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I know very little about bottlehead movement and the
people behind it. A single exposure I has it was good 10=12 year back there was
bottlehead meeting right here in Boston and I decided to go. It is was
very pathetic. I think that guy who run the...
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This weekend I will be finishing the whole Milq modefication, putting it back to the full-time service and this Sunday the James Levine’s live-to-tape broadcast of “Simon Boccanegra” is was planning to listen via the reincarnated Macondo.
Doin...
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... other salad of dairies during the “Lost Saturday”…. Morning…
Clark Johnson pitched a few days ago the Dino Ciani’s Beethoven sonatas…
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1468
The Ciani’s Beethoven is unquestionably wonderful but...
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[quote user="mem916"] I miss-understood. I did not realize you were able to play my file in "natural 96K". Since I am not able to play your file in "natural 88.2" I needed to make another recording before I can really compare yours to mine since my...
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I got my HDTT newsletter with announcement of HQCD:
“High Definition Tape Transfer is proud to announce HQCD, a new standard in digital disc quality and fidelity. HQCD, or High Quality Compact Disc, is a state-of-the-art disc made from special mater...
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Hey, people,
dose anyone know where can I find, buy, steal or order the large size of rubber belts for turntable. I’m looking for regular black thin and light belt, but I was not able to locate any sourse that would will to go larger then 38”. I ne...
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I feel that the correct objective of home music listening should be to reproduce as closely as possible what one can enjoy in a great concert hall with great musicians.Thus, I have been a advocate for surround processing for years. As stereo replaced...
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[quote user="morricab"] Fine, just don't call anything from playback Absolute. The only absolute is live unamplified music, it must be so as it is the original event. [/quote]Actually I do like the term Absolute and exactly in this context. The...
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"I think the
edge termination is less of an issue if the horn is operated above
cutoff, but in the case of your midbass horns, with the floor coupling,
things should be more interesting."There would be no effect at all, of the arangement in the pi...
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Paul McGowan, the head of PS Audio send his newsletter with his comments about SACD. The comments are childish and in many way absolutely ignorant. I hate what the industry professionals twist the facts and go into pure falsification in order to ...
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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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Rowuk got me re-thinking about how I arrived at the sound I
now get from my system. The short answer (shorter than the Long Answer…) is
that I started out trying to stay close to the sound of master tape from a nice
reel-to-reel machine. Right...
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It is shame that audio people mostly do not listen FM. If fact if I had a feeling that they do and if I know that they record live broadcasts then it might be possible to facilitate some kind of recording exchange service when “interesting” recording...
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Below is the very same fragment from the very same LP (also not original but re-issue). The file is 88/24, FLAC compression.
http://www.mediafire.com/?bpgxdbru87fkx8x
The sequence of signal is following:
Ortofone Jubelee in SME 3012R ...
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"Speakers Corner Records revives classical music powerhouse with new Decca labal reissues! Much can be said about Decca. About how the record label founded in Britain in 1929 grew to be such a classical genre powerhouse, revered by audiophiles for su...
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Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it. Computer playback has no unified standard and no reference in virtual world. If a person uses some...
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I was playing today my this week FM recording of Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” and the “The Song of the Earth” (both life-to-tape by baritone Thomas Hampson, one from San Francisco and another is from Concertgebouw) and I felt that it ever it wa...
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Hi Roman, hi all... intriguing post and interesting questions, as I've been for about 20 years a triode and, before, a tube user and a glowing-in-the-dark maniac.My experience...I purchased - years ago - an Hiraga 20W which I used as a bass enclosure...
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The other night I listened to a Girl with Guitar master tape. A friend has a home recording studio that would make most comercial studios not only jelaous, but also broke. A highly modded ATR 102 in 1/4" half track and a vintage stereo microphone; ...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...
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If we look generally at stability from bridges to optical measurement benches, mass has one function - tune resonance or place it outside of the desired passband. Other methods are chosen when we want to convert energy to heat.Do we know what a "ligh...
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The injection channel is the only thing about the Macondo that raises my eyebrow as a kind of "out there" concept and I have been meaning to ask about it for quite some time. I tried to brush up and read as much as I could just now on your experience...
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Hi Roman, hi all...... very interesting topic... I recently made the contact between Josh and Klaus and his Goto system... I experienced Klaus' system three times and also if someway blaming his choices about using only and exclusively "liquid music"...
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[quote user="Gregm"]There is a live recording (in stereo) of Beet 5th piano with Gieseking/Rother/Greater Orch of the 3rd Reich. The concert took place in 1944 and, allegedly, Hitler was present. The conductor is reported as Rother -- but there'...
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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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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the p...
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I never was a huge fun of this work but today was a WGBH’s live-to-tape broadcast with BSO played under British Mark Wigglesworth with soprano Juliane Banse. The concert was a month ago and I missed it live. To my big surprise I truly did not re...
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[quote user="alexd"]To answer your question about DAW output vs tuner. Well Tuner is not highest quality source to start with. I do not think you will hear much difference between DAW analog output and tuner analog output.[/quote]
It is unquestionab...
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Richard,
I have no experience on the subject. I heard many contradictory theories from various people about “how the plinth should be done” and “how the platter should be done”, including the materials, the mass ratio, that mass allocation and so on...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Well, but let's be honest, can it be so difficult to creat...
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