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The brilliant Norman Lebrecht in his wonderful book “Life and Death of Classical Music...” agreed with Arthur Schnabel who insisted that recordings are “against the very nature of performance by eliminating contact between player and listener, dehuma...
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The brilliant Norman Lebrecht in his wonderful book “Life and Death of Classical Music...” agreed with Arthur Schnabel who insisted that recordings are “against the very nature of performance by eliminating contact between player and listener, dehuma...
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Peter Szendy is a serious and sympathetic thinker. Judging from this conversation with Mladen Dolar https://youtu.be/IcjwgXQ7QwM?si=yzr5rigLEjT9DT0vhis book Listen: A History of our Ears, promises to be a good read. From the jacket blurb:“…where exac...
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I was thinking about this when posting on the "deathbed audio wisdom" thread, where I said that to accept that there is a distinction between live performances and recordings, make peace with the notion, and derive the greatest pleasure from both bei...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Last night I was listening Zubin Mehta’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.9. It was his first recoding from 1966 with Vienna. I am not a big fun of this performance all together but it has spectacular first movement...
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...I nominate Mengelberg's as the finest overall. Unfortunately it does not include his utterly transcendent studio recording of the Sixth.clark...
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As usual, they leave out the VacuTrace, by far the best modern day tube tester. Same with the Alan Douglas book (who claims to be an expert in the field). They both mention the Sofia, however - a machine plagued with problems - as th...
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Hi Romy, Have you ever thought of trying to build or have built for you a SE OTL? You know that there is one on the market from the company transcendent sound using multiple 6C19PI output triodes? Perhaps a few of these 12C42C tubes would...
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Oh, and there's one more transcendent thing that recorded music will never be able to do; there are few things that appear to me more erotic than Valkyrian female cellists with flowing locks and silk ballgowns rocking their instruments back and forth...
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The Merriam-Webster defines haunting as lingering in the consciousness and in some cases having a disquieting effect. So, I wonder is anybody experienced any unexplained haunting experiences in audio? I do not mean the "transcendent" events that you...
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[quote user="zako"]l find that the posessions of grand audio equipment never came close to the presentation of a live full orchestra concert[/quote]
I am sure you have seen zillion of the similar comments and many discussions on the subject at...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]...I nominate Mengelberg's as the finest overall. Unfortunately it does not include his utterly transcendent studio recording of the Sixth.clark[/quote]Sadly, the sound quality of older, mono recordings usually puts me off ...
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I was truing to figure out what was my most impressive musical experience in just past year. After a little consideration and without naming the nominees I'm declaring the winner: Brahms Symphony #4 by Sir John Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker du...
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hi romy
just a few words since we are leaving on saturday for a month off; I am no DJ listener : the patricians shake the rafters with 18 watts but I am still trying to improve their sound since I have heard them w<ith a transcenden...
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Agreed Paul,I do not collect and have no desire to collect old Shaded Dogs, etc. just because they are original pressings. I have a few mint 1S pressings, but I never listen to them, because I have no interest in the content. My approach is to go out...
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Well, on your London trip you could certainly visit, or stay at, The Lanesborough, and smoke some really good cigars whilst reclining in a leather-backed armchair in a library. It's very pleasurable to recline in this bar on Hyde Park corner, watchin...
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Yes, I have a few acquaintances who have damned the vinous pearls that I've cast before them with the very faintest of praise. One said that a 1990 Montrachet Ramonet was "as good as Cloudy Bay". Actually, although the Mouton was pretty special, alon...
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Romy,Thank you. Now that you mention it, perhaps 85% of the stateroom in question was indeed beneath the waterline, meaning that the potential for unruly resonances was perhaps less than I had at first assumed. The front and rear walls of the room we...
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Hi,
Thanks for the info about transformers. It is as I expected, however, that these passive devices are not passive sonically at all. I agree with you that the higher quality of the transformers should lessen the effects I noted (if not elimi...
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[quote user="martinshorn"]So thinking stereophile was there thursday... [/quote]Reichert mentions Saturday twice in the article. Not that is really matters. He did not like them, the youtube video sounds horrible but you heard something interesting...
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[quote user="dady"]Hello everyone, the series of that Rundfunk symphony from Stuttgart and I think they are from a different label than the one he used when he was last married with his own orchestra here were from EMI and already had the label of hi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dady wrote:Hello everyone, the series of that Rundfunk symphony from Stuttgart and I think they are from a different label than the one he used when he was last married with his own orchestra here were from EMI and already...
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Many will recall the old statement, give enough monkeys
typewriters, and give them enough time, you will have all the great books.
Well, I, for one, do not plan to oversee this enterprise, which fails to prove anything
because it simply posts ...
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Having listened for a while with the tubes, I have come to some conclusions. The three tubes I have seriously listened to are: Kron, Sophia, and Emission Labs. All the tubes are much better than any other modern 2A3 tubes I have tried. I felt my in...
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NEW! CD-1180(4) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Evelyne Crochet, pianoCD 1 : Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues I to XV (Total time: 65:45) CD 2: Book 1 - Preludes and Fugues XVI to XXIV Book 2 - Preludes and Fugues...
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A few months ago, in May of last year in the thread about Listening Rooms and Composers and How to play Bruckner Sound on Audio I have complained that my room is not what I was looking for as I was hoping to have Bruckner Room but I need up with...
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David Hurwitz is wonderful, but I have said in my video that
I have some very fundamental disagreements with him. It is not his selection, recommendations
or reasoning, this would be a normal agreement of disagreement that would be
perfectly fine ...
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