mahgister

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Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums?
Great post! and in constrast with mine with only few words...😁 It would be a better world IF more people with evangelical like certainty about JUST how the ear brain works would approach it with less certainty….. Those who brag about what scie... 
Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!!
Thanks it is a pleasure to be understood ... Just a precision the minimal acoustic satisfaction threshold exist for all speakers at any price ... Because room acoustics problems are not theoretical problems only but are related to each type and e... 
Great classical pianists
Expression of the essence of a complex set of emotions is not accomplished through plastic formal perfection ... Listening music with the partition to verify the playing is not the way to listen music... Elementary teaching is not playing nor lis... 
Great classical pianists
One of the greatest not so well recognized Italian pianist is Sergio Fiorentino ... “The only other pianist” – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli “Recently I listened to a pianist on the radio who impressed me very much: Sergio Fiorentino, do you kno... 
Great classical pianists
My favorite version of the Chopin mazurkas which is my best prefered opus from Chopin was by Antonio Guedes Barbosa... A pianist with a natural rythmical sense and a spontaneous simplicity of expression that is very convincing to me in these idea... 
Great classical pianists
Nobody can negate what you just say about them... I discovered Bach thanks to intense Gould playing of the Goldberg ... And Horowitz is Russian pianist... It is enough for me ... And his reputation need no advocate so much he is great pianist in... 
Sound Stage and Imaging
I take it negatively guess why ? In another post you claimed that headphones listeners are not true audiophiles because headphones are inferior to speakers...Do you remember ?😊 In my world , and i disliked headphones all my life , they are diffe... 
Great classical pianists
«Sofronitsky met Elena Scriabina, Scriabin’s daughter in 1917, two years after the death of her father, and they were married in 1920. He never met Scriabin, but Scriabina said that her husband was the ‘most authentic interpreter’ of his works. H... 
Great classical pianists
Thanks for the correction ... 😊 But you certainly know more about Schiff playing than about Schiff origin  ... Sir András Schiff (Hungarian: [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈʃiff]; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist Wikipedia... An... 
Great classical pianists
My prefered version of the Bach well tempered klavier is first Feltsman and second Schiff ...I enjoy the two but with a preference here ... The Russian is more balanced between perfection and expression ...😊 So impressive the self controlled germ... 
What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?
Very well said... This reveal why pure subjective characterisation of what is "musical" may become meaningless pleonasm if we do not identify also what are the acoustics and psycho-acoustics conditions that may impede or increase the emotional an... 
when your hearing is not as good as it was . . .
We all loose high frequencies perception with aging ... But music and even sound qualities are first qualities , meanings, non linear wholeness which are not contained in the Hertz -decibel number linear windows and map ... My ears had lost thei... 
Great classical pianists
Some giants of the piano taught and plays concerts more than they were recorded... One of the greatest pianist of the last century is certainly Heinrich Neuhaus ... This documentary explain why : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCfrtFuYAc&... 
Great classical pianists
There is too many great not well known piano interpretation miracles ... Antonio Barbosa playing effortlessly the impossible Mazurkas of Chopin which ask for a complex rythm mastery ...Because of this complex rythm oscillation of this peculiar po... 
Sound Stage and Imaging
You remark is sarcasm not an answer... My post only said that there is acoustics explanation for imaging and soundstage dimension ... The gear synergy and design play an important role too ... The electrical and mecanical embeddings controls of...