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    Great recordings of classical music

    How silly and annoying. I watched it a few weeks ago - and for me as well, it's blocked. Thankfully, vpns exist!
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    Great recordings of classical music

    A most unexpected find - both the disc, and the person who knows of this! I found a few months ago a series of videos, Great Conductors of the Past. Here's the one in which Mengelberg appears, as he conducts the Concertgebouw in Paris:
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    New Beatles Song!

    I thought I'd link the new Beatles song, which came out today: it's pretty good!
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    Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

    Indisputable, you say? I wish to dispute. Period
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    XSA Labs Vanguard Speaker Review

    Seems @amirm posted the spinorama twice, rather than the early reflections
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    Sennheiser HD800S Review (Headphone)

    Just in case you're not aware, ProQ's Q values are not the same as those provided by oratory1990: oratory1990's must be equated to ProQ's with an annoying equation, dependant on frequency, bitrate and Q value: Qp = Qo*(2*π*(f/b))/sin(2*π*(f/b))*√(2) , where Qp is ProQ's Q value, Qo is...
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    Sennheiser HD800S Review (Headphone)

    You are quite right. I have indeed performed this experiment - and also found there to be not much difference in spatial effects. However, I did notice a fairly large difference when I removed the spatial effects bands from the HD800. I suspected (and still do, at least in part), that spatial...
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    Sennheiser HD800S Review (Headphone)

    Yes, the soundstage is absolutely affected. This effect is realised at around 7 - 9 kHz*. I simply leave the HD800 untouched in this crucial area. You can test this yourself: put in a fairly sharp peaking filter around 8 kHz, and play with the amplitude. Note how spatial effects are affected. Be...
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    Most beautiful speakers in the world ?

    Pretty... uh... speaker. Yeah.
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    Let's talk about food!

    From your description, you've made deliscious tahdig! Unfortunately, your links are utterly broken, and show up as a string of text.
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    EverSolo Z8 DAC & Amp Review

    Another fine review. @amirm, the Top 20 DAC graph has a typo in the company's name
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    Recommendations for Mid-20th Century and later classical composers

    Shockingly, no-one has mentioned Benjamin Britten of War Requiem fame. I had the greatest pleasure to sing this moving work with the local symphonic orchestra. By the last performance, the final movement had me in such an emotive state, that I couldn't even see the notes on the page. Anyway...
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    Album of the Year

    Before this thread gets sidetracked, let's discuss the current ideas: 1: A generic Album of the Year. How this is agreed upon has several different methods: 1.1: Free for all: we each pick one, and the number of upvotes wins; 1.1.1: A year-long free-for-all thread, in which...
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    Album of the Year

    Not what I'd had in mind - but not a bad idea! Indeed, I didn't have much in mind - other than celebrating a new album from the current year, and awarding it the completely arbitrary title of Best. I thought of including best album of various genres, but wanted to not influence discussion with...
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    Album of the Year

    Seems not very clear, that's there's no great desire for album of the year. Maybe strudel of the year?
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    Album of the Year

    Is there interest in having an ASR Album of the Year award? Perhaps for different genres, if there's interest? Ranked choice ballot? Jurors - or everyone can vote for anything? Discuss!
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    Revel F208 Tower Speaker Review

    This is researched by Todd Welti: https://www.harman.com/documents/multsubs_0.pdf From the conclusion: "One subwoofer at each wall midpoint is the best in terms of Std, Max-ave and Max-min but does not support low frequencies particularly well. Two subwoofers, at opposing wall midpoints...
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    JBL A180 Tower Speaker Review

    To play devil's advocate, if the information is so commonly available, searching for (if indeed it even needs searching for) and including it in a review will take a trivial amount of time; and in no way preclude further reviews being made
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