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The member login at the front page and Boston's local musical events calendar are fixed and operational now...
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| Romy the Cat's
personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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There is a saying in my family "two removals (moving house) equals one fire" (no joke right now out West!). Similarly we say "two dogs equals one child" in the amount of care and feeding needed. So you went from three children to effectively 3.5; not...
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Actually Romy addressed my original question a while ago, I don't know why none of us remembered:http://goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&postID=17459#17459I will look into these. meanwhile I did have a nice listen to B4 from the...
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So I bought the Bruckner symphony collection by the Bavarian Radio (Bayerische Rundfunk) Orchestra. It was the least expensive set offered by HDTracks and I thought it would be interesting to hear how different conductors approach Bruckner. It has Ma...
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Romy,A short list of your "safe" Brucknerian conductors and/or orchestras would be helpful. I do want to go with a download this time for a few reasons and would prioritize audio quality a little higher than performance quality. I do not insist on th...
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Bruno,Let me clarify some things. First, I am not making any negative criticism of Bob Robbins or his method. Not having heard a system set up his way, I cannot say anything definite about the results. Also, while I visited Romy twice (in Boston Back...
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Romy,If you do hire Mr. Robbins then the key, I think, will be for you to observe and personally participate in his system tuning ceremony (he will in any case need another pair of hands to help move the Macondo around and especially in a way that wi...
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I listened to this talk up to the beginning of the question-and-answer session. I am surprised that this method would really capture the essence of Romy's almighty DPOLS condition. It seems to me that Robbins is very much centered on imaging alone, a...
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Poking around for options to acquire downloads of the Bruckner symphonies, including the performances briefly streamed free in April, I came across the following options on HDTracks.com. In no particular order we have, covering at least B4 through B9...
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Hi Rakesh,I tried that link but I got "Video unavailable, this video is private."There may be a technical reason, or perhaps Ma wants it to be a once-only, real-time event.I apologize for not putting the announcement up here sooner. I knew about the ...
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...and I very much enjoyed the performance too. I don't know if Yo-Yo was physically in WGBH's facility but the announcer said WGBH "produced" or something like that, so I assumed they played some role in making it all work (thought I picked up the s...
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I'm listening now and the sound is quite good in my opinion. Ma is plying from WGBH's studio in Boston so I presume they are carrying the stream as well. He is on for one more hour....
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Yo-yo Ma will be playing Bach solo cello suites for 2.5 hours starting in a few minutes (noon Pacific Daylight Time in North America.) He has a YouTube channel and it is also carried on the website kusc.org and maybe elsewhere. I don't know what the ...
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In a way it is not so hard to explain to outsiders what we are trying to accomplish, in that often when non-initiates visit us and listen to our installations they do remark that the sound is quite good compared to any audio they heard before.What is...
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My best guess is she is standing about midway on a line from the conductor to the tympani....
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Best wishes for Amy's performance with BPO tomorrow. I knew she was "serious" about the viola but did not realize she played with an orchestra. Pretty good for somebody who also takes care of three little kids, two cats, one Romy and a medical caree...
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And the original WAMM was itself a Fulton J Modular wanna-be, wasn't it?...
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I think you will only be able to decide about this after listening to some operas or other video-audio through the big system. The analog output of the video player may be good enough for the purpose, or it may sound terrible through the Milqs/Macon...
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I have an opinion, admittedly "based" on only a few personal experiences, that basement rooms are very good for developing low bass response. It has something to do with the absolute rigidity of the majority of the room boundaries, again just in my ...
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Novygera,If you are really going to run a single-ended pentode as a pentode (not triode-strapping the screen grid) then you will almost certainly need to use some negative feedback, whether global or local. It is partly needed to reduce distortion, ...
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The main dangers I see are are:1. AC line voltage2. Tube plate voltages3. Falling from a high place4. Heavy objects falling on BabyI do not think there is a serious burn hazard with operating tubes. They are not hot enough to cause clinical burn...
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I agree with Brian: the anti skating mechanism on my Grace 707 also works to rotate the arm outward, towards the edge of the record. So the skating force (actually torque) it is fighting must be the other way. It can be explained this way: the fric...
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It looked like they had "only" about 300-350 people on stage in Tanglewood. I think the original score called for about 750, at least that is how many Jascha Horenstein had on stage in the Royal Albert Hall in 1959. He also had about 6000 people in...
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Tonight, after playing some files from my laptop and USB DAC into my main system, I decided to browse the BSO site for some possible new downloads. While I was there, I saw a button to listen to a webcast of Tanglewood's Aug. 8 performance of M8, so...
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I'm not sure if the Salamander-style rack (wooden shelves supported by nuts and washers on threaded rods) will support 800 pounds, but if you put heavier items near the bottom then a wide heavy-duty version might be fine. Besides Salamander, some ot...
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Probably from around 1888. Google shows a very similar portrait by an artist named Ferry Beraton painted in that year....
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Romy,It is a really beautiful picture, thanks for posting it. Very appropriate for the New Year.Best to all,JJ...
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Seriously, those rear firing woofers (with bass reflex, driven by SET and only internal passive speaker covers) could be one point worth ridicule. The length of the cables, and size and probable acoustic deadness of the room, might be others. There...
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Novygera:If you have a transformer where the impedance primary-to-secondary is 5K:8, it means the turns ratio is (5000/8)½ = 625½ = 25. This is the ratio by which the voltage is stepped down and the current stepped up in going from the tube to the s...
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Seriously, I hope Mom and Baby will be home for the holidays and we will see a Picture posted. Of course the two present (actual) Cats need to be in the Exhibition as well.JJ...
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All joy to you and Amy!As to whether your son will develop an interest in Macondo and all the rest of your audio, I can offer only one data point, as to how my own son has reacted to all my (much more modest) audio adventures. In short, he takes ver...
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