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I have been using my new sauna for a week and here are the observations that I came across so far. It is all depend of the conditions. If the sauna has temperature under 200-210 Fahrenheit and humidity around 10% then sound is tolerable in there. I w...
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[quote user="Paul S"]I try every few years to home in on "leads" to Strauss's "men's chorale" works. I've heard only 2 examples, both while driving, and both times the usual "random selection" with "random explication" from "dee-jays" who hold forth ...
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This seems like an appropriate place to share my latest thoughts about Macondo copying!I thought I built almost copies of the Macondo upperbass horns, yet I've really only achieved quite questionable results. Impressive from time to time, but never f...
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Hi Romy,I have a friend who uses his audio system to listen to dramatic productions broadcast (sometimes live) on the radio. He also buys recordings of plays, and poetry readings. He is extremely fussy about how the sound of the venue is reproduced a...
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Tonight I listened in my truck to the "local" classical station playing a Mozart piano concerto I did not recognize ibefore I lost it. As I got closer to home, there was the familiar ghosting and then adjacent station override. The reason...
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The Boston Symphony performed wonderfully today with Beethoven's 9th Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Beautifully rendered from start to finish. The radio moderator said it was a cloudy day at Tanglewood when the performance b...
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...are some bullshittings we attach to our irrational actions a posteriori merely to justify them.I think you understand it well. I have that idiotic 304tl project, have accumulated lots of hardware, this may be a wayto make something remotely useful...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In fact in today world there is a very interesting phenomena - very low-end audio, literally mass-produced table radio that on can buy for $50 sound hugely more musical for classical repertoire then the mega-dollars playba...
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Hi, I'll be very interested to see what you end up with. I really like my Shelter 901, but would like something which gives me a little more of the sound that i'm getting from my tuner. What do I mean by that, more realistic space/tone pe...
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Hi Romy,Can you describe how your vinyl playback and conventional CD playback fall short of what you are getting from FM? Is the FM playback of 'non live' material still sounding better than your vinyl and cd? Have you tried recording vinyl wit...
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Hi Romy,How do I stuff the SME headshell (or other headshells) with silicon? I am tech idiot and can't imagine how to keep the silicon from just running out of the headshell, is there a type of silicon that dries after application I guess? By the way...
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In this thread there was a conversation about the way to manage the DAW remotely, from handheld devises, via sophisticated remote controls or running a remote desktop from a laptop. That all good but a few days back I was visited a local guy what dem...
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Hi Kitty,This combo is quite interesting and amazingly coincidental....I had scan speak 18W's sitting around from my old speakers and just recently had them put in sealed boxes. I was using a Seas silk dome on top (in free a...
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I've heard this performance of Roméo et Juliette during a live broadcast on Dutch radio. Placido Domingo as a conductor: a reliable conductor but further nothing special. Placido is of course singer in the first place. It becomes clear to m...
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This is a German re-dub and compilation of recordings made in Germany between 1927 and 1935. Sound is just fine IMO to bring it across, and the various "pick-up" "orchestras" are so good that it boggles the mind with respect to the musical rich...
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I did not see the affair but listened on my car radio. I liked the enthusiasm of the playing a lot and the very appreciative audience that, I think, got more out of the orchestra.It certainly seemed like the musicians felt real compassion...
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I'm looking for more recordings of my favourite Bartok works.These are the ones I got, in order of preference:Piano Concertos #1 & #2:Yefim Bronfman and Esa-Pekka Salonen + Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony)Superb! Seems like these guys ha...
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I recently become expectedly infatuated with a great contemporary conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Myung-Whun Chung was born in 50s and he is a well-accomplished pianist. He started his conducting under Giulini’s wing and as a guest conductor have l...
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Early New Years morning (5:30 am!), I and my girlfriend were driving to Mt Baker for a day of skiing. Near the US / Canadian border, I found one of the Vancouver classical radio stations and we listened to the festive New Years progra...
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I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I thought: "Horrible waltz mi...
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Talking about spontaneousness of FM radio... Where else it possible to hear something like this? (a small 3 megs mp3 file)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ddefb24e284be68dd2db6fb9a8902bdaThe Cat...
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Paul, I agree, I don't have read enough in the music forum to do such a never-ever-statement. Did I expect an extra-thread about recording techniques?Yesterday again I made such an experience.I listened to this CDhttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/albu...
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Romy, this is a little OT, but do you remember the Curtis Institute (Philadelphia, I think...)?Anyway, I just heard them on my truck radio today, and they were great! So enthusiastic!While enthusiasm does not solve all musical problems, IMO&nbs...
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the way you want to hear it!Bruno Walter, was a close friend to Mahler and very much a Classic only preference conductor. He does "The Titan" without over-emphasising it's late romantic origin.It is available on Columbia "<-360 SOUND->" STE...
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After a 10 years or I have today wonderful listening of Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance. It is Swedish Radio Choir under Tonu Kaljuste on ECM New Series. As anything more unearthy-sublime then the 12the psalm? In fact it not only the 12 – I like al...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Where does that leave the potential of magnetic tape for delivering good sound? There is physical contact but it is fairly constant in nature.[/quote] I do not consider magnetic tape as “available source” anymore. Tape can ...
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When I read the forums I think, there is a coming back from Idler wheels. You know, these units which have the maximum contact for distortion (idler direct to the bearing into the platter). The Radio stations replaced them as fast as possible when DD...
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Hello Romy!Here is an example from pop music:http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQBut It could be possible you don´t hear the difference. I originally listened to it on an other one´s computer and it was impressive. During listening to it ag...
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DA, from what you say I do not think you need actions to do now. As I understand the power transformer for the amps most likely has been made. Since you are in design phase and the look forward to have a sever voltage then get 1-2A 12V transformer w...
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Was listening today from Radio Netherlands the Rotterdam Philharmonic Mahler’s 9 symphony, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. I very much did not get it from the beginning but the last two movements they grew up and it was very interesting. What I als...
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