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    Ron’s New System

    The late Dave Wilson listening to a rehearsal by the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein's Goldener Saal (Wien)...
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    Ron’s New System

    ma... io...no!"
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    The Greatest Hi-Fi Product of All Time

    https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/stacked-pairs-of-esl-57s-with-supertweeters-anyone-still-hears-these-speakers.15179/ Thank you very much. Or try this one...
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    ============================================================= After "explosive"... ART Blakey, please, light a cigar & open a XO cognac to hear ballads "in your room" ( guaranteed...) from this one ( LP) : Previously pressed on white color vinyl for Record Store Day 2016, Ben Webster's Gone...
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    Please absolutely no commercial interest here: only a happy user of Preamp Cortese for over 15 years ... Monday, April 9, 2018 What is your experience for the most liquidity and presence of midrange and emotion, if not an all DHT tube rectified transformer coupled pre-amp ? I was asked...
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    Quoted from: http://supratekaudio.blogspot.com/2012/
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10,000 Maniacs A lot of you aren't going to like this post. Its not about Natalie Merchants old band, but the amount of time it is acknowledged it takes to become very proficient in an art or discipline, and that is roughly 10,000 hours. Its by no means definitive...
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    My beloved old Quads ESL 57 "performing" in " horror movie "Peeping Tom" (U.K. 1960)
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    AARON COPLAND "An imaginative mind is essential to the creation of art in any medium, but it is even more essential in music precisely because music provides the broadest possible vista for the imagination since it is the freest, the most abstract, the least fettered of all the arts...
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    What's Best? The Absolute Sound or today's High End Systems?

    "For those of us who love all things musical—concerts, the smell of concert halls, rehearsals, programs, instruments, composers, and their biographies, sheet music, instrument makers, recordings, engineers, studios, tape recorders, microphones, amplifiers, speakers, pre-amps, cables...
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    This is insane...the Quad ESL

    Some british gentleman said this: LintoMayor of Simpleton Location:South East London, England, Great Britain I have spent 25 years on this very subject. The very best is the Radford 15 watts or the Quad IIs, but both matching pre amps are poor, so...

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