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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
The only valuable foe myself history lesson I took after Jonathan Weiss visit was Jonathan’s quote. It was where we were sitting in his listening rooms and I was making one of few very fruitless attempts to explain to h...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]“Art Dudley said it best in Listener for Winter 1997: "Audio reviewing is dead."[/quote] I do not think that this is correct. Audio reviewing is not only not dead but it is the only thing that audio industry has left i...
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Software developers for years employ object-oriented methodologies (OO) for application design. Leaving aside some “conceptually pure” OO’s issues and problems, it would be worth to mention that OO methods share with audio reviewing the very sa...
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Thinking recently about reviewing I come upon to an interesting observation. No mater how subjective music is (or at least what they say) but still looking at the music review we see way more objective picture then in the world of audio reviews. Musi...
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We see two errors here also.
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] Very often a reviewer will find an item at a show that he wants to review, or a manufacturer will approach him, of a friend will tell him about some thing. In fact, those happen more often tha...
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[quote user="Gregm"]I used an inexpensive dsp ....I had excellent response from the auditorium.[/quote]Yes, I hear what you say but still - “the excellent response from the auditorium” is quite meaningless judgment. Well, it is all depends what the o...
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I have a cousin who is autistic. He is happy most of the time but he isn't really able to communicate his feelings to anyone else. He is also a very talented musician who plays the violin & piano very well. There are many interesting aspect...
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Interesting that a notion of an Absolutely Transparent Stage is kind of bizarre. Let presume that we do have an Absolutely Transparent, musically and sonically, stage. The stage might be transparent only with own enclosed scope. If a stage modifies t...
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Another free audio web publication: The Audio Critic. I think they use to be printed publication but nowadays they switch to web. The Audio Critic never were interesting and always were concentrated on promoting poorly performing audio. I am not sure...
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Actually I use Koussevitzky 1949 version of Tchaikovsky’s IV (first movement) to assess my mono analog. There is not doubts in my mind that any more or less serious records enthuses much have a dedicated mono cartridge, preferably permanently install...
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I wonder if you have tried different players to listen to mp3 streams. Maybe you're listening the wma stream.These pieces for violin and piano they're playing right now are wonderful (12:50 your time). I didn't know them. Thanks again...
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Ironically the more interesting from my point of view in Gieseking is not his music but the way how he approached musical pieces, the way how he practiced. If to look deeper then you will see some similarity between that Gieseking’s rehearsal ceremon...
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[quote user="zako"]Look in the mirror moron...Youngsters like you allways make the misstake they know every thing,,But know nothing about anything..Go back and beat on your drum in the jungle,,,Live audio allways beats out reproduced audio..I hope yo...
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HolaAs in High-end audio world we don't have our HiFi doctors arrived yet; I think it is best to share hereI am trying to describe my disease symptoms ...-The word HiFi, High-end, do not erect me anymore.-I avoid myself try making any changes on my ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] ...Yes, one more thing, very important. If you use your wife for the screen holding then do not forget to buy her a pearl necklace after the experiment. This will lubricate the sound in your listening room and make it less...
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Roger Skoff: “A cool half million dollars for a pair of speakers! Certainly impressive, but is it sustainable” Well, the question about sustainability and reference to the Death Spiral is a good one. However I have more interesting question to ask: w...
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Well, it is sad but all across internet, and at this site (http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=20851) there are comments about pure Purepower service and problems with Purepower units that they "improve". I kind of sympathize w...
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Different “audio journalists” here and there with awe noted
the Lamm, Kubala-Sosna, Emm, TechDAS, Verity room at CES 2015 that reportedly mark one million dollars of equipment
in the room.
http://audiofederation.com/blog/page/5
I am sure that...
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It looks like PS Audio release their new most powerful
regenerator P20. It is 2KW, $10K and they sell it honestly: free in-home trial.
As readers of my site know I am not a proponent of type regeneration that PS
Audio does. The Class AB regenerati...
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This product was discontinued but I still use several with my PP units. It was a balun to reduce common mode noise without limiting current. It does seem to help. One of the perplexing aspects of the double conversion devices is that they reduce ...
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Jarek,
Thank you for your input. This is nice to have a somehow a list of good connectors.
Today I found Wireworld Pro Audio[1] sell "Silver-clad OFC" connectors (they call plugs). I n...
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The way I understand it, power line "regenerators"/noise scrubbers pretty much have to be optimized for a specific load/application, and "off-the-shelf" units are compromized, by comparison. Who actually "optimizes UPS/power scrubbers for audio"? Sur...
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After the tragically story that took place last week witch a local fool who fancy him a tuner master
(Here, and a couple of posts after this: http://www.RomyTheCat.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=11242 )
I brought the Schwarz home and learned tha...
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[quote user="mjloudspeaker"] Romy the Cat wrote:I have to admit that some of my opponents might consider my organizational views on high-end audio too socialistic and will recognize in my view some residues of me growing up in socialistic society. Le...
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What is the most interesting is how all those completely lucid commentaries about Dannoy are off the mark in my view. Do not get me wrong, there is nothing expressed here is bad but all it describes how to get a “balanced” sound Dannoy configuratio...
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Sure, we can "overcome" the "sonic obstacles" and wind up in Audio Heaven, and there seems to be any number of ways this can happen. I really wish I knew how to make this continuous! Of course, many experienced people have sung the praises of Dr. Gaw...
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A few days ago, enjoy the music side published an article about future of audio, run the author was trying to predict what will be this guy and other in future. I read just two paragraphs at do not read anymore as I am not interested in the persp...
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Easy to understand people investing in playback that includes a sense of space. In my own case, the more "space" I get, the more I want... to a point. So far, I have not been willing to sacrifice Musical power and density to get more "spatial cues". ...
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MF Audio is the consumer product offshoot of S&B
Brian....
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