why do these setups sound so mediocre? - Page 6

There's a whole forum for organising meets, and also a dedicated forum just for "impressions" threads after the fact.  You're most welcome to start a thread to organise a meet yourself.  If you start getting the interest of more than a handful of people, you might want to ponder a place to have the meet which has plenty of power points, tables and chairs and refreshments or the like.

Unfortunately not in Taiwan...you are so luck y that you get to listen to gear before buying - I don't have that luxury here...

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Originally Posted by danielghofrani 

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Originally Posted by chrisjackson 

Of course there is something to be said for not getting too hung up on hi-fi if most of your favourite opera recordings are fifty-plus years old...

 

...about the opera (and classical) recordings, they are "composed" a long time ago, I have new productions. (new recordings)

and trust me if I finally find a setup that is good enough, I will buy 24 bit 96KHz recordings from HDtracks.
 

Sure, I understand. The somewhat throwaway comment was just alluding to the fact that a new state of the art recording may involve its own compromises : it may not be a recording of your preferred performance. Good example, check out Alexandra Wilson's choices when she did  BBC Building a Library programmes on two Puccini operas.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/cdreview/composer/giacomo-puccini/

Hope you can get that meet sorted out. But, hey, studies come first right? ;)

I gave a lecture at the U of Kitchener - Waterloo - once on Music and Improvisation! Wow - brings back memories.....

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Originally Posted by danielghofrani 

 

are you in Waterloo?!

 

Actually I'm from England. We don't have a Waterloo University just a Trafalgar Square: a place where students and prospective students can go to learn about the police technique of "kettling" demonstrations before they collapse from hypothermia.
 
Good luck with those exams.