Musical Musings and Audiophilic Ponderings

• ANGEL ROMERO, JULIA TORGOVITSKAYA, (and that other guy): VERISIMILITUDE AND VERIDICALITY
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  Romero achieved a supreme state of beneficent resignation while that Bloomington boy just got worse. By the end his playing was utter travesty. My companion that night is an amateur pianist. She kept giving me horrified looks when the pianist fumbled.
• RUMINATIONS ON ROOM TUNES: SOME NEGLECTED VARIABLES
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  And I once noted a major difference in a friend’s listening room when six guests, about to leave, stepped in with winter coats on. Grouped over at the right, they sucked the sound completely out of that side of the room.
• THE SMc AUDIO ULTRA DAC-1 UPGRADE: A REVIEW
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  Vocabulary is stunted when describing soundstaging. So I shall try for a more thorough explanation of what soundstage is in musical reproduction, analyzing its several different qualities.
• A REVIEW OF THE SMC AUDIO ULTRA MICRO PHONO DRIVE
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  Tubes can definitely sound better than solid state, but only for a short time. Tubes are a battle, and while we all are crazy enough to go to battle over something now and then (my battle is with setting up turntables impeccably), I am just not cut out for the travails that come with tubes.