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Post by xylems on Jun 20, 2014 18:49:38 GMT
Ah, this looks pretty spacious. Plenty of room to explore, and little risk that we will find the acoustics being tested by unduly loud voices.
After all, if we like high-resolution playback of animated musical performances, who needs misinformation, negative thinking, or dogmatism?
My tastes run for example to Haydn, Bach, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Britten, Roberto Gerhard, Mozart (chamber music & the piano concertos), Ravel: Ellington, Mulligan, Getz, Desmond, Webster, 'Sweets' Edison: and Tom Lehrer, Ira Gershwin, Sinatra.
I'm partial to Quad speakers, food and wine, rural France, learning things, walking, reading, and friends. The fact that others hold different opinions doesn't take anything away from my enjoyment, and we can learn from the most surprising sources.
So much has changed for the better in the past few years since some of us were comparing notes on the new higher resolution pahways that were just opening up. More progress than we had hoped. In the classical music field, for example, choice has become so much richer. Good luck with the forum.
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Post by John on Jun 20, 2014 18:54:58 GMT
Thanks very much for the nice praise and welcome to the forum Do you name or preferred to be called Xlems
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 19:07:27 GMT
LOL - welcome! I hope you like the acoustic of our large space. Imagine some Gregorian chant wafting out from one of the naves...
Your musical tastes go well with the Quad speakers, if I may say so. Are you playing CDs or hi-res sources and, if so, where do you download them from? What lurks at the back and drives the Quads?
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 20, 2014 19:43:45 GMT
Hi and welcome to the forum! Well, with a name like xylems, you should do OK in a growing forum. Here's hoping you go with the phloems!
.....sorry, couldn't resist, the temptation was just too much!
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2014 19:44:57 GMT
LOL - I had to look them up!
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 20, 2014 19:45:47 GMT
He-heh!
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Post by xylems on Jun 21, 2014 6:04:34 GMT
Thanks , Chris. For obvious reasons I try to be particularly polite to passing phloemophagytes.
The 'xylems' goes back to subscribing to demon.co.uk all those years ago, and finding my first three choices of moniker already taken. 'Right you beggars,' I thought --try this for size! And somehow it now seems to have just grown on me.
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Post by John on Jun 21, 2014 6:25:48 GMT
Yes funny how that works out sometimes On another music forum I known as Spatch and remember meeting up with the guitarist at one of his gigs he did not know weather to call me Spatch or John
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 21, 2014 10:26:45 GMT
Welcome on board
I took batchainpuller on Gmail as every single variation of my name had been taken. Still have people asking what it signifies
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Post by xylems on Jun 22, 2014 15:33:33 GMT
I play commercial CDs and SACDs, together with DVD-s I've burned myself from broadcasts or from upsampled Cds. More recently, I've been transferring downloaded stuff to USB keys.
The equipment currently used to drive the Quad 989s is the Arcam FMJ A32 amplifier, fed by a Naim NDX Network player or an Arcam D137 SACD player connected through the Naim. Most of my broadcast listening/recording is to the BBC R3 HD service, which as you know is these days not just “normal” radio coded at 320kb/s AAC-LC, but uses an entire signal of suitable quality, with carefully managed levels and wide dynamic range. It is not full high-resoluton, of course, but some of the live broadcast conces now are really high quaity. This service for me surpasses Radio 3 FM. Not surpising, given that FM is bandwidth-limited to 15 kHz, with DC filtering applied, and the signal has dynamic range compression applied via an Optimod processor. The signal is NICAM encoded at 676kbps & fed to the FM transmitters via the BBC's distribution network.
For next moves, I am weighing up the respective relative advantages of surround sound, improved room acoustics, and DSD playback.
After all, we don't have to gold-plate those pearly gates. Do we?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 12:56:40 GMT
Welcome Xylems - looked the name up and that's rather obscure. Are you a botanist by any chance?
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