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I agree that from absolute point of view "yellow driver with wings" is not a great solution. But, there is many types of yellow drivers with quite different specs and a few types of "wings" also exist. I'm not going to deffend this kind of imp...
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Meow, meow, meow!
I was today a good kitty and I have a wonderfully purring section today. The WHRB broadcasted today Grieg string quartet. I do not know what the bad was playing but here is what I did not record it but here is what I managed ...
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Let's be precise that the overtones (harmonics) from most musical tones contain All the notes of the scale at some point in the series. The major third is there and the minor third is there. The difference is simply their relative position in the ser...
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[quote user="Jorge"]I guess you cannot say you listened to a horn system if you dont have an upper bass horn. [/quote]Yes, I can very much concur with it. The upperbass and MF horns set the frame of the sound, sort of sonic skeleton upon which everyt...
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Operas: Veronika, Tagensanbruch, Cornelia Faroni
Symphonies: Séquences, Orphikon
3 Requiems: Pro memoria patris, Pro memoria patriae, Pro memoria Uxoris, also cantatas, masses, songs…
3 for concertos for violin, a concerto for flute, a concerto fo...
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The whole room (L-shaped) is larger as you all noticed, but as Roman saw in my Blog , the listening space is smaller - i.e. about 6,5 x 4,5 meters with low 2,70 ceiling - and is a perennial work in progress... yes, the Stereo Lab 1000 hz is a true wa...
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[quote user="Lbjefferies7"]I suppose WTC is properly in the first group, but I was playing my beloved Richter 1970 performance. The gorgeous, aqueous, lucid, somehow Mozartian playing just did not work on a inferior setup. I think that Bosendor...
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Brahms: “Double” Concerto
(d) Zino Francescatti, Violin; Pierre Fournier, Cello; Columbia Symphony Orchestra
November 20, 1959; American Legion Hall
• LP: Columbia ML 5493; Stereo: Columbia MS 6158
• CD: CBS/...
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[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] I listened to his Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra today. I have only one performance of this piece, with Rostropovich/Svetlanov/Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and was wondering if anyone knew any other valua...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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Hey, David, it is nice to see you around – the heavy musical artillery came eventually to my site.
Regarding Casals, yes it might be sentimental but he should be heard on 78s or with better transfer to appreciate completely his “complexity”. Still I...
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I have to confess a sin - I was listening today the Myaskovsky’s cello concerto 5 times. It is not that I got hooked on Myaskovsky but Amphissa was right - Myaskovsky does have his own unique voice.
Myaskovsky is kind of a mix between Prokofi...
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[quote user="drdna"][quote user="Romy the Cat"]So, what I am talking about is ability for an amp to have some kind of inner-algorithm that dynamically and actively “color” or better to say “dye” signals, still maintaining general color-neutral tenden...
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The following reflects the current state of my understanding, and in some cases, my opinion... I welcome and very much value other points of view.Max, regarding B&W and Color : Actually we do agree here ; I did not write (nor mean to suggest) tha...
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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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Yes, I very frequently observe this effect. I hear sometimes on air something that make me to call to the station and ask with version it was played and then to my sadness I realized that they play the LP or CD that I have and that does not produce t...
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The current musical director of Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra David Robertson is long subject of my interest and admiration. Some of the live “bootleg” recording of him I have are truly stunning.
http://www.instantencore.com/contributor...
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There was a big room in there with big Schweikert speakers (with thier grainy and insultingly confident Sound), some king of not particularly good electronics and the entire EMM Labs’ front-end. Many rooms at the show used EMM Labs so-call preamplifi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]FM Acoustics’s Manuel
Humber speaks about his Harmonic Linearizer device. It is very possible that this FM Acoustics preamp is a fine
unit and that it does better than other EQ solutions but why the EQ solution
shale be...
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Pierre, yes, I understand it. It kind or irrelevant what they destined for and yes, in domestic applications in context of low power we can use it lower. What I am saying is that as we do use it at extreme low range we deal with slightly overdamped d...
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It is it; I officially close my books on my Shelter as I refuse to understand what it does. I pulled today from my shelf my collection of earliest Denon PCM recordings on LP the Denon record in end of the 78s. I generally do not like this entire seri...
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Gluttons for punishment, Mark and I went to the Newport
Beach audio thing-ee again this year. Generally, I was most struck by how much
lower audio expectations seemed to be, even lower than last year. It seemed
like it’s sunk to the poin...
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David, are you around. A day after tomorrow my Local WHRB broadcast Myaskovsky Orgy. The have internet feedhttp://www.whrb.org/Thursday, December 3
1:00 pm MYASKOVSKY AND THE SOVIET SYMPHONY
Born in 1881, Nikolai Myaskovsky witnessed and re...
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Yep, the “32 short films about Glenn Gould” was a wonderful film, a classic how the films about musicians shell be done. It is interesting that there are very few good films about music and there are very moments where cinematograph works “right” wit...
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For the sake of helpfullness, I think that we may separate the differences of the ported speaker designs of myself and Petar. What I have described is the standard, pedistrian model of a vented speaker. Petar's is a hybrid aperiodic-...
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Yep, it is a wonderful work. I heard it but kind of overlooked it but your mentioning made me to review my attention. BTW, Ravel has even greater work: The Trio for piano, violin and cello is. I juts was playing my live recording from WGBH’s st...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]Tears theory: interesting... BUT, most important, and this REALLY find me fully agreeing, you named my very "King of the Orchestra": Its Majesty the Double-Bass![/quote]
It you like contrabass then in context of this thread...
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[quote user="steverino"]
"many tuning geeks today still find that [equal] temperament loathsome."Of course tuning geeks don't like equal temperament. And of course a capella musicians will settle into just intonation if they can get away wi...
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[quote user="twogoodears"]It, unfortunately, happens to me when I'm REALLY enjoying music... without shame, slow, heavy tears which I leave rolling on my face 'til they're cold. [/quote]
It has nothing to do with unfortunately or fortunately. ...
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A few months back a guy from Europe showed up at this site proposing to sell a set Vitavox K15/40 and Vitavox S2 drivers. I did not need them, I have my own stash, not one looks like needed us as well. In a couple months he reinstated that the dr...
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