richardbrand
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| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog listened to Klaus Mikela conduct Sibelius's 5th. It was excellent. He paced the first movement faster than I am used to but it worked really well Probably my favourite Sibelius symphony! I was imprinted as a child by Sir Alexan... | |
| Elac Vela BS403 vs KEF LS50 Meta @audiotroy Agree on the KEF Reference 1 which is a huge leap up in price and sound, given a capable amplifier | |
| Are you hearing the instruments or the music? @toddalin "I want to hear the instruments making the music each in it's own space" Not much chance of that at a real orchestral concert ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-B-Dog I often play Sibelius, although he doesn’t have the complexity of Beethoven, but few composers do Most days, I'd take Sibelius. To me, many Beethoven's symphonies tend to be bombastic stop-start affairs whereas Sibelius mostly spi... | |
| Buying used from Canada I am very lucky (or smart, it was my choice) to live in Australia. Just picked up flat packs from the Swedish company IKEA to fit out a laundry. The cupboard carcasses are made in China, the doors come from Italy, the wood bench top was manufac... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @audio-b-dog I often wonder what the earliest music must have sounded like. I assume it had a strong beat and the melody from a flute or whatever was less important than it is today The first nations people of Australia seem to have a continu... | |
| Concentration Sir Thomas Beecham said it best "The English don't like music, they just like the sound it makes". | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @timstella Even Yamaha only claims that their Clavinovas approach the sound quality of the best concert grand pianos. let me know when you get to see a Clavinova at any one of the best concert halls in the world?? I will confidently say NOT IN ... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @toddalin A synthesizer can play basically any waveform all the way down to subharmonic. A subharmonic square wave with an instantaneous rise time is harder on the speakers that have to make the transition more quickly An infrasonic square w... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @billstevenson Beethoven was limited by the piano technology available during his lifetime. It is interesting to speculate that perhaps with advances in technology perhaps a future composer will expand the possibilities of piano music yet to c... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @billstevenson You are well ahead of me, I can't even play the drums. But I did not make up the bit about Yamaha using sound recorded from a Bosendorfer Imperial! From Yamaha's Australian website: CLP-765GP - Features - Clavinova - Pianos - Mu... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass @billstevenson Looking at Yamaha's website, it seems at least some Clavinova electronic pianos use actual recordings of single piano notes, played at varying intensities. The actual recordings are taken from a Bosendorfer and a Yamaha Concert G... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler How about those cheap turntables that have streaming USB output? They must have cheap Analogue to Digital Converters far below the quality available to record producers. I am not a fan of streaming over USB under the best of circumstanc... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler123 Vinyl is not just for audiophiles! Surveys have shown that many vinyl purchasers do not even own a turntable. Aldi sells vinyl, for goodness sake. My comment was aimed at the lack of any information from Decca about the recording ch... | |
| Is there a problem with Decca's new packaging for vinyl records? @mahler123 Seems to me that Decca is ignoring the audiophile market completely. They have some outstanding classical musicians on their books, and some outstanding performances are being captured. In their heyday Decca introduced ffrr or Ful... |