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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] twogoodears wrote:I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, William...
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Thanks for sharing, Roman... I remember I fell in love for Jaqueline Du Prè since I purchased, eons ago, a double record-set on EMI... she was so easy and elegant, so innocent and... the playing: WOW!I guess tomorrow will be Du Prè's Day on my turnta...
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I've been an avid original soundtracks and film music collector for most of my life, and still I didn't find the PERFECT music for a movie... the classic, Alfred Newman's, Rozsa's, Hermann's, Williams', Horner's... them all did a superb job combined ...
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In his proud, bald 74, Leonard Cohen have been someone who lived life on his very own skin, always... from being a Canadian young Jewish, the son of a tailor, to a lover's lover who had the most beautiful women on the planet in his palmares, a talent...
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Thanks for the link, Roman... I'd attend con gusto to Dec. 4th "The Belly of an Architect"... Nyman's OST at his best... and a quite intriguing movie.Try to catch "Yuri" in HFA's cinetheque catalog... it's Master and Student relationship and Music, M...
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Is anyone still remembering the great, little "32 short films about Glenn Gould"? http://www.amazon.com/Short-Films-About-Glenn-Gould/dp/B0000027C4It's another of the few, rare movies which "try" to talk about the ineffable in Music, composing and pl...
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... it sure will be available in multi-language DVD format in the next months, Roman, after a short run in cinemas, like these days... but well worth waiting for it... I'll also will keep my eyes open on it!Will try to inform you and everyone wi...
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http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2008/11/alessandro-bariccos-lesson-21-or.htmlI strongly, definitely invite everyone loving Music and Beethoven's 9th Symphony, to go and see this very film... it's a challenge, it's Kurosawa and Greenaway... Alessandro...
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Here I am... I've been a Benjamin Britten's fan most of my life... from Simple Symphony Op. 1 to Death in Venice, Noye's Fludde, Ceremony of Carols, the Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten tenor & piano folk songs... to Violin Concerto... I only own and...
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Thanks for your comments, Roman.You're someway right... Goto foolishness;-))) maybe... also Mingsu wrote he "never" saw such a (Keith's - or mine) way to use S-150 mid-low horn... everyone's - me too, also with some doubt - copycatting each othe...
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Hi Keith and congratulations for your new babies... I'm truly jealous of your room size.Me too, as I previously wrote, assembled a VERY similar rig, vastly inferior to you welded supports, any, using the same approach: S-150, S-3000 and S-400, respec...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
For instance the narrowing distance between the channels increase the width of that damn audiophile’s soundstage, whatever it worth. Generally the setting the speakers wider from each other make soundstage wider. Yes, wit...
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... to better express myself, with every needed nuance... Roman: I never wrote I'm able to time-align my speakers, I only told you I quite recently began "moving" drivers and horns as I never did in the past few years, NOT simply looking for a practi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Welcome to the state of the lost virginity. In fact the expresses of the 98 percent of people worldwide are irrelevant as if you know how time-misaligned sound horns then you would automatically discard whatever ...
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Hi Romy:as I don't consider the thread as emptied, yet, I'd wish to add some thoughts after more days of listening to my system.I re-read an half-page chapter in French from Jean Hiraga's "Les Hautparleur" essay, concerning time-alignement and p...
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... she's Wonder Woman, and an artist... my compliments, Dominique!...
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... and, be sure, I completely agree... ONLY trying to "cut the air" and giving some understatement to a someway heavy matter - wishing to avoid any hype, which sometimes helps when reality can't be properly explained... the thread is interesting and...
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Romy:let's do not name those "four letters horizontal, the first a "G"..." brand... specializing bandwidth, high flux, moronity in selling ethics, non-advertising/word of mouth hypes, creating a status-symbol... these and others are all sub-prod...
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"The only thing that I ma afraid that it might give the effect of a correcting low mass of MC cartridges with too shallow VTA, if you know what I mean…"Romy: I passed over this important sentence... yes, "forcing" something is someway "faking" (an eu...
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Hi all... yes, a clean power is paramount for a clean sound... I run my turntable and pre-amp on batteries and the difference in sound is amazing, while I never used outboard filtering on amps, BUT I have a public mains transformer at 10 meters from ...
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Hi Paul... Miles'/Evans' SoS? ... thanking God, it's classical... I hope.Cheers,...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I would insist is that to judge sound of Goto driver from the installations that I have see is worthless thing to do -all Goto installation that I have seen are time-missaligned. To listen a time-misaligned horn installa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Yep, Stefano, it looks like we do have similar views about the subjects we touched. Let go back to exploring one of the terra incognito of compression driver – the sound of Goto.
The reason I ask is because no one talk a...
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I'm learning a lot on this Forum: lotta quoting and tips about the Great Masters - Beethoven, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and the Great Conductors Legacy: Toscanini, Walter, Furtwangler, Barbirolli, Boult...... the musical topics - alw...
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Hi Romy and thanks for your threads...Since I joined, as a reader first, your Forum... well, I had plenty of good time reading your posts.Your witty approach is really what we all needs in this Flat Earth... the problem in audio and music is that peo...
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Hi Romy and thanks a lot for the always interesting topics and discussions going on... I'm quite new to DPoLS and consider the approach of "obtaining sound in a room" more than "speakers positioning" - too often to WAF fullfillment and aesthetics, th...
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