kr4
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| Anybody here listen to Mahler? Another fairly complete (no 8th) is Michael Tilson Thomas' recording with the SFO in SACD for those who care. There sure is an 8th in the series. | |
| Changing Turntable to Balanced Output Doesn’t that defeat the whole point of it? Yes. | |
| Architectural Digest finally shows audio gear! My daughter's apartment was in AD many years ago and, while there was a casual reference to the audio and HT setups, neither were illustrated. | |
| Changing Turntable to Balanced Output Phono cartridge output is inherently balanced but one side is often grounded in practice. However, you would need a phono stage with a balanced input to take advantage of a balanced output from a cartridge. (I did that many years ago when I play... | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? I don't have any strong opinion here either 😂, but I tend to call them Measurement Morons. Using "objectivist" to describe them is way too flattering for these morons. That's hardly an objective statement. 😘 | |
| Dirac Live - horrible? Dont work Yes, but what does one see in the curves? 1. The difference in FR between the measured and the predicted result as well as the correction FR, itself. You can confirm these with REW, if necessary. 2. The difference between the original impu... | |
| Dirac Live - horrible? Dont work Doesn't seem that it is working properly. In my experience with DL, the resulting corrections should be readily seen in the curves and the resulting sound should be lower in gain as necessary for overhead compensation. I've not used that parti... | |
| Dirac Live - horrible? Dont work This is an old app for NAD T or M series AVRs and, as you saw, the ratings are low and there are warnings that it doesn’t work. Why are you surprised? | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? The subjectivists seem less worried about being duped by some unusually clever nasty capitalist. There may be various explanations for that and not all of them are complimentary. | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? When these two camps retire to their listening rooms, which school of thought tends to get better sound? That's the wrong question because they are likely to define "better" differently. The real question is "Which school of thought tends to b... | |
| Why do all Mahler recordings seem too bright? lowrider57 wrote: Because some engineers in the heyday of multi mic'ing would place a mic on each individual instrument instead of 2 or 3 per section. Some conductors, particularly Karajan liked to be involved in engineering the production proce... | |
| Why do all Mahler recordings seem too bright? @kr4 I wasn’t addressing brightness in the Ivan Fisher recordings, should have separated the two thoughts. My issue is with many modern day Bruckner digital recordings. There is emphasis on the brass (trumpets and trombones) due to over mic’ing o... | |
| Why do all Mahler recordings seem too bright? lowrider57 wrote: No, but I've heard the outstanding sonics of his Maher cycle. Will check it out on Qobuz. The close and multi-micd Bruckner is not always what I consider bright, but the brass section can also be too forward in the mix. They... | |
| Is teflon based lubricating spray bad for tonearm bearings? But Linn is still in business, so you can still ask. | |
| Why do all Mahler recordings seem too bright? lowrider57 wrote: May I go off-topic for a moment? I find many of the Bruckner digital recordings bright, and this only applies to the horns. Massed strings sound perfect, but all those mic's on the brass section ruin some performances for me. ... |