not publish an article of some point of view that is very obvious to everyone.[quote user="Romy the ...
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Imaging is a property of listening perception. The soundstage is a property of sound reproduction. Let me be a cryptic here and would give not the answer but a lead to the answer. Do you familiar with Home Theaters? It is absolutely imposable t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Even if it is possible with a given (multichannel, faulty design) loudspeaker then the DPLOS become very fragile and appears/appears too sudden, without a gradual improvement while approaching the DPLOS. The keys are phase...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]whatever I express at my site I truly mean it.[/quote]You sound a bit like anti-Meister Eckhart :-DIf I ever had any objective in my playback it would be along Eckhart's lines...
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The paint has dried and the plugs from throats are removed. The horns are officially opened. BTW, they sound like shit. The Cat...
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[quote user="JANDL100"]Oh, and the sound is surprisingly good! 1953 and 56 mono.[/quote] Jerry, unfortunately you heard “wrong” Gieseking. The real Gieseking is the Gieseking before the WW2, in 20s and 30s. After the war the Gieseking’s play changed ...
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Headphones shall not take to different direction. In fact it shall not be a lot of changes in sound when your take your headphones off and begin to listen your speakers. Speakers shall be MUCH more advised in imaging and spaceial department but good ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, all this seems to be fairly typical of large-ish listening rooms, along with grotesque lobing and combing. [/quote] Yes, this is what I call the High-End Saloon Sound. Those relatively large demo rooms with depersonalized “...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Tomorrow a cleaning lady will de-dust and clean the house and the acoustic treatment will go to the walls. [/quote]I figure out that it is time and put some acoustic treatment on the walls and at some spot of ceiling. The 2...
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1) Identifying for myself what my expectations and criteria for beter sound reproduction. – 50% of efforts. 2) Experiencing better sound reproduction and assessing of what works and what does not - 10% of efforts. 3) Build/buy own playback a...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Let see what he have out there. I think the companies like Spectral, Boulder and Burmester are very much in position to make challenging contemporary preamps. In fact Burmester has been doing something like this for year bu...
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Yesterday I was listening an broadcast from Netherlands over FM with Mariss Jansons leading Concertgebouw and Netherlands Radio Choir with Mahler’s Resurrection. The play was horrible, starting from playing of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and ending...
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I like them and use the quite extensively. As the comparing result between the headphones and the loudspeakers…. they are different. The best speakers sound-wide would do a similar result to what the headphones can do but the loudspeakers but will ha...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do have the answers about the right objectives but I have my reasons do not share them with you and I would like you to develop those answers for yourself.[/quote]Fair enough.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... Sine you willi...
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Andrewmartyn, What do you find interesting in those speakers? They looks like some kind of re-entry horns and they usually sound very bad. The Cat...
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The DC biasing of filtering caps was something that I was advocating for years but recently I was pointed out that German Avantgarde took it a bit further. I did not use this method but it goes sound interesting. Read the Avantgarde’s document, the p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Make an experiment, and I will simplify the case quite assertively. Take a typical compression driver, cross it at 800Hz, second order and load it into a proper contemporary horn (Tratrix or JMLC) of 300Hz. Listen that hor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The HF Range “F” channel: The 6E6P-DR at 30mA connected at tetrode. The filter is second order with Sowter 9858 Pultec MEQ-5 EQ Inductor 420/277/145/108/61/34 mH) and variable air cap. The variable inductance and capacitan...
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Sure, it is fully colored in JBL self-glorifying propaganda and their drivers from the last 20 years do not sound good but it is interesting to read that their objectives are remarkably similar to what I was trying to accomplish by my “Fundamentals C...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Make an experiment, and I will simplify the case quite assertively. Take a typical compression driver, cross it at 800Hz, second order and load it into a proper contemporary horn (Tratrix or JMLC) of 300Hz. Listen that hor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]buy a box of Epoisses Berthaut cheese. Just one sniff of this French wonder will give you an instant reference about the YO186 sound.[/quote]La fromage de les Epoisses du Borgogne, c'est ma favorite. Bad news since the YO1...
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