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“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback. I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...
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[quote user="Amphissa"] Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured in the West. She is re...
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No matter how often I go through it I still frequently get confused and disoriented when tubes go bad. In this case I have been integrating a new (passive) pre-amp and a new (tubed) phono stage into the system, including trying various tub...
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Alex, contrary to the numerous speculation that many people more or less reasonably spread about the subject, my experience indicates that there are no such a things as “preferable crossover frequencies". The chosen optimum crossover frequencies are...
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It would be nice if we had a unified theory concerning power and audio systems performance but that would not be enough. For example a physicist can provide elegant equations describing heat transfer in a vacuum. But ask them to provide an exact equ...
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Hi drdna, Three things that I have found that can seriously damage the performance of our horn system is: Speaker location, heavy gage or multi stranded speaker wire, and room reflections. When you locate the speakers, m...
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Hi Romy,B&W are the internationally acknowledged masters in using pseudo-science in their marketing and very effective it is too. If ever there was a quotient for the difference between claimed and actual performance theirs would be the largest. ...
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So true, Romy.I think I mentioned a while back listening to a live San Diego Opera Company production of "Orpheus in the Underworld" - in my CAR, and this sense of anxiety, anticipation and participation was available even under those very limited ci...
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So, don't hold back... did you like it???I, too, love the great outdoor venues, like the Hollywood Bowl and the old Greek Theater, which probably do not have bad seats (or at least they did not before DSP...). I have also seen/heard ...
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It has been a long time since I enjoyed "early music", and I think I can pretty much trace my falling out with the genre to the meteoric rise of Christopher Hogwood and Company, with their twistedandpained "authentic" expression, using the well-r...
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Thank you Joaco for your reply. I was hoping tubes could ameliorate the brutal sound many CDP exhibit. I was at an audio fair recently and heard a Tentlab player with the Philips CD Pro mech and tube output that had a kind of gentle sound very unlike...
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Ollie, I know of no "label" that did/does everything right, either musically or technically. The VERY OLD joke is: Great performance, lousy recording; great recording, lousy performance. And the truth is that the rarest of rare events is a great re...
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but...If you stay with the conversation long enough, and perhaps if the designer is honest enough, TT designers may well mention in passing various compromises that they have been stuck with, for myriads of rea...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Twogoodears, occasionally posting at this site also have mentioned it in his blog: http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/04/wjaas-cartridges-survey-part-4-mr-ks.htmlbut I do not know what the Twogoodears reference points ...
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Axel:One wonders how much one must pay to get it right from the start...Actually, the "sagging" cantilever is not peculiar to the Jubilee or the Windfeld, but it has been a long-standing problem for Ortofon on a number of their more expensive cartrid...
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It is interesting that any conversation about a specific technology in TT instantly get converted into conversation about brands. We were talking about idler roles and then we get embraced into thinking of Garrard vs. EMT. Perhaps it needs to be...
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Of course - as ever - the cited discussion has nothing to do with the arm...and - as ever - the price is no indicator of its performance capabilities...Stitch, do you know if the vertical "leaf" bearing is on the plane of the arm tube, as it seems to...
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Romy, I am hardly familiar with Bruckner. The local SO never plays it and, honestly, they are not really equipped to do it; and this was mostly the case when I lived in LA, also. And because my hi-fi systems could never do it, I do not even have a g...
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I've played around with a couple of amplifiers that have variable output impedance, namely the Berning ZH-270 and Wolcott Presence P220M. The Wolcott Presence in particular is interesting, as the constantly-variable output impedance control can...
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The best hi-fi LF I have heard came from modified "pro" units (multi-15s) that had a LOT of power thrown at them; and furthermore, the system was "managed" by an... equalizer (albeit, done in real time...). This is not to speak of its FR performance...
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Firstly let me say that I believe musicians could be just about the most important people to judge the quality of Hi Fi. They know how the music sounds during creation so can best judge if that quality has been preserved (less destroyed) at playback....
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Hi Romy,I think it is a 3000. The other platter/base seems (from the ebay advert) to be home-made with a 16" diameter.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5860808877&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1I presume...
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Royal Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Chesky CR6, 1988(originally recorded in London's Walthamstow Town Hall, October, 1962).This is an excellent dub and transfer of a lovely (stereo) recording done just before Fritz Reiner passed on.&nb...
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Well, I'm pleased to own the vinyl set in question, and if I ever listen to the Mustard set it will be out of curiosity.I bet I'll even miss Gould's much-hated-by-me humming...Or do their computers add that "perfectly", too?Remember, we are not talik...
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I love much of the classic La Scala performance archive, and some of it is well recorded, too; just not as well as the Mercury Rigoletto. Interestingly, it seems like if performers are not simply scared shitless at La Scala, then they may well ...
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I happen to prefer the 7th piano sonata to the 11th, as music; but in this case there is enough "performance bleed through" to +/- homoginize these two not-entirely-dissimilar sonatas on this record, Angel 35653. One might get the best of this ...
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Since most likely the most of the site visitors did not pay attention to my post about this strange composer with unpronounceable first name I decided to place a two fragments from one of the Kálmán operetta: The Gipsy Princess (Die Csardasfurs...
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Put the "differences" idea in the bank. We want "insight" and "involvement"; a "connection", as it were; not just the sound, per se, but the performances, and the performance as a whole. Also consider that Time is a factor; we may "get tired of" a gi...
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[quote user="Paul S"]...Certainly, in the end, I have "rated" my own systems on Musical "Satisfaction", which I put in quotes because what keeps my interest at any given point in time seems to vary, at least somewhat. Hard to imagine stopping on one...
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Well it hard to find for whatever reasons. “Bescal” released it but I would not trust then and would look for the original Everest release. I do not know who sell CD and I have seen ay used market they goes for stupid prices. Still, you might fish th...
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