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| CARA - Room Acoustic Software Albert, I took a detailed look at the site and I am quite excited by the capabilities of the CARA software. This is by far the most sophisticated modelling software I've seen. I have been quite interested in sophisticated RTA measurement vs "sound... | |
| MSB Platinum Link vs. Altis Reference I'm very confused about your reference. I spent about a half hour looking for the MSB Platinum review on the Enjoy the Music.com site. I didn't find a negative review but under the 2001 Jimmy Award Page I found the following quote "Under $4,000. M... | |
| Listening Room Upgrade In addition to the above suggestions... If you want to reproduce the lowest bass octaves, stiffen your floor from below. If you have heavy speakers, seperating them from the overall cross bracing and bracing them to the sub floor in the basement o... | |
| Question about older stuff It is hard to answer this in general. Here are a few personal impressions. I still have acces to a fairly large amount of Marantz, CJ and ARC equipment that I owned from the late 60's onward (sold to friends, moved to second system). Yes, there ar... | |
| So much Bach, where do I start? The Walcha "complete" organ works on CD can be ordered from europe, try http://www.crotchet.co.uk. I just read in the Grammophone that it is due to be released in the US. MC Alain also did the complete Bach organ works, I have them on vinyl and fi... | |
| music you cant live without Re Argerich. Most of her recordings are for DG and their 'Tonemeisters' usually roll off the lower registers in their recordings. | |
| Help with tube amps My wife and I often listen with two other female music fanatics. All of the ladies demand tube amps. I prefer tubes but personally there are several SS amps I could live with. As a start a Jolida 502 used, with decent tube upgrades could be a good... | |
| What's your profession? Age? To Felthove: How to get an $80K system? Marry some one who is as nuts about music and sound as you are. Someone who has similiar career prospects (Technical undergrads and MBA's from a top school). Stay together,don't have kids and work hard from ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? To Frap. While it was a long time ago,I recall the gas as helium (not flammable). Those speakers were only time my wife (who shares a passion for fine sound)made an interior decorating comment and asked if the tanks came in colors. | |
| Best Martini s If you actually want to taste the character of the vermouth (I think 10:1 is the limit) as opposed to just modifying the flavoring of the Sapphire, be sure to use a new bottle of Noilly Prat. Even when I cover the newly opened bottle with nitrogen... | |
| Music to test systems Ray Still was an astonishing oboe player and quite a character even by the stereotypes of oboe players. I didn't get to know Larry Combs. I knew the brass players the best, especially Adolph Herseth (trumpet) and Dale Clevenger (Horn). I became mo... | |
| How much does your system retail for? About $85,000 in equipment for my main system. About $10,000 in listening room modifications (the concrete was cheap) and acoustical treatments. | |
| Music to test systems Sorry if I sounded testy. I heard virtually every Orchestra Hall performance of the CSO ( and many at Ravinia) from the late sixties to the mid 80's. I also had a fair amount of personal contact with Solti and was at several of his recording sessi... | |
| Music to test systems The manic tempo in the last movement of the Concerto for Orchestra is in the score. Solti takes it at the marked tempo and even went so far as to examine the autograph score before the recording to resolve some tempo discrepancies between the part... | |
| Music to test systems I tend to use recordings of music that I have frequently heard live. Since I have heard the Chicago Symphony live hundreds of times I use the Reiner (Classic Vinyl preferred)and Solti performances of Bartok,Reiner's Sheherazade, Solti's Mahler 8th... |