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I don't know this Steve Klein. I don't know what bullshit he uses to sell Audio Note's products in the US. If that is what you are attempting to satirise then fine.I am quite familiar with Audio Note Japan's (Kondo) products. I don't use any at the m...
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I don't think Silbatone has any obligation to 'progress' a concept in the same way that an art gallery or museum has no obligation to modify or improve on its exhibits. They are just showing what is or rather what was.For what it's worth, I do think ...
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I did not see in your post any “sad truth about BMS”I would stick in the JBL 2440. It is relatively inexpensive. Has practically the same performance as the hipped JBL 375 and all together a good performer. It’s diaphragms are wildly available and it...
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[quote user="Paul S"]"High-efficiency electrostatic speakers"??? Is this not an oxymoron? My friend, Mark, who sometimes visits and posts in this form, has gigantic Sound Lab 'stats. He hates SS, and he uses VTL Wotan tube amps to drive them, 1.200W ...
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[QUOTE]Joe still does not "get" that a playback do not impersonate the imaging of original performance event but rather create the imaging of reproductive intentions where the system arranger and certain elements of playback act as interpretive force...
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Putting together a speaker system that ticks all your boxes is a lot like doing anything else well: it is fine to experiment in order to find your range and learn your options but once you choose a path you must stick to it. Chopping and changing i...
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I thought it was a garden variety truism, if not the truth, that musiicians typically "make do" with - whatever - in the way of hi-fi.Although we "should" demand "the same thing" from hi-fi that we seek from live music, I would not be surprised if it...
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Ollie, this sounds like a rather extreme rant I indulged in myself, not long ago.To put it more succinctly this time, the problem for me is when the end "product" winds up being a signature piece from someone (or - worse - everyone) in the "supp...
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[quote]Is not about the cost of
plywood bit the placement cost if the speakers have this type wings.
Sure, for monophonic films in 40s and multitude listeners in this it was
not a problems but for contemporary stereophonic sound it make the
s...
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Hi Romy,Interesting test you have conducted. Were the responses mostly unflat near the frequency extremes or was there variations even in the midrange? The reason I ask is because if you look at most of the published curve responses it is...
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Robin, thanks for a very interesting thread. While it is really not so amazing to think of Music in these terms, it goes to show us, the unwashed masses, that no matter how closely we listen, there is always more to be heard, including these very ba...
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I have heard hundreds and hundreds of audio systems and mine is by far the best. Honestly nothing even comes close. There is a scientific reason for this. MY system starts with a PERFECTLY tuned room...something overlooked by ma...
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If you visited this site before 2004, when I conversed it to audio site then you remember that it was performances-centric site. It was structured by composers, and each (let say some) composition had a list of reported performances in descending...
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You are correct, I neither know nor expect, really, that the person from whom I bought the 6N6Ps tested them in a way that will make any difference to me, and I certainly did not buy them with any particular sense that this was the case.&nb...
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I wonder what the difference is between class A and B insulation is. Never noticed that parameter before. The 10 amp choke (I like their word reactor) must have some very large guage wire, as the resistance is really low. Clearly, b...
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Jessie, I just wanted to say that I make my own shorting jacks from the worst possible plastic Radio Shack RCA plugs and small, cheap (1/2 Watt) 100 Ohm resistors, which I solder across the +/- RCA plug connection points and then ...
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Alex,
if you still care bout the Beethoven’s symphonies then here is a sexy lead for you.
There are many-many releases of the celebrated psychedelic performance of the Ninth by Furtwangler’s in 1942. Probably the “Music and Art’s” was the best re...
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It is imposable to live in Boston…and particularly since I installed that large directional rotatable antenna on my roof and able to get everything high quality from Rhode Island to New Hampshire. The only problems that I see… is the hard drive space...
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Romy's recent post on the trials of 12-channel DSET hi-fi made me feel a little better, but his point about maintaining performance is well taken, none the less. One simply must have an aural reference and some rigorous methods for keeping things son...
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Many of the expensive power cleaners and regenerators claim that they do not limit current. None the less, many of these devices do seem to go into a swoon as current demands increase. We all remember the days when these devices were widely con...
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Since my last post to this thread I have listened to a few more versions of Ein deutsches Requiem, and I plan to share my thoughts about some of them, starting with the best so far. This is the 1940 live performance by the Concertgebouw Orchestra wi...
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I stopped by today during my lunch at my local “loony Tunes” and suddenly stumbled upon a LYS reissue (via the Dante Production) of Golovanov’s 1948 Boris Godunov. (LYS 349-351)
I have mentioned this performance above. It is a studio recoding where ...
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As I play the old-but-new-to-me ML2s more, and as I slowly replace tubes, performance has changed a lot, and all for the better. Understand that I am not really talking about the ML2s, but about the sound I am getting, which is so different and...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Andy, I will say right away that I am not at all set up to "exploit" online music, but this comes across to me as "clean" and "noise free", with some nice spacial effects, basically devoid of harmonics, and not much in...
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The Karl Ancerl/Czech Phil version turns out to be even better than I thought when I first heard it. Now that I have (finally!) developed an empirical method for finding/setting VTA (accompanied by cooler weather!), I was rewarde...
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Romy, I get your point that it seems like the best and most likely application of your evaluation ideas would be exactly the “high-end” designers and manufacturers we are met to disparage. And this should be particularly true in the case of the...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Here is the link:http://www.rank-concept.deI have no experience with the Lamm ML-series, I just listened to an M-series hybrid amp combined with the Watt/Puppy 8. This performance was a single fake (though a pleasant one). I can´t...
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This report is on a new pair of Marantz MA-9S2s, following up on the relevant post in the "Powerful Amplifiers" thread. I installed the amps in my usual stereo set-up, to make it easier to draw a bead on them. I still have less than 100 hours on th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Amphissa wrote:Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured i...
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Adrian, Thanks for a most interesting post. I can't fully respond to this as I don't have the new tube brands you have. I posted earlier regarding my personal findings with the EML 45 solid-plate versus NOS however. Ultimately I found that...
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