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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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Well, Romy, it took me a while but I finally got the cobwebs cleared out of the phono stage, and the Shostakovich 10th was totally engaging as music (via the TAP). The recording is the (late 60s) Melodiya (stereo) with Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Syp...
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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="Stitch"]TKD has also high quality Parts which are not listed in the catalogue. I heard, some personal contact can be helpful to get their best units. They will be built on custom order only, in batches, when they made it, it is done. Pri...
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Hi, WojtekAs soon as you find a sonically-comparable amp that's less trouble, please let me know. At this point it does appear that a certain amount of vigilance is part of the price of admission.Of course I was (mostly) joking about losing the...
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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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The thought of an arrary of images well forward of the speakers is troubling, but - other factors being equal - I love it when I get +/- that sort of thing behind the speakers along with sound energy from the "performance" th...
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An Audio Amplifier Design Philosophy
By David Berning ( Courtesy Meta-Gizmo.com )
I became interested in audio at a very young age because I liked music, but was too uncoordinated to be able to p...
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6moon published the news: June 2014 - DIYers unite - Vitavox HiFi announce the launch of their Constructor Series bass enclosures. "For home builders constructing their own multi-way horn systems, the bass enclosure is often the most daunting prospec...
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As late as the 1960s every self-respecting hi-fi nut had a "secret recipe" for "speaker dope". My own guru would not give me his exact recipe for speaker dope but insisted that developing the stuff was a rite of passage I had to go th...
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LaurentAlthough I have whined that the ML2 requires "tweaking" to get its best, the truth is that it is closer to the dream of acceptable "plug and play" performance than any amp I have ever used. Which is a long preamble to saying I am hardly an ex...
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Jorge, not to stoop to a shopping list, but I thought I also mentioned the 375 in the post where I introduced Rullit. Anyway, I meant to. Since there is no mention of the 375 there now, I will drop it again. This was the driver I lusted after in my...
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I agree that it sounds unlikely, hence the incredulity factor (?!?) in the header. However, I admit being facinated, in a morbid sort of way.Each individual channel/track seems to come "down a chute" about 1 1/2 octaves wide, with each channel/t...
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Jorge,I would hope that the specifications of the Fane 8M drivers would not depart from the specifications of the old 8Ms that you have helpfully attached here. I just sent the pdf file to your email directly, not having seen that you had posted it h...
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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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Hi Romy, Just a couple comments on recorded quality and dvds. If you have a chance try to find the DVD called Eroica put out by the BBC a couple of years ago. It is a quasi-reinactment of Beethoven's unveiling of his new masterpiece...
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I think we are speaking about different things, you speak about real High End which should be best possible sound quality to serve a musical purpose, and I'm speaking about a High End industry which doesn't give a damn about musical performance, beca...
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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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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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“…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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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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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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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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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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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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Robin, my live venue preferences are similar to yours. I was thinking about how we deal with the sound matrix in our listening rooms, based on the variables we are presented with. I remember when I gave no thought to soundstage and little thought abo...
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