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Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, WaldsteinA very nice performance of the begining of Beethoven's "heroic" phase (1803-1812). Wilhelm Kempff's genius pianissimo (perhaps the best of any pianist I have heard) made the d...
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One sees this question often posed, and I think rightly so. I've been introduced to some fine music and performance by my friends and associates. In fact, they're better than reviewers!
So I was dismayed when I started off a post with...
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Recordings are listed by year of release:
"The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Emile Berliner. (ca. 1888)
Emile Berliner, the inventor of the microphone and founder of the first disc record company, lived and worked in Washi...
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This is a GREAT PERFORMANCE -- the best recording of it I know.clark...
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Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...
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Category 95:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
(An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.))Britten: Billy BuddNeil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Daniel Harding, Nathan Gunn...
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I got emails today pointing at some forum at LinkedIn. In there somebody named Patrick Mattucci – “Senior Systems Designer at Hi-Fi Sales Company” asked an interesting question:
“How would the Analog Enthusiasts among us rate today's lat...
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When you just have to hear a given performance, you do the best you can with its iteration. Of course I am talking about getting the best available version of a specific performance rather than suggesting that any old performance of a given great wo...
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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Probably like everything else, there have been better and worse attempts at capturing the Gestalt of a given performance. Maybe the best thing is to watch/listen to some performances via a few systems and decide if it might actually be less expense ...
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Thanks, DaveWhat kind front-end your tuner has?Romy, probably best I point you to a datasheet as it contains more information than I could fit in my reply :Dhttp://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/TEF6730A.pdfAny further information about the tuner f...
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Just the symptoms caused by the bad electricity, tons of tubes and other parts in various stages of decline, pins/sockets/connections, along with analog and digital source issues is the stuff of madness. I am so happy when everything works...
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The "best" TT I ever heard - by a mile - was the old Versa Dynamics, but the performance quickly deteriorated, apparently from water vapor messing up the "straight-line" arm function. Oh, well.Mass is definitely part of the answer. ...
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Also, "marketing" is not really "Something for Everyone"; rather, it's "Choose from this lot at your price point". And people continue to cruise this site with exactly that "pre-sold" mindset, that for a given amount of money they can expe...
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“Evgeny Onegin” is kind of idiosyncratically-charismatic Russian opera. As beautiful it is the “Onegin” has no typical thrill that the ordinary opera lovers accustomed to get rush upon. It has nether gipsy colors on the stage, nor masquerade grand da...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the p...
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Given that most commercially produced audio equipment is originally the work of engineers, and given that most of it doesn't perform as well as one would like then it is fair to say that engineers generally haven't succeeded in applying what they hav...
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As with the "audiophile" recordings, it is often difficult for me to separate the sound, per se, from "the way it sounds to me", in terms of content. Also, IMO, even the best "sound" cannot rescue a poor score/performance/recording/mix/processing/co...
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[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:A could years ago here and there begun to pop up small SS class “D” amplifiers made with high-end pretence. They all sounded like shit but by the efforts of a number of typically deaf and stupid or just...
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A site reader sent me last nigh a link to a Yahoo newsgroup where a guy posted at feedback about Accuphase T-1100
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FMtuners/message/66682
Here is the content of the newsgroup post:
David...
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Here is an article by Leonard Norwitz that I think some of you might find motivating. I do not know Mr. Norwitz but it sounds like dinked too mach Qvortrup’s coca-cola. Anyhow, although I do not agree with some (sometimes many) of the Mr. Norwitz’s c...
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Hi Romy,The development team like to be a little secretive when it comes to the nitty gritty of the design of the tuner. A lot of it is proprietary and follows from extensive R'nD time and cost.I think these best way to test it's performance is for ...
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I was ready to jump on the remark that each step farther away from a live broadcast was that much farther down the drain when you turned around and said what I was thinking: It can certainly happen that live recordings are better than...
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The idea has always been to get at a wide selection of the best available music whenever you want, right? How nice for you that your available FM stations actually deliver on that score.For some time, I've basically thought of my system as...
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BR, I have never used Romy's amp design, but I have used 6C33C SETs with Lowthers. I do not use my Lowthers FR, for reasons that are fully explicated throughout this site, so I don't worry about LF from those drivers. IMO, their best is MF up to tr...
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Actually, the album reads top to bottom: Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, so any re-shuffling of status was mea culpa.And, like I said, Heifetz did not even use "THE" Strad to drown the other two out with.I know it's difficult fo...
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Best wishes for Amy's performance with BPO tomorrow. I knew she was "serious" about the viola but did not realize she played with an orchestra. Pretty good for somebody who also takes care of three little kids, two cats, one Romy and a medical caree...
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Let's face it, the best paid orchestras too often avoid mistakes, and they don't really give themselves over to the Music ensemble often enough, IMO. Also it seems there are not so many conductors at any time who can really get the most from an orch...
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Romy, thanks for another nudge toward Bruckner. I was not at all aware of Schuricht before your post, and I do like what I heard of his 8th and 9th via headphones, off the computer, although I realize this is a just thumbnail version. You have said s...
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Of course this is basically propaganda. Who argues otherwise? However, I have found that it is possible at times to glean a modicum of useful information from "reviews" like this via a careful reading of what is said and somtimes via...
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