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As one who frequently listens to both weekend broadcasts, I'd like to know which one is uploaded. Do they tell us? Or could it be... a compendium?clark...
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That is the best news of the week/month/... hell, the entire year! especially about the archives. good work! clark...
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Only, we don't know much about speakers do we?In my kitchen I have a $180 (list) Sony mini-system with subwoofer that is very very satisfying. That price includes AM/FM, dual cassette wells and 3-CD changer! But it's the main speakers that do th...
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Those performances of the last three symphonies were OUTSTANDING! I too had heard (some of) the Friday's and hardly paid attention. For Saturday I put down whatever I was reading and listened.The BSO has never been much of a Mozart band... not under ...
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Mr. Zander said the Philharmonia is much better orchestra and then his face turned sour and he say “… but you know it was a studio recording…”Good to know, that he knows the difference. Don't we all? So why do studio recordings persist?clark...
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Once again Dmitri the Greek comes through: a VN with the NYPSO that is both gorgeous and transparent. This early Columbia stereo recording sounds great on my Jap LP, and not bad a'tall on that CBS reissue label whose name I don't recall. I think the ...
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That was the whole point. It was a taped live performance. Recordings suck!This one had all the spontaneity and freshness of a real new world.clark...
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Surprised no one's mentioned the Vaclav Talich, certainly a benchmark performance. Actually he made two recordings and I've never had the opportunity to compare.As for Kertesz, the first recording (VPO) way outclasses his second.As for the best I've ...
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I know exactly what you mean. There's more excitement and looser rhythms (that's good!) in the live variety. That said, the Konwitschny has been on my Best List for decades. Celibidache ain't bad either, and always there's the G-L Jochum.clark...
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To the best of my knowledge, what we propose doing (and what others have been doing for decades) strictly speaking is against the law. However, without money changing hands no law enforcement agency is going to touch it (they fear the court...
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[From something I wrote five years ago.]Any schöne Müllerin fans out there? The great Schubert cycle about (I had thought) a young man's woes in wooing? Well!... For a new and shocking reevaluation of all that we had thought about this expressiv...
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I can't believe -- an orchestration! I'd have to be singing along, so it would be more like a Music Minus One. The Hotters (especially the one with the magical Michael Raucheisen) and the earlier F-Ds (there are ten in all!) are like the man said. Th...
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Since all audio folks know that the wall gives us highly variable power (voltage being just about the least important aspect), it occurs to me that a way to measure it that includes all the various parameters would be highly desirable. It further occ...
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"Miles"? Not, years?WCRB never went dark.WHRB subsists just fine, although CM programming may diminish after David Elliott retires.WGBH could indeed change to news/talk (i.e. crap) but since WBUR gives us a steady of diet of that, probably ...
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WBCN was the flagship station of the Boston Concert Network: WHCN (Hartford), WNCN (New York), WXCN (Providence) and WRCN (Riverhead, NY).WXHR was affiliated with WQXR ("The Radio Station of the New York Times") and they would occasionally swap progr...
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A correction or two:
The WHRB transmitter is not at their studios, rather atop One Financial Center downtown, across from South Station. The antenna height is 186m. For you it's nearly in line with WGBH.Clark the miserable repor...
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I believe every CD they play has first been committed to HD. Conceivably if they are playing a selection for the first time, they use that opportunity to put it on HD.During the summer everything on the WHRB "loop" is from the HD as well.clark...
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I learned The Trojans from its first stereo (and first complete too I recall) recording by Colin Davis. It was a rather cool affair, as studio recordings are wont to be, so I never realized how hot the music actually is until this year's Symphony Hal...
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...The Damnation of Faust all grown up and much wiser.With that Levine/BSO concert at Tanglewood, I should say that Trojans has now entered the rarefied world of the Ring, Mozart's Da Ponte trilogy, Fidelio, and of course Verdi and Puccini.Carme...
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Part One (on Saturday) was especially fine, even better than the Symphony Hall broadcast I heard. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus is incomparable!...
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Anyway, where did I say "consistent"?And that is "how they sell what they have." What's the problem with that?clark...
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So how can the manufacturers of all the "power cleaners" and "power regenerators" still sell the damn things?Well, AC supply varies so considerably -- from point to point, from time to time -- that each person probably tailors the fit of any AC devic...
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On the radio this week, heard his performance of the Frank Bridge Variations. It was GRAND!clark...
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Nothing.
That's why I never use it.
But it's still just a word.
clark
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Your stated e-dress is not working... and here I am in San Diego... from Boston... give a shout.
clarkjohnsen at lycos.com
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What's all the fuss about?
clark...
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"The quality of the upper bass"? What about the rest of the range, man?
The whole goddam cello!
clark...
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My single additional thought (you've received some excellent advice already) is to beware the semi-cubbyholes in which the speakers are placed. Those will become partial Helmholtz resonators and therefore do odd things bass-wise. Ameli...
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