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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Romy: "I just can’t
imagine that they place an order for let say 100 units and did not test
a fully functional prototype. No one would put the overheating units in
production – that would be suicidal or the action of absolutely stupid...
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I understand what Paul is saying but it is also true Romy was looking for some customization and wasn't content with the original design. I have seen enough acceptable comment concerning the older model that if it is Not exhibiting some fault (Very I...
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I don't think Purepower Canada has the wherewithal to just close the factory assembly and take a sabbatical while they start from scratch, or better, just return to the old model that mostly worked. In addition they probably have lost their markets i...
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Hifigirlgeek, Thanks for your reply and further details. A very unfortunate mess and shabby treatment. The fact that they now say they need to mod the mod confirms my point above about making design changes on the fly. Of course they may simply be r...
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Paul SMy guess is that the redesigned elements were never adequately proved out in a prototype. There is not only the issue of the manufacturing implementation of the new design elements, but also their integration into an existing production model. ...
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hifigirlgeek :I have to say that the change to local production does not seem to have done much for either the quality of the goods provided, or their customer service. I got one of the older units (pre-cluster) and have had no problems with it. The ...
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I don't have Lamm, but I think conceptually there is no real difference between imaging the location of the players and imaging their non location. Sound waves generated by the musicians are traveling in the space between them and even if it weren't ...
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I think my statement " Because we can't map it precisely from the stage to the speakers..??" was on the right track. Yes there is a distortion of spatial information from performance to speaker in the same manner that a curved shiny ball distor...
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I'm sorry Romy usually I follow your train of thought but I'm lost on this one. There is a spatial arrangement that is optimal for the musical content. I think we agree on that. Then there is the actual spatial arrangement whether live or mixed. The...
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My point is not that separation per se must always be maintained but that the character of the music determines the degree of optimum separation or co-location. For example the first violins are grouped together for a reason; so the individual string...
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I have to disagree with the notion that spatial separation is an artifact of music stand geometry and of no material importance to musical expression. Composers themselves have written for specific spatial groupings (eg, Gabrieli, Bartok, Henry Brant...
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I think digital source components are the most sensitive to powerline garbage. They should all be designed to run off batteries. In terms of sensitivity I would rank components like this: 1. Digital Source 2. Solid State Preamp 3. Solid State Amp ...
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Audio Alchemy was a maker of budget priced gear back in the mid 90s that was somewhat better sounding than much equivalent gear. That would be enough to earn them enmity in the audio business. Of course they had virtually no quality control which hu...
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An interesting exercise but I couldn't come up with much top quality winter music in the classical instrumental category. A lot more in pop obviously because of Xmas. I'm sure I'm missing others.Winter Dreams Sym 1 TchaikovskySibelius Sym 4Vivaldi L...
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Does the sound start out faintly and then gradually or suddenly get louder?? I think there's a psychoacoustic point where a buzz could become faint enough that it resembles a hum (ie not hearing the transients). ...
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In the past, people described the reaction to things aesthetic as dependent on "taste". This seems like an exact metaphor. Everyone's palate is unique as best we can tell. there is no well prepared meal from a taste or nutritive standpoint that will ...
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I'm only aware of PS audio as an alternative. I wasn't crazy about the original power plant but they introduced new models recently which may be better. (I did not get favorable results running my turntable through the PurePower and I have one of the...
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My observation about video data was in the context of 2D images. DVD or film has a succession of individually static frames or pixel rasters; it does not attempt to provide continuous 3D images. Those are vastly more difficult to produce and involve...
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Romy's thread makes for sad reading. I assume from all that I have seen that most of the "high res" files were taken from 16 bit Cd files or processed at that rate at some point in the processing chain. There are probably a handful of conscientious e...
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Romy says "Oppo is very
good video player. Still, it looks like it’s advantage in video are
not projected to 16Bit CD reading. Perhaps Serge was correct and reading
CD and reading the DVDs/BlueRays
are totally different...
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FWIW the only really cheap (less than $400) SACD players of any build quality I've seen are either used Sony ES series or Oppo units. I believe the Oppo units convert the DSD stream to PCM at output while the Sonys supposedly don't. Even with the S...
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I didn't see particulars but it was stated on audio aficionado that Bongiorno passed away on Jan 10....
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Antonio J said It's amazing you found a lady wishing to share your love for music and your demanding audio requirements.I believe Romy mentioned something about the interest in music of Mrs Romy but I don't think he ever said that she "shar...
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I don't know Ed Meitner so this is not a defense of his association with SACD. However, as I mentioned some time ago I strongly suspect that it was Sony who demanded the one bit SACD and nixed the 4 bit. Sony in the late 90s was obsessed with copy pr...
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Best of luck to you both. Enjoy your honeymoon and the holidays on the islands. Maybe that was poor Anton's problem. He could never play any of his music on the IPOD to his prospective lady friends,...
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"Under Young’s button the 8th sound like it is a light, concert version of the symphony, some kind of almost operetta-style phrasing. Then I presume that this style is not Ms. Young version but Bruckner own original vision."
I don't think Bruckner...
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"Perhaps I need to pick a German girlfriend and get German by the “other” means."I would think that it's more customary to learn German (or fill in the blank language) because one Wants a German girlfriend rather than the other way aroun...
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I heard Kavakos play the Tchaikovsky Concerto a couple of years ago. Outstanding technique and muusicality. The concertmaster was just back in her chair obviously impressed by his technical command. As for conducting, well, Ashkenazy made the transit...
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Romy says: It took for me a bit
time to get accustomed to slightly higher pitch of viola and perceived
narrowed dynamic range but I went over it very fast and nowadays feel
that dynamic starving is beneficial to the suites as it hig...
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Just a suggestion. "Greenish pussy" sounds like a disease. You might try something like "enviro bunny". You didn't specify where all the solar devices are being hooked up? Are they hooked up to a junction After the drop to your house or Before the d...
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