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Yes, this is kind of strange. This is a cheap Blue Ray player; I think it is Sony BDP-S790 for $279. It played anything and supports live stream for pretty much anything. It is very comfortable to have it in opera room as video source. The picture is...
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I'm not sure if the Salamander-style rack (wooden shelves supported by nuts and washers on threaded rods) will support 800 pounds, but if you put heavier items near the bottom then a wide heavy-duty version might be fine. Besides Salamander, some ot...
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Like I've said too many times, my wife has not much interest in music without rhythm (ie., dance music), and very little interest in "music" of any kind via audio, so she generally stays away from my audio sessions, which she refers to as, "Loud, bla...
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After a provisional cleaning of my crappy Yamaha C2 preamp, I got +/- balanced bass and then made a bit of discovery: Changed the parallel R in the HF circuit of the UK crossover from 50R to 25R (and switched the xcover to the treble boost mode which...
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Ollie, this sounds like a rather extreme rant I indulged in myself, not long ago.To put it more succinctly this time, the problem for me is when the end "product" winds up being a signature piece from someone (or - worse - everyone) in the "supp...
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Romy,
I'm also very interested in how you deal with a replacement for the 811b horn. I have not seen another hobbyist who has posted a suitable alternative with measurements. Its possible that the Azura horn recommended in the th...
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hi romyi disagree totally with your point of view regarding audio industry. i think first of all, what this all is abought, is to have fun listening to music. and it is VERY subjective, what is good sound reproduction, and what is not. if someone doe...
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This weekend it was 100s birthday of Günter Wand. I was not planning any “events” but the event did found me. Yesterday a local friend of my visited me. Me were listening some music and he brought some Japanese-made and not available otherwise DVDs w...
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As I told you that side effect of my Video Room project turned out that I changed my mindset from hating that room and considering it as a worthless in the house to the sadden admiration of the room. No I do not watch videos in there but I just turn...
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[quote user="Serge"]Romy, I'd agree that it is not really exciting to have the 5.1 for watching classical music videos in the Opera room. It is hard to obtain good sound from 2 speakers, 5 or more is then ridiculous. The downmix to 2.0 option is a bi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It would be more complicated then that… as they do better or worth under the different conditions… I will be posting my further comments into this thread… Stand by….[/quote]A few words about the measurements above. When I m...
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The issues with tape speed are complicated. I have no recordable NAB equalized headblock for my Stellavox SU8 and I can only play NAB tapes: 2 and 4 track. My recording headblock is IEC equalized 2 track only. As I said I n...
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This edition, 26 CDs box-set, compiled and commented in detail by Juergen Kesting, presents recordings from Maria Callas in glory days, the first decade of her career from 1947 to 1956. This collection is structured on themes and roles. Mar...
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I have written in past that for some mystery reasons my PP3000+, and I presume all other PP3000+, do adversely affected by switching power supplies in the feeding line. I have PP3000+ and older PP3000 and both of them works wonderfully, one on main l...
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Another conductor whose recordings I recently discover (Got bless the Japan) one after another and keep astonish myself that Kegel is relatively little know or popular."Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of ...
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New Releases All releases are on CD or 24/96 DVD
1) BEETHOVEN - CHRIST ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVESHERMAN SCHERCHEN CONDUCTING THE VIENNA STATE OPERA ORCH.JAN PEERCE · MARIA STADER · OTTO WIENERVIENNA ACADEMY CHORUS
Transfered from ...
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With my resent discovery of Wagner:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=8393#8393
…..I am listening some Wagner lately and I discovered a truly gem. In 1960 Frantz Konwitschny led Berlin’s Staatskapelle and State Opera Chorus with...
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This is classical common mode noise interference on a common supply. This type of noise will pass right through any power conversion technology and in both directions. Due to the timing variations, I would expect it to be a little bit of mains inte...
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Hi,[quote user="dazzdax"]Thx for this well written and highly educational piece Thorsten! It appears that Romy is not very fond of the Audio Consulting transformers, could you give your opinion regarding those? What is your opinion regarding the use ...
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If you missed the webcast of the opening night of Tristan on WFMT, perhaps you can catch it on your local station sometime in the future. Fortune smiled and blessed me with two 7th row seats. I leave the commentary to John von Rhein:
http://ww...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yes, it is better to hear it once then to have 5244 times to hear about it. BTW, you might not need SACD all that you need is live FM.[/quote] Don't get me wrong: despite the hard time finding a no cost babysitter, I atte...
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The 2009-10 Metropolitan Opera season has officially been announced.
Tosca - new production by Luc Bondy with Karita Mattila, Marcelo Àlvarez/Jonas Kaufmann, Juha Uusitalo/Bryn Terfel, James Levine (c).Contes d´Hoffmann - new production by Bartlett ...
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Following the recent thread about the Prokoviev’s “Hale to Stalin” I would like to pitch to the choral music lovers one more name. Russian Orthodox liturgy mostly sucks. There was a dozen of Russkis composers who composed Russian chants: Totov, Grech...
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[quote user="amperidian"] …in typical Gergiev fashion ... grave, dynamic impact with iron-like control, yet musical and subtle with finesse when called for. I think it is very hard to balance those elements and right now nobody does it better t...
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[quote user="steverino"]Oh I think it is very much a recursive arc but not in terms of audio fidelity etc as much as life history. … And how interesting that the big rig no longer a sweet spot but instead has a sweat spot.[/quote] Yes, you are very m...
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The last month was strange. We undergo a minor house overhaul.
It started from the fact that we looking around the house and discoed two extra
bedrooms that we did not exist. The result was kind devastating – we completely
remap the rooms of the h...
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This may not be the right place. I am always emotionally involved with the music I listen to. Sometimes there is a quality to it that makes tears stream down my face - not matter what gendre of music or whether it is sad or happy.This subject was d...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I was simply amazed years ago by the little Sony "Pro Walkman" tape recorder, which could literally create and play back material that was sonically better than most records.[/quote] I also have used a professional DAT recorder ...
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My Cat truly lives on her own. She never comes to me when I call her. She always does whatever she wants. She always wants something different from what I want. I am with her since she was 6 days old She teaches me to live soon to be 21 years and I a...
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This is very interesting subject. As many times I went to live concerts with somebody I never remember that a person was listening problem. There were people who underdressed or over-dress, the people who over-used perfume, the damp people who read ...
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