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Below is the text from Slovens Website that presumably knows Anton Nanut. According to them Mr. Nanut did record the Beethoven Nineth. Interesting is that Nanut also record Dvorak’s last symphonies, Jerry, are they interesting in Slovenian rendering?...
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well,well, well.Big words.If the Marriot played the music from the Sound Liaison Label,in their elevators with a good sound system, I'd be riding that Thing all day.But that's the beauty of music,diversity.and Glen Gould,of course,no surpassing that,...
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zztop7 The vast
majority of time that I hear I violin, it is too harsh. I like a sweet
tone. The major problem is that a violin must Cut through a vast hall;
Stradivarius[?plural] are known for this.I have built instruments ...
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The only reason I don't have a giant WE system is that I can't afford it and I don't have room. I sold all of my WE and Lansing field coil gear to my Silbatone friend back in 1989, because I know he would never sell it, he was putting together a ser...
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Steinway Lyngdorf loudspeaker company has a new model that they call of cause the System D.
http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/Model_D-45.aspx
http://www.steinwaylyngdorf.com/files/billeder/Steinway/Papers/Model-D.jpg
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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Pandora's Magic BoxRestoration of the music's dynamic range in historical recordings by: Pierre A. Paquin
We are now able to enjoy great recording of the distant past, thanks to the efforts of several successful and dedicated engineers who have had...
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[This is a repost from Audio Asylum -- Music Lane]
Not to mince words, I have five. And this from a guy who usually disdains such collections. But there are exceptions.
-- Schnabel. (Of course) But he can be overly fierce.
-- Claude Fran...
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The history of stereophonic sound
1881 - Clement Adler at the Paris Electrical Exhibition put "a series of 80 telephone transmitters across the stage at the Paris Opera and connected them by wires to telephone receivers in a suite of four rooms" in ...
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I have lived with the Koetsu Onyx Platinum also and I agree. I did not really enjoy it very much in my system no matter what I did. However, honestly, when I first heard Koetsu many years ago (it was a Rosewood Pro IV), I was really drawn...
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A Seminar presented by Greg Burnett at Audio Fest 2004, Colorado Audio Society
by John HaralsonOctober 9, 2004
Why are audiophiles interested in FM radio? Because the quality of FM audio was satisfying until stations began to compete with each othe...
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National Philharmonic of Russia in Escondido by George Weinberg-Harter
Once I heard a radio interview with the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who had left what was then the Soviet Union to become conductor of our own National Symphony...
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Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould By EDWARD ROTHSTEINMarch 12, 2007
Was that relief I felt as the piano was playing? A feeling that some worry had been alleviated or a fear quieted? Why then was it also mixed with disappointment, as i...
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Golovanov Musical Portraitby Olga Fyodorova
…In 1948 the Bolshoi Opera was rehearsing Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Nikolai Golovanov steering the orchestra through the difficult score of this operatic evergreen…
“Louder! Lou...
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 19, 2005
Baltimore Symphony appoints AlsopFOSTER KLUGAssociated Press
BALTIMORE - Marin Alsop was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony on Tuesday, overcoming vigorous dissent by ...
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I'm a new reader of your website and one subject which interests me a lot is that of upper bass horns.As you have noted time and again (with which I agree almost completely, after reading a lot of 'research' [many claiming to defy the laws of physics...
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There was a good article about this very subject in 2004. You have to pay to use the NYT's archives, but one of Michael Green's disciples quoted it on their website, and they didn't get sued for copyright, so I guess it is OK to post it here:
If ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] I feel I am being objective when I say that a Mirrophonic system simply blows away Altec, Vitavox, TAD, etc. [/quote]
Joe, I am not a reader of your magazine and the phrase like “blows away” impress me very little. P...
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Here is a VERY interesting paper http://www.anstendig.org/Stereo.htmlSTEREO: A MISUNDERSTANDINGTHE THEORY, SOUND-SYSTEMS, AND PROBLEMS OF HEARINGThere is a common misconception that the addition of stereophonic sound-reproduction was the necessary, c...
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State-of-the-art Orchestra: 32 Loudspeakers
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David Dominique
“Ahem. Is this on? [two taps on the microphone]”
Thus began Mark Applebaum’s Pre-Composition, the concert openeron Friday, December 10th for H...
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rowuk wrote:
I laugh my ass off. I would love to play two different trumpets for these special p...
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[quote user="rowuk"]I guess there are many types that come here to GoodSoundClub. Some to "brag", some to "share", some to "police", some just to learn.
I guess if your turntable is so important to you, then you could at least tell us ho...
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In Praise of Infidelity
by BYRON JANIS (!!!)
Wall Street Journal, todayhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904574638380890512334.html
In an interview last April, before his performance of Wagner's "Lohengr...
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CD-1124(2) J.S. BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES. BWV 812-817, selected Preludes, BWV 923, 999, 815a, and three Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by David Cates, harpsichord. CD1 49:38; CD2 45:22. DDD UPC #0-17685-112...
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Today, at Mravinsky's birthday I publish a good article by Rob Barnett: the Classical Editor of the UK-based http://www.musicweb.uk.net. Rob gives a brief observation of the 20 CDs Melodia's box-set with Mravinsky's recordings.
MRAVINSKY Edition ...
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The problems with Smart Grids
by B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase...
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