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| Merlin Excalibur Speakers - Any Owners? Mikeltm, thank you very much for your answer. I may try to have another go at them. Specifically I enjoyed their ability to play complex orchestral music and keep it all together, something which the smaller Merlins didn't do nearly as well. I'll ... | |
| What did he say? Misunderstood lyrics. Great story formulaone! It's fun to see the history of how music and language get distorted across the span of years.That said, "pompatus" is actually a word (Latin, to be sure) meaning something like "splendor". | |
| Merlin VSM - Are they in the real top league ? Because nobody has yet responded to my question posted a few days ago regarding Merlin EXCALIBUR speakers, I post it again here (sorry for semi-hijacking this). I listened to a pair last weekend after listening to some Merlin VSM-SEs (different ro... | |
| HDCD Question.... Mdominick, you're right - Good catch. I remember them doing so but I guess it slipped my mind and I expect Jeffcott's last conclusion is correct as well. | |
| HDCD Question.... The easy answer to your first question is "No". HDCD is a proprietary encoding process (license owned by Pacific Microsonics) and HDCDs, while playable on regular CD players, sound better on HDCD-enabled CD players - HDCD-encoding is not decodable... | |
| XRCD: to be or not to be... For what it is worth, I find the XRCD version of Bill Evans' Waltz for Debbie better than the "regular" 20-bit remaster (and I have not heard the new 24-bit XRCD version), enough so that if I had to buy a new copy, I would buy the XRCD. This may s... | |
| VTL Service ?? I have had no problems with or complaints about my VTLs or the company itself. So far I have only good things to say. I purchased used VTL 450s in Japan 18 months ago (probably 6-12 months old at the time). Several months afterwards, I emailed VTL... | |
| what is a P0 sound like compare to.... There exists a P0 which predates the above-mentioned P0s. Living in Japan, ones sees them occasionally but even here they are quite rare. The two look exactly alike - I do not know what makes the P0s "better." A P0 usually goes for about $8-10k an... | |
| Japanese orchestral music--any recommendations? There are a few Japanese composers of classical music but you'll find there is not much "orchestral" classical music (in the western sense) native to Japan. In the mid 20th century, there were a few orchestral composers (Toyama, Akutagawa, Ifukube... | |
| Where does your user name come from? SWAM Pretty Well Across LaKe ERie? | |
| Where can I find a list of all 600 SACD titles? While prices are higher than elsewhere for everything but JSACDs, HMV Japan has the largest selection for sale (700+ at last count) which is also a decent reference list of what's out there. The list can be found here. BTW... HMV Japan has a "poin... | |
| Weird Question on Murray Pariah SACD Confusion Upon a visit to Tower, I find it is indeed the above-mentioned "red" Bach Keyboard Concertos 3,5,6 and 7 with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Different cover (Perahia in dark blue suit jacket with t-neck sweater in front of gate/fence (in Par... | |
| Weird Question on Murray Pariah SACD Confusion Cwlondon,I had planned on stopping by Tower in Tokyo this weekend so if you can wait until Saturday or Sunday AM E.S.T. for an answer, I will post my findings after I go (Tower is a ten-minute walk from home). This, of course, assumes it's in stoc... | |
| music , mind , thought and emotion Detlof, interestingly enough, according to a piece recently out (see it here), Glenn Gould was interviewed very late in his life (according to the interviewer, conducted in his usual summer wear, "two sweaters, a woolen shirt, scarf, gloves, a lon... | |
| Weird Question on Murray Pariah SACD Confusion Oops... to respond to your other questions... I have seen different cover art on the same Sony-released music between Japan and the US but do not, off the top of my head, remember any SACDs like that. Also, the "global SACD catalogue" is not at al... |