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When people ask me what I would like to do if I were not a software engineer I usually reply that I would like to work in Cat's shelter. I would like to be surrounded with hundreds Cat's who will even walk across me like I am a piece of furniture - w...
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Buck up, Yoshi. I get what you are saying about "yellow", but this sort of de-construction excercise can be done with any driver. For one thing, 3 cu. ft is way too big. If you must have a box, try 1/2 that size.I think the Lowther [sic] ...
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Those are the taps that turns on/off all the components connected to it when your PC is turned on/off. "elecom" thing says production discontinued though.
Yoshi...
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The biggest event in my audio 2007 was Romy's visit/tuning of my system, and the following exchange which ended up with a revelation of how shallow my understanding and practice of audio/music was. It ultimately seems to come down to the a...
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[quote user="yoshi"]Unfortunately, we also have the lists of "Audiophile recommended CDs" on every audio related publications in Japan. I refer to them as something I should avoid.[/quote]Avoid? Not necessarily. Yoshi, It is not about the fact ...
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[quote user="yoshi"]This, seems to me, is like comparing the work of Francisco de Goya to that of Jackson Pollock.[/quote]This made me suddenly think: but I see them both in the same museum, where they use the same lighting and they both hang on...
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Yoshi, it has nothing to do with Newton and Einstein. You playback just moved from a typical random and brainless stacking up of accidental drivers, horns and enclosures in “as is” order into something that was more or less orchestrated with intentio...
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In my experience, for many people, "lyricism" is a key when introduced to new music, no matter what the gene is. In that respect, I'd say 3rd movement of 8th.OTOH, audio people can easily be impressed by dynamic presentation, especially through the ...
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[quote user="jweiss"]Hi Romy, Here is a hypothetical question. If someone sent you an email telling you, in quite a clear way, how you had made an enormous mistake in one of your audio projects, for example an exercise in modifying a speaker, detaili...
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I've been having love/hate relationship with Lowther (and its siblings) for several years now. As you all say, it has many problems to use as a full-ranger. Right now, my set up is a 3way multi-amp, Lowther (Reps 1) in Medallion cabi...
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It is the "Big'Un", high-passed at 110Hz if I remember what he said correctly. The tweeters are back in the main driver frame with some EQ added. I'm sure the effect I heard came from the combination of the driver and the cabinet. So ...
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I do a lot of spray painting on my other job. One particular paint that gives rough texture is Auto Air Color's candy colors.http://www.autoaircolors.com/They are supposed to be used diluted with their Transparent Extender and coat it with...
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beside the title, "Apeal to the Great Spirit", the stature itself reminds me of Sibelius 5th.
Yoshi...
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Yes, Jerry, thanks,I would like to pick some Anton Nanut CDs, not everything from you list but juts some of them. What I would be interesting if the Japanese folks ever pressed Nanut CD/LPs. In SOME cases the Japanese CD mastering is much more intere...
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Yoshi, I do not think you have to be so hard in your Lowther at this point, in fact if I m not mistaken, it was not a regular Lowther that rather some strange derivation from it. It did not sound right nether to me nor to you but I think the very fir...
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Jordi:As another paralyzed (I have a problem in my leg), deaf (problem in my left ear), coma (I take a downer everyday for my anxiety problem) and nearly unemployed (my 2 self-employed business barely covers our household expenses along with the tuit...
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Last night, I got an oppotunity to hear what Romy's been screaming about the quality of FM broadcast. Yes, it is in an "insulting" level. The biggest surprise was the harmonic integrity live-broadcasts presents us. Not only with orc...
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I found many reports on SHM-CD sound on Japanese blog sites. Most of them comment very favorably on SHM-CD, clear, better resolution, livelier, etc. Some mentions different balance compared to the CD version, many comments SHM-CD sou...
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Yoshi, it is interesting that you associate existence of high-end with Holt’s and Pearson’s publications but not wit the actual audio accomplished efforts. The Holt declared the establishment of high-end market in Stereophile on 70s… many years after...
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What was wrong was that I do not have a proper evaluation method/ability of Sound and piled up my system around the Reps driver with an intention to overcome the obvious shortcomings under the way I've been listening to jazz. The result wa...
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From the beginning, I was drawn into the almost haunted look of 86 years old conductor. His facial expressions and body movements communicate the meaning of the music as much as the performance of the orchestra itself. You can also s...
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I will say again it is important to speak from experience, not conjecture. The cartridges hand made by Yoshi Sugano were exquisite and the Rosewood Pro 4 accomplishes things that no other cartridge I have heard could do. It had shortcomings admitted...
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There isn't much in Japanese page either. I checked some other sites including Universal's own, but all what they say are;Material Characteristics-Uses a different polycarbonate plastic which has improved transparency and superior opt...
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I do admitt that I have a tendancy to be attracted monochromic works in general, rather than colorful extarvaganza, both in music and visual. The colors, even strong colors, when balanced and co-ordinated under a specific intention, can achieve some...
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Stitch, I hope you understand that my great-sounding "American/Canadian" i-DAT 44+ is made from the cheap and tacky stock i-DAT 44, which is quite inexpensive but also not interesting, IMO. God knows where the stock unit was actually made, but it is...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Still, although a certain level of expressionism and intentions might be found in the better players from the jazz’s past but unfortunately even that music is very one-dimensional and very lightly content-loaded.
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Well, Yoshi, at least you're on your way to getting your speakers more of a piece.I have for some time warned people against a mix-n-match approach with the DEBZs, based on my early experiments with them, and it is true enough to say, I think, that&n...
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When I wrote that article about 4 years ago, I received responses from a couple of different countries asking about the feasibility of opening and maintaining such establishments today. I had to give them a very negative answers unless they hav...
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Looks like I'm back into this again, since, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Yoshi up and sent me his "neutered" Reps 1 drivers (he surgically removed the whizzers).I started turning my existing Basszilla components and these guys together ...
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I understand what you are saying in conceptual level and I agree 99% of us are molded in the frame work of the industry, but in practice, don't we need "knowledge and experience" albeit from a different perspective (the listening awareness)? Th...
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