Robin L

Is this not (150 out of 3K) 5%?

I've used this quote before on here, and probably in reference to Stereophile too: “It is difficult to get a man to understand...

No worries. A few days ago I tried to elaborate the different ideas of real and realistic in use in this thread. I gave up. It's maybe...

Did you mean: Well, my ship's been split to splinters and it's sinking fast I'm drowning in the poison, got no future, got no past But...

I worked for Joseph Spencer, he had a record label - Wildboar - mainly for harpsichord. Had a harpsichord upstairs at his house. As one...

I have not read every post. I think we have to first define "realism". Does that mean how an orchestra sound to the conductor? The...

I don't know where you're coming from, exactly, but I find this interesting. Everybody knows "The Girl from Ipanema", right? I've got...

I had a pair of old Schoeps tube condensers. Worst audio decision of my life. Loads of self-noise, restricted dynamics, unreliable. They...

I wasn't at the actual recording sessions, I was providing recordings for the performers in advance of making the commercial recordings...

Herbert von Karajan had more than the usual level of input for his producers/engineers. A lot of his Berlin Philharmonic recordings for...

I have that album!

A recording, when played back in the right environment, can trigger the feeling of realism in the listener. I would argue strenuously...

I had that recording on LP.

I've got a CD from Denon - DDD. Beethoven: "Archduke Trio", performed by the Suk Trio. Session recordings were from 1975; the CD came...

All recordings are artifice. A portrait of someone is real even though it is a photograph or a painting and not that actual real life...