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http://www.totalrecorder.com/index.htm
http://www.totalrecorder.com/using_scheduler.htm
The biggest disadvantage for me is that it does not work on Macintosh.
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If I think about the last 10-20 years, the only name that keeps coming up is Tom Danley. Synergy and Unity horns and tapped horn subwoofers got a fair amount of traction in the pro sound and DIY HiFi world. Just about everything else is “old technolo...
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In recording, we have literally miles of wire with very low level signal - and still can get A level sound. Professional microphones use phantom power (48V). Maybe we need this for standard interconnects. I know of no experiments with liquid in any n...
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http://vincent.brient.free.fr/main.htm
It looks like he is back to using horns. I can’t say anything about it. I have never seen anybody do something like this
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They showed this speaker at the Munich High End Show last year. They did not talk about the tweeter crossover frequency. The yellow cone Fostex driver is used from the low frequency limit (they claim 32 Hz) to 250 Hz. The back loaded horn is 3.3 mete...
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A. Wahlsten,this speaker is very well suited for time aligning physically. The more "DSP corrections" that we add, the worse things get. In addition, DSP time alignment can only be useful for one seating position and distance from the speaker. It doe...
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Romy,
thank you. Funny enough, one broadcast at the top (Christmas Oratorio part 4-6 with the Bach Choir and Orchestra from Mainz) just happens to be a recording that I performed with... Naturally, there are some interesting sens...
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At the beginning, audio was a scientific event. People like Bell, Marconi, Edison all were interested in playback of audio outside of the original performance. One used a telephone, another radio and yet another a medium in between for storage. I thi...
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Well, I think that you should first read about Romys Macondo speakers. There are several threads with his thoughts that should help you get away from the DIY approach that did not give you the results that you expected. You have experienced first han...
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Merry Christmas!Nice woodworking job on your speakers.I have a couple if questions:Why did you select the drivers that you did?What made you select one horn for the midrange but for nothing else?What process did you use to select the crossover points...
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This is a product that accomplishes what Romy asked for:https://www.vsl.co.at/en/ProductsI never saw this thread until now. The product has been around for many years. It is not perfect, but already very good. The sampled sounds are well done and the...
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In the case of brass players - including Mr. Schlueter, I would maintain that many simply have no interest in historic context for Mahler or Bruckner - or older music. Case and point: a Giovanni Gabrieli recording by the Met brass section. Sure, it i...
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It is excellent that Timbre is described here as color. This is actually how musicians speak about it. The problem with the comparison to photography is that color with a musical instrument is a moving target. If we take my own instrument, the trumpe...
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The gradual introduction seems to only happen when you are born or move into into a family that "cares" about music. You are exposed to it even before there is recognition what it is. The family does not even need high end playback, they just need ta...
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Well, it looks like this beautiful speaker did not get the traction that it deserved. Musique Concrete is no more BUT Marco Henry is offering most of what the Grande Castine was on line for only 14000 Euros. Check this out:https://www.kornhent.bzhThe...
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I think if we want to test for expressiveness, we need to quantify our expectations before we hear the first note. After several day/weeks of abstinence, our view and passion about drink, cigar, sex or intimate music very much changes.
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Amir,
you are not listening or trying to understand. You are doing the same things that Stereophile/Audiogon/TAS audiophiles are doing - posting about things that you are not even trying to understand - and copy pasting other p...
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[quote user="Paul S"].......By the way, Robin, when I referred to "Furtwangler's incomparable war time Beethoven 7" in my Neumann mic post a while back I of course meant his 9th. You mention how great performances "trump" the gear, or even the record...
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Amir,there is simply too much with your posting that I disagree with. Yes, knowledge and experience with live music is a powerful tool when thinking about musical goals for playback - even when considering that they are very much different events.Mus...
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Hi Amir,we must be careful when talking about limits. We need much more than we think. This is because instruments interact. One instrument playing 440Hz (A) and another playing 465Hz (Bb) create a difference tone of 25Hz. Depending on the intensity ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]people who are not exposed to a possibilities of certain (SOTA) sound reproduction level have NO IDEA what's actually achievable. To have a luxury of choosing five SOTA Trumpets from the masters is very nice indeed but assume t...
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Hi Amir,I have many trumpets, some for early music, some for historical playing, some for jazz, some for modern symphony playing. One thing that I teach my students is that the instrument must never be an excuse. We can play stylistically correct wit...
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Amir,an audio event can be anything that our ears hear. It can be live music, a baby crying, a recording, playback in the car.Playback is much different than live music - especially if we are familiar with the recording. First of all, stereo does not...
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[quote user="Amir"] rowuk wrote:Amir, I certainly will not argue that many professional musicians have „easy playback“ with no demand for audiophile artifacts in their sound. This is often because they are drawn into the music at a „different“ level....
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Amir, I certainly will not argue that many professional musicians have „easy playback“ with no demand for audiophile artifacts in their sound. This is often because they are drawn into the music at a „different“ level. The imaging that the audiophile...
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In the western world we have preconceptions about availability of „luxury“ items elsewhere. We don‘t know much about Iran and due to embargos and sanctions I had never given it much thought.It certainly shows my ignorance but I am surprised at the a...
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Amir, what you have written is not a philosophy, it is not a path that guides decisions, not a document what gives others insight into what music does to you and why. I have been following your posting, and to be honest, it sounds more like an audio...
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If we consider the time that Strauss was musically active, he offers so much connection to romantic history and brought it into the 20th century. The poet Friedrich Rückert spanned the century before him from the late baroque/early classic to the rom...
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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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[quote user="ArmAlex"]
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 '...
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