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Back in 2019 I was converting the Altec Model 19 into myCetla 91 version
by introducing to it a custom new 18-section horn loading by Vitavox S2 driver.
It was a fan project and it was using in my Opera room for years. This morning
I was passing b...
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[quote user="stuck.wilson"]one of the most heinous- outside public opinion- is the current state of 'studio recording'- not scrupulous and thorough transparent use of good recording equipment, but the economics-derived aesthetic of ...
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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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My playback was in “distraction mode” for a few weeks. The electricity is horrible nowadays, summer… The arrival of APS made me to reposition all components disconnect everything and the failure of the APS so far to do what I want it to do did not en...
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Paul SI don't have vinyl playback at the moment. My source is an MSB Platinum Data IV transport with transport power base, fed into a Metrum Hex dac. The amp is an Ars Sonum Filharmonia. So there isn't much of a power drain. Also: cabling is...
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Do you think only Russian composed stupid music to celebrate own leaders? (BTW, not all that music was stupid) Well, in US we do it as well. David Diamond (a prolific American composer and the author of 11 symphonies, dozen quarters and so on) ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
tuga wrote:I was offered for birthday by my dear mother in law the choice between Cohen live or a Tosca open air performance.It took me some time to decide because this would have been my only chance to listen to Cohen...
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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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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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[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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In continuation of the hunt for the inflames best CD-version of the Scherchen’s Westminster 1953 recording of Mozart’s Requiem I would like to inform about a new opportunity. A Paris-based couple Rene Tremine and Myriam Scherchen run a small la...
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Srajan have mentioned at his News Page (the only resource worth reading at his site) that a new CEC TL1N transport and CEC DX1N DAC become available, well available in civilized countries like Poland not in the countries were the fucked up distributo...
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With all magnificence of the new 924++ DAC it have entered the second week of the Nichicon KZ playbook. It was completely predictable and highly expected and now the DAC sound very funny.
The bass is fully developed already. The DA924 always was phe...
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Funny, but the FM Acoustics house sound is not bad at the shows and salons where I have heard it. They like to list their"name" customers, including "big names" from the "music industry". Well, the music/recording industry was the inventor of the s...
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[quote user="manisandher"]I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more tha...
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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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Well, this basement is certainly not a basement with “sweaty
walls and floors”. It is perfectly finished and in addition to everything it
has its own (not just a zone but asset of completely dedicated and isolated
from the rest of the house...
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I know, I know… It is light, it is pop, it is not serious, it is glitzy … but not when Hermann Scherchen does it! As many times I heard it I always was shocked how a magnificents of an interpretation could convert a peace into a totally new music. (A...
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[quote user="el`Ol"] ….I loved eastern European recordings because of their far less damped concert halls…. [/quote]
el`Ol, you are most likely is a German or some kind of central European. If you so like the sound of eastern European under-da...
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[quote user="steverino"]We are talking about subjective reactions so there is no way to dispute either of our responses. [/quote] Of cause we do talk about subjective reactions. I do not see that we “dispute” reactions but we rather exchange reaction...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Lbjefferies7 wrote:Interesting.When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Go...
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OK,
the Onegin’55 broadcast went through and was recorded. I asked Clark to figure out what they would be using as sources. He was not able to but he made me “happy” informing me that “the broadcast -- due to a temporary glitch -- will be compresse...
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I was listening the Opera it last night and then returned back to the Prince Gremin aria – there was a true fascination HOW the Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto he did the celebrated Gremin’s story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9MZ3nacrk
Princ...
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Tomorrow MET will be broadcasting Barenboim leading MET with Tristan and Isolde. It has been run for 2 weeks I has generally a good reception.
http://www.operainfo.org/
I would certainly love to see James Leven in there but it is what it is. ...
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With my FM recordings and with my few other sources to get digital uncompressed files I come to the situation that I need to rearrange the data stoppage for my Digital Audio Workstation (hate the word DAW but it is what they use). I have currently ar...
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I added another 1T drive to my DAW (the 88/24 fills space fast) and I came to an interesting problem.
I have a few drives to store the recordings on my DAW: orchestral drive, chamber drive, instrumental drive, opera drive, recording drive. I store ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
oxric wrote:By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage in the cha...
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[quote user="steverino"]I always thought that Stokowski was very attuned to Mussorgsky. I think he was the first conductor of the original Boris Godunov version by Mussorgsky as opposed to the R-K orchestration. His Boris Suites are a good "synthesis...
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Mozart's Magic Flute. What else should be said? Many “simple people” consider it as one of the greatest opera… Well, I always find it… almost annoying.
A few days I watched a strange production of Magic Flute that I liked a lot and even more that on...
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