bryoncunningham
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| Bach: Six Suites Unaccompanied For Cello I prefer Rostropovich's more "emotional" presentation.Samhar - I initially wrote the same thing in my post - i.e. that the Starker performance feels more intellectual, while Rostropovich feels more emotional - but then I rephrased it because I did... | |
| Bach: Six Suites Unaccompanied For Cello I like the Starker recording. Not on your list, but I also like the Rostropovich recording (from EMI). Rostropovich's performance strikes me as a touch less precise than Starker's. This can be a good or a bad thing, depending on your preferences.Y... | |
| Room correction altering soundstage I agree with GMC that one of the speakers may be out of phase with the other. On the other hand...If I understand you correctly, you are saying that one of the speakers has 18ms of delay relative to the other speaker. If that is correct, then I th... | |
| Empirical Audio Off-Ramp V4 Ultraclock + Monolith IME, reducing jitter is a key ingredient in getting a relaxed sound from digital sources. I use an Empirical Audio Pace Car reclocker in my system, and it reduced high frequency harshness in the way you mentioned. It also resulted in other improve... | |
| How close to the real thing? One guy's 95% is another guy's 5%.I agree with Peterayer about this. I tried to make the same point in my post on 11/27.FWIW, I think that the recent discussion about the SPLs of real musical events vs. recorded ones illustrates how audiophiles u... | |
| Live vs. recorded It seems to me that studio recordings often suffer from being over-produced. On the other hand, live recordings often suffer from being under-produced. In light of that, my personal preference is for a studio recording that could be mistaken for a... | |
| Do you listen alone or with guest s Alone. My wife gets restless. I wish that weren't the case, because it would be rewarding to share the experiences with her. She is aware of this, so sometimes she sits with me to make me happy.I do have a close friend who is also an audiophile, s... | |
| How close to the real thing? Weseixas and Phaelon - Thanks for those kind words.Learsfool - As I see it, aural imagination allows the listener to compare how something sounds with how it MIGHT sound. In my view, that is both an asset and a liability for an audiophile (and pro... | |
| High resolution Copper IC with PRAT like AntiCable I had the Anti-ICs in my system for about six months and was happy with them. I agree with your impression that they allow for a presentation with good PRaT (assuming the rest of the system can do that).But after I made improvements to my source/p... | |
| How close to the real thing? This has been a fascinating thread. It seems to me that it has raised three related questions:(1) How real does a state-of-the-art system sound? (The OPs question)(2) What are the factors that limit how real a system sounds?(3) Why do estimates a... | |
| Does my Pass amp dislike my Meridian preamp? Update: I have left the G68 powered up continuously for about two weeks. It has not frozen in that time. It seems that I am out of the woods.In light of that, the answer to my original question, "Does my Pass amp dislike my Meridian preamp?" is an... | |
| Music that really stirs your emotions For me, the most emotional music is by people who are unhappy. So for vocalists, it's people like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Waits, John Lee Hooker.The second most emotional kind of music for me is by people w... | |
| Which attributes do you value most? i think ranking the 10 factors listed above is more an intellectual exercise and less an instance of reality.The OP did not ask anyone to rank the ten attributes listed. It asked people which attributes they valued the most. The ten attributes lis... | |
| Review: Reference Audio Mods: Meridian G68 CD Player Update: After two weeks, the sound of the modded G68, which was excellent to begin with, has improved dramatically. The initial improvements were increased resolution, decreased harshness, and better PRaT. But in the past week or so, the improveme... | |
| Which attributes do you value most? 1. Harmonic content*2. Coherence3. PRaT*Al's term 'harmonic accuracy' might be a better term than 'harmonic content' for expressing my preference, since 'harmonic accuracy' implies a resemblance to reality, while 'harmonic content' does not. |