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Too true, Steve. As it happens, the distance between sidewalls just in front of my speakers is over 50 feet, and a wide hallway opens to large rooms along and at the end of its course. I have said all along in my The Loudspeakers thread that an "ongo...
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Thanks again for further explication, Bill. I appreciate that you are heavily invested in all this. Taking into account not only what I have been told but also what I've heard for myself, I think I can squeeze a bit more soundtage from my current set...
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So far, I am listening without specialized electro-mechanical
delay enhancement, so any space I am hearing is either a matter of "cues" captured during recordings, cues added to recordings by engineers or similar,
or they are sonic artifacts result...
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All you mention, Robin, and more. So, what is it that informs us of these things? I think it is simplistic to say it is UHF or ULF, even though these play into it. I believe there are also matters of "phase", and frequency response as one hears it wh...
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Easy to understand people investing in playback that includes a sense of space. In my own case, the more "space" I get, the more I want... to a point. So far, I have not been willing to sacrifice Musical power and density to get more "spatial cues". ...
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(With apologies to Gene Roddenberry...)
Listened to Contact CD via The Loudspeakers in my "new listening position" and I was blown away (although not entirely surprised) to discover there's a lot more to the recording t...
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It’s been such fun, and so gratifying, to keep getting
“more” from The Loudspeakers, which have so far been a veritable Sonic
Cornucopia, exceeding my expectations and delighting me again and again since I
first listened to Music with them, as...
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Today I experimented some more with positioning while
keeping Troels’ ideas in mind. I believe I mentioned that I liked the sound I
get when standing up between the speakers, as well as when I sit on the floor,
and when I measured the distance...
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Up the thread I shared that sitting on the floor with my
ears at the same elevation as the center of the 10” drivers sounded good, and that
I planned to put The Loudspeakers on 10” stands so I could sit in my listening
chair with my ears at th...
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“Reviewers” speak confidently about the various parts of
cited musical compositions, and in many cases I believe they hear what they say
they do. I think it is not only listening experience that bears this fruit, but
it might also be a gift, a...
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Another tool used by sound pros is LEAP. The guy who designed my BassZillas (some time ago) used this tool to make the most of a BR enclosure. As for the Fostex (U)HF, the pros tend to correct them digitally, as they need "something". Mainly, did you...
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Jarek, I have waited for some time for someone to advance a theoretical solution for your situation, as the problem you pose has been advanced repeatedly here for some time now. One might think about putting the PR on the opposite side of the cabinet...
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OK, I'm late for the party, but von Matacic/CPO, Bruckner 7, 1967 is a whole new Universe of Bruckner. The Maestro goes "beyond orchestration" to voice this symphony so every part of it is Musical, and the whole is such a phenomenal symphony that I a...
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Romy, I did not patronize ArkivMusic but I just pasted in the first blip I found with the right picture of the CDs I bought. I got mine from Rarewaves, USA via Amazon. I suppose only God knows if they had it "drop-shipped" from Arkiv, but nothing on ...
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As
for the Musical Part of this CD, it could hardly be more amazing. I understand
that the performance was taped live by German Public TV, and this might well
mean that there is a great DVD of this event. Harmonia Mundi was also involved,
and...
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It looks like there are several iterations of this particular performance floating around, and I do not know about the "others". Since this site won't load my photos, here is a link to the version I am telling about (I believe this 8th was performed/...
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Jarek, my CDs (2 in the box) did not come from Japan, and no Japanese characters on the box, just the RCA "wax seal" in the upper left front corner and the bottom right rear corner of the case, also the BMG logo on the back. The sound is "different" ...
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Now
I understand why people gush about Wand’s Bruckner 8 in the Lubeck cathedral!
I’ve heard B8 rendered with more “detail” but never a better overall balance of
sounds and Sound for this symphony, not to mention the very special
performance....
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I
want to revisit a CD recital that Romy first shared at GSC, The Spirit of
Koussevitzky, Gary Karr, bass, with Harmon Lewis on the piano. Apparently,
there is no substitute for bass when listening to bass. Who knew? The
Loudspeakers have pre...
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The CD got here in maybe 2 days, "Letters For The Future", Time For Three, DG label. It is structured and played as a concerto. I just played it via my Accustic Arts Drive 1 transport/iDAT 44++ DAC, etc. I am glad I got the CD, as it makes the Music ...
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Years ago I was quite involved with the local arts scene, including reading, writing and schmoozing for grants and subsidies, and all the politics of various and sundry institutions and "influential individuals" that are part of the working artist's ...
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Having listened a few times now, I still like the piece enough that I ordered the CD (Letters For The Future). I'll get back about how it comes across on my main system. Meanwhile, I often detect a sort of "buzz" exuded by artists who seem to be supe...
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As usual on Sunday evenings, I listened via headphones to the weekly local FM classical music broadcast. Last night they wound up with a phenomenal piece - Contact - from American composer Kevin Puts, played by a string trio - Time For Three - fronti...
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I think I have 3 versions of Bruckner 8, 2 performances on CD. 1 CD is Carl Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954, and the other is Herbert von Karajan/Vienna, 1988. The Karajan CD sounds better through my system, and I also prefer it in terms of the performance...
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Today I listened again to a couple of Bruckner 8 performances on CDs, namely von Karajan/VPO, 1988, also Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954. The Music is amazing on both CDs, but the 1988 performance (which may well have been digitally recorded to begin ...
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As I reported at GSC, my CD transport started acting up (skipping) quite a while ago, at a time when I was unable to deal with it. I thought at first I had ruined several CDs by playing them in my car, but that turned out to be a coincidence. When I ...
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Am I the only one who’s (just) noticed that I have not
yet specifically mentioned The Loudspeaker’s midrange driver? This seems odd,
in view of the fact that this driver is pretty much the beating heart of The
Loudspeaker, playing the range fr...
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Finally took on my mis-tracking CD transport, an Accustic Arts Drive 1 (Philips CD Pro 2 drive unit). I had looked online and I had the feeling my problem, at its root, might be caked grease on the optical reader rails, as I have had the thing for so...
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OK, I am keeping my new The Loudspeaker(s), and I will be selling my large "Diamond Edition BassZilla" OB speakers that feature OB high-passed Lowther DX-4s running wide range (NOT full range!) over 15" Audax PR380-M2 woofers in integrated BR boxes u...
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2023 was pretty weird for me, continuing battles with health issues and enduring cures that have been worse in some ways than the ailments. Somehow, I managed to build and integrate The Loudspeakers during this time, resulting in what turned out to b...
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