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I have an old idea I like to call "The Stranger". This is where the person in question trades on "foreign" ideas, often via a "second language". My favorite example is "Mike", a guy from Naples who cannot seem to get handle on English nor can he g...
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Due to some non-audio events in my life I do a lot of cooking nowadays. What I find lately is that cooking is in way very similar to designing playback system. I did say it before it before but nowadays it hit me with new level of truthfulness. You s...
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If you one of those who feel that playback make difference then I do not think that better playing of Bruckner music would require any different playback efforts than an y other better playback. Still, practicing “better playback” and loving t...
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[quote user="Paul S"]The frustrating thing for me while messing with the mounting screw tensions was that there was never a universal "best" setting that involved looseness, but it would all change with different sources or at different volume settin...
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[quote user="Axel"] I have hundreds of records and the one mentioned seemed the outstanding example. [/quote]
I do not find the example outstanding in any way. In the same adagio there are dozens of moments that I would like to be played in a ...
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There is a very scarce effect in nature I will try to explain, a sort of sense explosion. One of this happens sometimes in food tasting.
When you have a very tasty, very good cheese and you take a couple of bites and it grabs your tongue and i...
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Somebody “MichaelV8” posted in Audio Sewers a question: “Did Stereophile essentially abandon classical music in the 1990’s?”
“Posted by MichaelV8 on December 22, 2010 at 07:47:14
Yes, is my take. They still employ Richard L...
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I a very much am sitting on sidewalk of audio. 10 years back I was paying attention to mainstream media, was buying and evaluating audio equipment, traveling around the country and around the world listening different installations, maintaining g...
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I know that in audio we use fucked-up terminology that over the course of years audio propaganda pimps of all calibers impended into minds of feeble audio people. High-End Audio in today world means nothing that what I feel, is it possible to cle...
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In thins thee I will be talking a bit about the things that unfortunately seldom spoken in audio - about Timbres. It will be an installment of a few posts most likely and I will be uploading them as I have time and mood.
In my teens I was a c...
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Ehh, what do you know – I subscribe the TAS last week. I think I did it 7 years back but I was wondering if it be some kind of fun. I got my first issues a few days back and made an attempt to read it. Funny but I do not exactly understand what they ...
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I do feel that during the last 3-4 years there was a major shift in my perception of audio. If before the people who do not share my interests in audio just entertained me with own stupidity then a few years back I begin to feel that they starte...
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This is a very interesting issue you raised. I would say that before audio designers could proceed in such a textbook manner they would have to be able to recreate original sounds in any given environment. (I'm limiting the discussion here to acousti...
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Last night, leaving the MET HD re-broadcast, the Willy Decker’s production of La Traviata, (what a stunning performance of Natalie Dessay as Violetta!!!) I under impression of the performance asked Amy what she would do if she has 2 hours to live. Re...
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Wine is very much like audio, as a matter of fact. I was a wine merchant for 10 years before my present occupation; when I started, I enjoyed wine a great deal and typically spent $30ish per bottle, occasionally ramping it up a little for special occ...
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Recently I was traveling and
spoke with an audio guy. He advised that I need to stop by to listen his
playback. I ask why he thinks his playback is worthy to listen. He gave me a
long list of expensive and industry-reputed component that forme...
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I got three amassing audio feelings lately.
This November was certainly the month to remember. Hospitalizing with Kitty in November 7, giving birth to baby and then staying in hospital with them to the beginning of...
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Let leave music alone. I am taking about pure audio and I do
not need the "ordinary suspects" to drop public tears and shriek that audio is all about music. If I decided to waste one of my evenings during a Seattle or Singapore
visits and to spend ...
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This thread is becoming more and more similar to threads in Audiogon and other look like sites.
But I agree with below comments
Anyway my maxim is:
beware of hifi salesmen (or self-appointed 'experts' o...
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Audio Alchemy was a maker of budget priced gear back in the mid 90s that was somewhat better sounding than much equivalent gear. That would be enough to earn them enmity in the audio business. Of course they had virtually no quality control which hu...
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The name of this thread a bit cryptic and need to be explained, as the Alzheimer in my vocabulary means slightly different things then it is commonly recognized. When I was 13 years old I read a book (I do not remember what it was) that was dedi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The point is that the people who do “get” what it is all about do not need to witness chewing details and they do not need any explanations – they have own mind and own ability to discover (reinvent) the thing on their own....
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Thank you for the kind intro to your technician.
Yes, replacing the TL-0 will probably be a heartbreaking exercise. Just like there are people who own a few vintage Jaguars to cannibalize parts from one to the other, it is crazy...
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OK, it now looks like my dive in the world of PC is over and I pretty much know where I am staying. A well of so ago I was completely ignorant about the subject but now I could at least to understand what the common buzz-worlds means and able to ask ...
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Forgive my ignorance...Is there any benefit to be had from making and playing back .wav files derived from normal audio cd's? Is the damage done in making them into 'red book' audio cd's in the first place irreversible? Guy...
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It is OK, Item. It is a common for people who sell audio to be not completely informed what they are selling. That comes with territory. You might discover with time that audio is much more interning then just to dump a pile of BS on people and to ma...
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Romy says "Oppo is very
good video player. Still, it looks like it’s advantage in video are
not projected to 16Bit CD reading. Perhaps Serge was correct and reading
CD and reading the DVDs/BlueRays
are totally different...
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[quote user="Amir"]do you use microrendu?[/quote]Hi Amir, yes I use a microRendu in my office system - it replaced the NAA I spoke about in the old post that you quoted. I think I'm one of the very few owners who hasn't been drawn in by the hyperbole...
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[quote user="Amir"]Please share more information about your PC.[/quote]Amir, I have two PCs for purely audio purposes - one for my main listening room and one for my home office. The former was built commercially by Phasure (http://www.phasure.com/in...
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[quote user="manisandher"]Hi all, This thread has been a facinating read for me, and has prompted me to resurrect my old Celestion SL600 speakers. But their copper dome tweeters are looking (and sounding) rather worse for wear. Does anyone know where...
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