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Stumbled onto this 2018 bio-pic on cable TV last night. Wow! For those who can't get enough of Maria Callas, this is a must. The best parts for me were performances I had not seen/heard before. My God, she was spectacular!Paul S...
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Do not believe me, I do not believe myself! I would like to tell you honestly that if this thing would be said by other person I would accept it as a pure BS because I have no reasoning to believe that it might be true…. but it is what actually what ...
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Hi Romy,Did you ever buy this? I purchased on amazon.UK for 12€ (!) including shipping in case you are interested.I hope the pressings are decent.R Weissman...
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A wonderful 100 minutes, 43meg presentation by brilliant Charles Handelman providing an “affectionate comparing” between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi performances.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d3ez2mlmxxm
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Do not believe me, I do not believe myself! I would like to tell you honestly that if this thing would be said by other person I would accept it as a pure BS because I have no reasoning to believe that it might be true…. but it is what actually what ...
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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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There is a tendency in Hi-Fi to name audio products and audio companies after some big manes in music.
Audio Artistry's Beethoven, Linkwitz’s Beethoven-Grand, Vienna Acoustics’ Mozart, Audio Analogue’s Paganini, dCS’ Verdi and dCS’ Elgar, Vienna Aco...
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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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Stumbled onto this 2018 bio-pic on cable TV last night. Wow! For those who can't get enough of Maria Callas, this is a must. The best parts for me were performances I had not seen/heard before. My God, she was spectacular!Paul S...
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Wish list;A mid-bass horn for my Altec 515-8G drivers operating from 100-600hz (it seems only Santa can make this for me)a new CD-player as my STuder A730 is kapputa collection of bruckner LPs (i don't have any!)a new listening chair to replace my IK...
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Yes, Gergiev’s version of Queen of Spades probably in the top of the list but only as there is nothing else available. Gergiev is in my view a very good opera conductor but he has no good singers in his disposal. Do not get me wrong, the singer with...
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True enough, Romy, and who knows, there might be a day or a late night when it sounds no different or even better with the wall power. Meantime, there is just no down side to using the battery for the iDAT-44+, despite my bad experience with th...
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Hmmm...I have not heard David speak about opera, but I am very used to musicologists deconstructing a performance, and/or "leaving out" certain "human aspects" of a given performance or part of a performance, and I can certainly see where this might ...
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I picked recently a newly-premastered version of “I Puritani” from 1973 (Universal MCAD3-80356) . Julius Rudel leads London Philharmonic with Ambrosian Opera Chorus. The lead singers are, Ricardo Cassinelli, Nicolai Gedda and of course Beverly Sills....
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The events of the last 3 days are incredibly stupid, incredibly interesting and very educational. During the last few days I have discovered some very interesting phenomena, ok might be no a phenomena but a behavior, th...
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As I understand it the Silbatone amplifiers are, in part, the work of JC Morrison. Although very nicely made, its hard to judge if they have any serious intention of selling them. I don't think there is any commercial imperative to do that just as th...
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The only “contemporary “stereo records that I love in past was by Rafael Kubelik with Fischer-Dieskau, Giacomotti and Bergonzi. The orchestral part of that La Scala play is amassing. Still, in my view it is not the best Rigoletto and mono recor...
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It is imposable do not love Giacomo Puccini. Would it be possible do not be in awe of Tosca? Among the numerous performances of this opera that I have on my shelves there are many great. The De Sabata’s La Scala performance from 1953 with Callas, Di ...
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I relay do not know what is in the mine of those idiots. Generally Westerns companies when they do multiple re-mastering of the same peace they try to make it better. With Russian is it looks like not there case
In 90s EMI released on CD the indispe...
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I do not mean to set up a discussion about apriori categories, etc. Rather, I mean to drag the notion of differences back to audio and some of my original observations. I am thinking of systems I have heard that seemed to heighten on...
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Eventually, I had a chance to spend last night with up and running new Milq (no tweeters was involved at this point). As I said before, the major fight was around the MF channel and I feel I did found a good configuration where the MF channel takes a...
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Sorry, I should have said by now that my (15" Audax PR380M) bass units are FLAT to 38 Hz, and then they roll off naturally at 24 dB below that, meaning if I have 38 Hz @ 100 dB, then ~30 Hz is still >88 dB, and obviously 20 Hz is still p...
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Nope is it now what extraterrestrials would love but rather we would be able to offer to them to demonstrate what our Earth Classical Music (let say Western music) is all about.
When in 1977 Voyager was sent into deep space then the golden phonograp...
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Norman Lebrecht writes:"Like the final track on Sergeant Pepper, like the Beatles themselves, the end for EMI came with a sob and a sigh. At tea-time on Monday, the world’s oldest record company declared losses of £264 million and no hope of re...
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Robert,
I think you completely misunderstood my comment and my complain about the high price of the Feastrex drivers. Chris Widmer does not understand it as well not to mention that his attempt to explain the high price of Feastrex sound too b...
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A wonderful 100 minutes, 43meg presentation by brilliant Charles Handelman providing an “affectionate comparing” between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi performances.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d3ez2mlmxxm
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Ronny, it is funny because I was juts about to carve my further observations about the Sound of my monitors. Last night I was listening Rigoletto by Callas and Gobbi on my monitor. I come to an interesting observation that I would like Monitors...
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Well, I was thinking about that “Resonating Oops” for a while. I made quite a number of experiments. I some cases I was able to get interesting results but the “Resonating Oops” is very illusive. I do know that many readers of my site have wrong perc...
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To facts:
1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692
sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...
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A week or so ago I spoke with a friend of my - he is a perfectly rational and sane person. I send his some music and was asking what was he as thinking about it. He admitted that among the music I sent him he admitted that did not get opera. I was pu...
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