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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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When I was designing The Listening Studio (a business, of sorts) I had 4000 sq.ft. of floor at my disposal. Only the ceiling was fixed : A slanted oak-beamed roof of 14' to 16' height. After considerable thought I hit upon a solution: I would make th...
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I have ais very much the same configuration as Adrian has and I find work the best for me. I have PP plugged
in a single dedicated line and it is plugged with all 3 pins, including the ground.
The PP shall not work with lifted source ground, it g...
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Yes, Canada & Mexico add US $200, but Alaskans might pay by salmon and childhood pictures of Sarah Palin. With all joke aside here is an interesting gisheft that Jim Smith offers nowadays.
http://getbettersound.com/roomplay.html
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Interesting short film on the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
and its design...
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171102-how-do-you-design-for-the-perfect-sound
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Hi Rich, Romy, all
[quote user="rdrysdale"]Romy ,
I think for many people it's not even possible to reach a level of musical spiritual force. I've talked to Dr. Edgar at length about this,he and I believe that to have this feeling about music,...
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Well, I was thinking about that “Resonating Oops” for a while. I made quite a number of experiments. I some cases I was able to get interesting results but the “Resonating Oops” is very illusive. I do know that many readers of my site have wrong perc...
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I have been thinking how to position my playback in my new
listening room. It is a cathedral ceiling with chopped top and the room is set
in a way that I can do both positioning of playback: along the room center beam
and perpendicular to it. Tha...
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Well, we were thinking to rent out the old hours, there are obvious
cones and pros but the topic would not rise to the subject of this site. What interests
me in context of the site is the requirement to the new listening room. I still
would like ...
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Well, be afraid to get what you wish people say and it is exactly what happens in this thread: last week I expressed curiosity about the tapped horns and today I have more information about them than I wished. I appreciate John, Robert, Tom and ...
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...because I do listen to rock, jazz & blues. Indeed, this is ~25% of my music content.
deemon wrote:
Imagine two persons - the first man likes classic music and don't likes rock , and the second - likes both . And they tries to...
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When I think about Sound of Playback then I imply a complex mix of dimensions from many different threads of live. Sure sound of playback is a rendition of what is recorded but it also might be anything else.
All playbacks sound different and ...
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Since the September 3, the Bruckner birthday is coming California and Connecticut have announced their annual Bruckner Marathons:
West Coast Brucknerathon:
Overture in G minor: Asahina / New Japan Philharmonic (live, JVC, 1980) Sy...
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Well Ronnie, welcome to the world of classical music! Tschaikovsky 4th
is actually my favourite Tschaikovsky symphony (Mravinsky!), followed
by the 6th symphony (also Mravinsky). The 4th is dramatic, dynamic and
opera like, the 6th is tragic: when...
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This miserable Japanese freaks did it again!
For years the Scherchen Mozart Requiem 1953 performance was available only on the Westminster LP and at few privet low quality CD transfers, The Universal/DG has the wonderful transfer (289 471 201-2) of&...
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http://home.flash.net/~park29/koussevitzky.htmAnd in a nice big box:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005TS0B/102-0376091-0067332?n=5174Along the way I found this appreciation of K's Rachy 3rd:
My Favorite Stereo 3rd, April 19, 2005
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Hi Romy,Just the Nanut Mahler would be really great. 80) (I already have Nanut's Mahler 1 4 5 & 6).Anything else that you rate highly would also be most interesting & welcome (I tend not to listen to much oper...
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A couple hours ago WHRB stage own 4 days long, day and night Mstislav Rostropovich’s Orgy. The Broadcast is available on line – a phenomenal work listening… The program is more then exiting:
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in a; Sargent, Philharmo...
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http://www.ovationtv.com/music/classical/index.aspx?genre=1&subgenre=14&tab_id=1&subtab_id=14DIRECTV TO ADD OVATION TV TO NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT LINEUPSatellite Launch Targeted for Mid-2007 Nearly Triples Network's CarriageLos Angeles, CA...
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I truly love that. Sometimes in the randomness of internet audio idiocy there are events where I become sort of epicenter of bashing. I say “sort of” as they do not discuss my personally or what I stay for but instead the intent Morons mostly sh...
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To facts:
1) A few weeks back Robert Witrak. The owner of http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2692
sent me example of the original 24/96 files that he is greeting after his AD processor. The resul...
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Do not believe me, I do not believe myself! I would like to tell you honestly that if this thing would be said by other person I would accept it as a pure BS because I have no reasoning to believe that it might be true…. but it is what actually what ...
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Well, I'm pretty much convinced at this point of my fatherhood
that whatever we do we are doing we ruin this child but it is what it is. Yes,
they say that up you age of 2 a child shall not be exposed to television and to
a large degree we follow ...
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Understood. Thank you as always for the technical info.
I mentioned the DAB+ becasue the ABC are spending all their time and money implementing digital. 1st July is the start. You might glean some info on perceived quality of this format if re...
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Gay cowboys and drag queens doing erotic dances find their way into Tchaikovsky's ``Eugene Onegin'' in Munich.
The Polish stage director, Krzysztof Warlikowski, turns this classic romance into a gay love triangle, and was roun...
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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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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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A New Bridge to Old RussiaBy Heuwell Tircuit
When the rather newly minted National Philharmonic of Russia ended its local debut concert, Sunday evening in Davies Symphony Hall, the audience was on its feet, wildly cheering and even whistling. Under...
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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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My prize to the most interesting and educational room at the show goes to a room with WAVAC 833 power SETs. Visiting this room made me to think a lot and made me to draw a lot of very valuable to me conclusions.
I heard a lot about those amps. Recen...
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The First AnnualEast Coast Brucknerathon!
Friday & Saturday, September 4 & 5
Hosted by John Berky & Ken Jacobson at Ke...
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