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We are the product of all our lifestyles experiences, but in this case, the family did not share the fathers singular vision. I am sure this is not because they were forced to work on the system, rather because the music was obviously not the middle ...
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Currently most organs (pianos, etc) are tuned in a "well tempered" way. This means that they are hardly in tune at all. Before Bach the instruments were "just" tuned, optimized for a couple of key and unplayable for others. When studying the sum and ...
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When we talk about reactions, language in my view comes into the picture. If we have spent any time with hifi, we learn about things like "punch", imaging, "wide frequency response". These parameters are insignificant to hear and appreciate the music...
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It is true that there is a period of acclimation when combining the most special instruments and musicians. This period can be from weeks to years depending on how close the instrument is to previous musical habits. Some instruments also need to be c...
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What I just wrote is one of the basic building blocks for guided personal development. It is something that I have used in teaching since the late 1970s. I would not equate a disfunctional dopamine response as will, conciousness or any of the archety...
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We are creatures of habit and for many, the most major habit is procrastination. This is not necessarily anything that we can easily control but there are significant things to try.Our bodies have a dopamin regulated reward system and if we satisfy p...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Okay, it is very strange and beautiful at the same time. I follow every single word you say, and then the idea you express—and it is superbly ironic that this is exactly what I am doing with my new… let’s call it a unified ...
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In my view, the loudspeaker is a type of musical instrument that can be manipulated in any number of ways, albeit with playback, primarily statically. Just like the acclimation period with a musical instrument, we become accustomed to various paramet...
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This is a huge subject for me as most of my playback listening is not casual (but still for my enjoyment). There are so many levels of things to "mine".From the musician side:Using a recording as a scoreUsing a recording for interpretive analysisUsin...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I applied Jungian ideas fully to the subject of sound reproduction, and this led to a kind of fireworks display of observations that, in my view, completely redefine audio and, to some extent, music—at least as I understand...
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Thank you Romy for your story! I am familiar with Carl Jung but never would have associated my understanding of who he was with your initial postings. In any case, my "deeper journey" is not something that I feel a need to post online. In any case th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now we are talking about something interesting, and for me “interesting” means that it has no relation to the subject of musicality versus accuracy. The concept of musicality versus accuracy has meaning only within the cont...
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Many years ago I got as a Christmas present, tickets for a new years concert with "The 5 Tenors". The program announcement had a bunch of pieces suitable for 1 to 5 tenors so we went. After 20 minutes into the concert, I told my wife that I can not s...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote:
When communicating on line, we need mutual understanding for the things that we
want to discuss (the audio press has done little to help here). I can explain
my views of accuracy and musicality, both have n...
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Paul. I apologize for the detour. In the context of Accuracy vs Musicality, we have the issue of defining what is our relationship to accuracy and or musicality. The high level performing musician will have one view, a conductor or musicologist other...
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Thank you for the detailed discourse. What you wrote applies to really serious artists too. 1) In the example of a trumpeter, we get an instrument (in my case at 10 when my grandfather died), some preliminary lessons and with some luck, get our first...
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Roman,it was not my desire to directly compare the third Reich to audio (as Ovid does predate the third Reich by a bit), rather to describe one of the first primitive and misguided steps in audio. Of course there is logic in building a house with...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Great Context, Robin. And from more or less the same time and place of origin, we have Handel. So much Music pouring from that area for so many years! Starting in my youth, I was agog at their familiarity with Music, including th...
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Triple. The site was very slow and erratic. No post delete possible....
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Why things happen in my view, is a matter of from how many thousands of miles up you are looking at those things.If we are too close to a subject, often we can not see beyond the tip of our noses. I believe this is where "love" and "hate" thrive and ...
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When the stars line up, magic can happen, regardless if it is DPOLS or Bach's oevre.What lined up?First and foremost, his talent that in childhood was nurtured inside the family.Then the "apprenticeship" programs of the day that focussed on the rules...
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and mathematics and history and crossover and even orgasmic.One very significant thing about Bach is that you must play WITH his music. It has its own logic. If you do not understand it, it is almost impossible to perform well. The logic is dependent...
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Relevance as I understand it, is not a transient thing. In the case of Bach, Relevance1) a new direction for composition was created by him, arguably still unmatched today. This blended the old church rules, performing practices, usage of key signatu...
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Relevance is another rabbit hole that has changed throughout the centuries. After Bachs death, his relevance was dramatically reduced for a short period of time (meaning his works were not performed). The reason was that it was considered too intelle...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
It is as if I were a sculptor: when I see a granite block, I already see the delicate sculpture that my consciousness wants to reveal. The amount of material that must be removed from that granite block in order f...
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Thank you Paul for your well developed thoughts.Over Christmas I had a discussion with someone visiting about what they wanted in playback. They claimed that their goal was accuracy, something in my view that is so impossible that I refuse to discuss...
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Being an active musician, I can say that many times composers did not actually compose for any specific ensemble. They may have been lucky and had someone interested in their work. Even the great Johann Sebastian Bach had his bread and butter cantata...
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At various locations in my apartment, reception is exceptional but there are also blind spots (proximity to water pipes being the most serious). If your favorite headphone chair is in one of those blind spots, the headphone interconnects are just par...
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As my second son is a recording engineer, we experimented with this. The main issue is that the "ambience" of live venues is relatively uncluttered in the first 100 milliseconds or so, but in a listening environment, this space is filled with "early ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I know the feeling even if I am not 70
Here is a hypothesis that I have but I never tested. Feel free to test it if you have interest. Listening extensively sound of yamaka injection fills proposed that ...
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