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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Otherwise I would buy Warren’s Ikonoklast speaker with Lowther DX-4 driver and will be discovering how to “proporly” appreciate the Decca cartridge[/quote]Ouch!Did you have to mention the Ikonoklast speakers? Of cours...
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[quote user="Paul S"]N-set, you've certainly earned the right to enjoy your gear! Again, which SUT will you use? No practical way to measure ESR, etc. on this, I suppose...[/quote]Paul, the SUT's are Pieter's Tribute MkII. I could measure this or th...
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As for the EAR834 Air itself, while calibrating I've noticed I always get a a delicate MF recess, no matter what I do:(neverming the HF roll-off--it's my cheap card, I'll scan it with SG505-HP400FL when I mount them)Can it be that this slight recess ...
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I must admit that in general Britten is one of my least favourite Brit composers - I really just do not usually get on with his musical language.But the violin concerto is a very honourable exception - I guess because it has so many similarities with...
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My WHRB’s starts the spring Orgy period, the podcast available on-line.
http://www.whrb.org/
On May 5th 6MP, WHRB starts to broadcast 3–days long Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy with the following program:1865 (rev. 1884): Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1; ...
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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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This is always good advice, to get to know the character of the phono stage. Because my favorite cartridges are not low voltage (I use Decca London Jubilee and Reference) I have never had a need for the ET SU-1 step up unit. In fact, I had this in my...
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Today I continued exploration despite the azimuth problem which starts to look serious (either the arm or the cart has a problem and no az adjustment, researching this). Added some VTF to reach 2.70g to give it a bit better tracking conditions despit...
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I remember the old Decca cartridges as quite maddening, a real love/hate connundrum. Unrivaled, totally addictive "immediacy", and dynamics that made anything else sound muffled and plain wrong, but also about as user-unfriendly and unrel...
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As I grow old and nurse a fragile back, I too have a fantasy of a good sounding, lightweight TT (and amp, speakers for the matter).Every lightweight TT on the market makes me interested for this reason
(Rega Planar 9, Well Tempered, Roksan, Amazon,...
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... to better express myself, with every needed nuance... Roman: I never wrote I'm able to time-align my speakers, I only told you I quite recently began "moving" drivers and horns as I never did in the past few years, NOT simply looking for a practi...
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I have a cousin who is autistic. He is happy most of the time but he isn't really able to communicate his feelings to anyone else. He is also a very talented musician who plays the violin & piano very well. There are many interesting aspect...
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[quote user="amperidian"]Speaking of impressive technical skill ... I just listened to Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi Album released under decca label. Although very proficient in the technical area, to me it sounds very much like she is missing the...
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I live in San Francisco, of course. I have a horn system as everyone knows and a smaller standard electrodynamic system, which is no longer made. As everything is heavily customized. I do not think it will suit your purposes. However, what is absolut...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I thought of the AMR equalization curve options as I listened to a London FFRR LP (Kubelik/VPO/New World) today using my new technique to optimize stylus tracking.The FFRRs are well known to have some extra LF, all right, but wit...
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Amir,you have now posted twice that "proper" USB is better than SPDIF. The problem is that it isn't, unless someone makes up rules to define their own sense of better. The problem here is that they have not defined anything that is better. Both metho...
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What sound? With Remedies or horns? Funnily enough, a few days ago I played via Dannoys my heaviest cannon - Decca London Reference +FR64S all silver wired, Charcroft Z-foils etc etc. Big symphonic music, not particularly my favorite but... it wa...
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I think that the perception of the Onyx depends on the rest of one's stereo system and the other components one compares it to.When I say the Koetsu is one of the top cartridges in the world, I would say this about most modern audiophile cartridges, ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) High electrostatic or whatever other reason make the cartridge very prone to collect dust.
2) Exceedingly hard-reading with slightly overly prominent leading-edges of the phases. This demands VERY high quality...
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Today on WFMT's New Releases program, Lisa Flynn played a live recording of Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto. Composed in 2001, this performance I believe is from the fall of 2012. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra, and th...
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Very interesting point about Gergiev. I do not dispute it. I just know that at present time some of the work released by him is very pleasing to me. That does not limit me to only listening to what Gergiev is doing. For example...
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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...
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markus46 wrote:Assuming you're in the market for a new component, then perhaps the middle ground is to read the whitepapers, reviews, web sites with an open mind. Then listen yourself (preferably in your own home with your own gear) and m...
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Stereo is only as good as the width of your head,,,Both visual and audio...Of course locolazion diminish,s as you sit back further,, Hall ambiences will eventually take over...If you are the conductor you get a different perspective,,,And PERSPEC...
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Wojtek, I do use 8 Ohm drivers, and I am mildly curious about the "pattern" thing. As I said in posted responses to Bud, I +/- accept the science but suspect the implementation in this case; however, I would be happy to give a listen...
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I hope these friends of mine who clamed that that stupid Denon M31 might play music will read this post. After of a 3 weeks or living with Macondo I found myself having no radio. My portable playback, that does very well, is on my work. I do no...
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[quote user="markus46"]I don't believe that making fun at other people's expense adds value to a point of view. Certainly not the foul language and vicious name-calling employed by Romy.[/quote]Well, I think it is just his style. He calls...
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Dear Romy, the playlists as requested. Regards, Peter Foster.---Playlist 06; Song 01.Track 1; 17:27.Serge Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra.Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 4 in F Minor, Opus 36.RCA Victor LM 1008; Recorded 1949.LP -> Tu...
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As I said a few days back it was a big event in my life: I bought October TAS magazine in book store
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11954
Doing it a few times in year is so wonderful journey into the realm of id...
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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