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Again I would ask people who are reporting problems to state whether they have the original PP or the Plus version made in the last few years. One issue that is definitely tied to the Plus version was the overheating that a NZ customer reported. It w...
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Let's be precise that the overtones (harmonics) from most musical tones contain All the notes of the scale at some point in the series. The major third is there and the minor third is there. The difference is simply their relative position in the ser...
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I'm sorry that I am not on the wavelength that you wanted to use with this thread. With respect to your examples, yes it is good to try to play music in accordance with the attributes the composer expected, including the frequency of orchestral A, th...
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I'm confused on whether these problems are only occurring in the later Plus version of the PP or in the original version as well. If it is only in the Plus then the problem must lie in whatever revisions/modifications were made. If in both then it is...
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"many tuning geeks today still find that [equal] temperament loathsome."Of course tuning geeks don't like equal temperament. And of course a capella musicians will settle into just intonation if they can get away with it. What thought is i...
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I am not going to battle through all the garbage on Slate so I can see their meanderings. I will have to disagree with Slate in invincible ignorance. Of course we are only talking about voice, trombone and fretless strings because everyone else is so...
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Sorry but I couldn't get to the article through all the ads and surveys and wait screens. Musicians will more or less adapt to any tuning system thrown at them. Or course those that can "cheat" because of the construction of their instruments (eg fre...
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It certainly seems that once sinusoidal shape gets within a certain spec range its differential effect becomes negligible. This doesn't necessarily mean that more drastic deviation of sinusoidal shape would be inaudible.The only other factors I can...
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Assuming that there aren't any anomalies or noise components missed by your scope there are several logical possibilities:1. The PP Bypass mode does Not operate in the way you think it does (or maybe there is an issue in the Regeneration mode).2....
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[quote user="Paul S"] it would be great to lower the noise level of the vacuum, by any means available. Perhaps NG might have used quieter components and/or designed it differently. However, I see no practical way to remote the motor for the disc-sp...
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We know two things about PP as it is currently constituted: the current product is not reliable and you don't dare send it back for repair. If one is lucky and gets something that works for a while then feel lucky. The fact that double conversion is ...
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Yes I think we need to move on from PP and yes the question is how to do it. This should not be a major theoretical nut to crack. Double conversion units are plastered all across the world. In my investigations, the one issue with the commercial doub...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Sometimes we have luck when we listen to a System and we can have the illusion of - more or less - pure music realism, but the majority of Systems are sophisticated hi-fi.Well, but let's be honest, can it be so difficult to creat...
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[quote user="rowuk"]EUREKA - The Magico is a creative tool for new experimental music - not a reproducer of old! Even Miles Davis is on record as calling Beethovens music "Dead Shit"............[/quote]Presumably the music that Magico (or other vendo...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Every listening experience has fallen apart with my favorite record - Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Gerald Moore performing "The schöne Müllerin". Gee, if a speaker can reproduce a drum at twice live volumes, why is a piano so hard...
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I rather doubt that the crowd there was demanding Taiko drum demos. We need to know how the Magico rep set up the demo and what he said to the people there and what other "music" he played. I don't see a repeat of Taiko elsewhere as being likely eith...
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My point was simply that it is routine for speaker demos to mininize the weak points of the speakers by choosing material which is hard to compare to an external source. The Taiko drum demo, as stupid as it is on one level, might have been an attempt...
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I didn't see Magico in Breuninger's Winners Circle in the link above. An oversight or an unhealthy bias against Taiko drums??As for Guy Sergeant's comment about the demo choices, I assume those kind of artificial sounding mixes are done on purpose as...
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But the prospective Magico owner needs to know whether the Magicos reproduce the real Taiko drum closely enough to scare and demoralize all the JDs in the neighborhood. It's like those recorded barking dogs that homeowners use in place of real dogs o...
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If the idea was to demonstrate the unbelievable fidelity of these speakers why wouldn't they use an instrument everyone had heard live or barring that bring in a set of taiko drums and let some taiko player have at it? It's hard to tell from an MP3 f...
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I am not questioning Apple's motives. I assume they are doing this for one reason: to have better sounding Lossy versions. Makes perfect sense for them. You are edging closer to my point that the term "lossless" will soon be meaningless unless we rea...
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Rowuk, I am not comparing lossless to lossy although the last quoted passage above does give food for thought. My point was that the performers, engineers etc produce a mastertape. Then the mastertape is altered not to improve it but to make it easie...
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Yeah, that is low life for sure but that kind of takedown is becoming more common. People are copying the politicos (of all types and persuasions). If they can't give a memorized answer or it jars one of their buzz phrases they feel free to slime yo...
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RE Peralmusic soundfilesThis is something that a Jacob Ganz wrote for NPR (my underlining):"I spoke again with Bob Ludwig, the mastering engineer quoted in the
story, who has submitted "Mastered for iTunes" tracks to Apple. He says
the compan...
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I could forgive Mr Rose his personality defects if he was producing soundfiles of some distinction rather than just doing 24/192 needledrops. The scary thing is that his patrons contend that these concoctions are the equal of using the mastertape. As...
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I'll look for that CD. There are some Bychkov concert performances in the archives of the Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall that can be accessed for a modest fee. I thought the sonic quality was rather good allowing for the occasional dropout etc.As f...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The Brits Pristine “eventually” heard my call. A few years back I begged them to sell the raw 24-bit masters bit not the 16/44 releases, as the down conversion below 20 bit kills too much of sound. It looks like nowadays th...
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Paul, I think we mean different things by transients. By my definition, there is no correlation with dynamics or volume. There are transients in the softest sounds as well as the loudest. A transient is merely the onset or initiation of a musical not...
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I agree that that article was one of the few that I would have been happy to affix "Steverino" to. I know that Romy has minimum high regard for SACD and I am not particularly keen on it myself. But since I only have about 75 CDs/SACDs I have never se...
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Maybe I misunderstood the article but it appears that the device doesn't do any regeneration or isolate the audio system from the mains current. I read it as supplementing the available current as needed by the moment to moment power requirements of ...
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