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| How do I smooth out violins? 01-05-13: RrogThe problem with a reference recording is it can sound completely different on every system it's played on. Does that make one system bad and another good? I don't think so. Every system I have assembled gets the most from a separate... | |
| What Instrument would you listen to? Brownsfan, if you don't already have it try to find the 1981 recording on the Astree label of Paul Badura-Skoda performing the "Waldstein" and two other Beethoven Sonatas on an early 1800's fortepiano. I have it on LP as Astree AS73. Not sure if i... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? 01-04-13: RrogThe OP states listening to a ton of orchestral music. I find it hard to believe all of these recordings are bad. Ron, note that he used the word "often." That would seem to imply that they don't all sound bad. Which was what led me t... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? 01-04-13: Tarp38I can sympathize since I, too, have noticed that digital can be cruel to high strings. A good deal of this problem can be atributed to early digital recording techniques. I never buy a classical CD recorded earlier than the mid to ... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? 01-04-13: BrownsfanI think a reference recording, recommended by the group as being innocent of the offending attributes has a great deal of value. If Charles1dad has a recording of violins that exhibits good coherence, lack of grain, and lack of ... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? I second Frogman's very well put comments, as well as the recording-related comments by Rok2id, Mapman, Charles1dad, and Opus88.If you don't feel certain at this point as to the degree to which the problem may be the result of deficiencies in the ... | |
| How do I smooth out violins? ... Massed violins in their upper registers (1500-3500 Hz) OFTEN [emphasis added] jump out from the mix and sound a bit harsh, unlike what one hears live.As I read it the information provided does not exclude the possibility that it may be a recor... | |
| The Lawyers Have Taken Over Audio As Mr. Schwartz recently told a skeptical customer: "The more you spend, the closer you get to musical truth."Seems to me that the intellect and experience of the designers of the components in the system have a lot to do with the quality of the r... | |
| Source for historical recordings --Edison, etc. Hi Dan,If vinyl will do, rather than CD, try to hunt down some of the releases from Mark56 Records. I have no. 827, a two-LP set transcribed from wax cylinders and released in 1979, "The First Commercially Successful Recordings 1889-1894." Primiti... | |
| WOW, they are important, but in what order? Also, XLR has a much wider soundstage than RCA's in my system. The RCA's sound like they image better, but it's because they are more left, center, right sounding. The XLR's have a sound "front" that is expansive left to right with no gaps anywher... | |
| How many watts per channel are enough? Thanks, Wilson667. It should be noted that the Crown calculator applies to one speaker, not two. The results it gives are consistent with the calculations I provided above when extrapolated to two speakers, and assuming 0 db headroom.I would not c... | |
| How many watts per channel are enough? You'll be fine on most recordings with 34 watts, but not on some recordings. And I suspect that a major reason for the diversity of opinion in the previous responses is that people listen to different kinds of music. Given that your listening is a... | |
| Cary 805, deHavilland or Atma-Sphere? Anyone cares Why doesn't Atmasphere build autoformers into their amps? I'd expect that the main reason is that it would add cost, size, and complexity to the designs, while being unnecessary with many speakers.Also, provisions would have to be made to allow th... | |
| Cary 805, deHavilland or Atma-Sphere? Anyone cares Using an Speltz autoformer for speaker/amp impedance matching is defeating the purpose of OTL.From the FAQ at Zeroimpedance.com:12) What is the difference between the ZEROs autoformer and a typical tube amplifier's transformer?The ZEROs have a few... | |
| $18k Tube preamp for large scale symphonies please Bill (Grannyring), the two ways in which high output impedance of a line level component are most likely to have audibly significant consequences are:1)Interaction of VARIATION of that impedance, as a function of frequency, with the load impedance... |