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User Details - Polly Nomial
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John Broggio | |
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Amateur classical musician who's found better sound at home! I play violin in a semi-pro symphony orchestra and a similar standard of chamber orchestra. Away from this I play in a number of chamber ensembles on both piano and violin. My interests are wide and deep when it comes to classical music and I also take more than a passing interest in world music, largely due to the experiences I've had whilst holidaying worldwide. If anyone has inside information about recordings listed here, particularly those I've reviewed, please feel free to share them with me. Perhaps you'd like to agree or disagree with something I've said - either way, that is fine by me. I always welcome comments (publicly or privately) and aim to respond speedily. My user name comes from a corruption of a type of mathematical function (I am a maths teacher by day...) and I don't go around in drag in real life (except for the odd fancy dress party). |
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Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK | |
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Symphony Hall, Birmingham! | |
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jbroggio@sa-cd.net | |
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Yesterday 04:52 pm
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| "One day someone may invent an ECONOMICAL and practical way of storing analogue" - they have, it's called DSD! "when this happens the current digital systems will be history and looked back upon as a poor wrong road that the industry took for the wrong reasons." - unlikely; it's the best solution currently commercially viable and progress is full ... more | |
Yesterday 04:45 pm
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| "Whats the point of a wide dynamic range if you are only playing a simple solo guitar etc stupid argument." - Agreed but as you well know, the musical canon consists of far more music than just that written for solo guitar (beautiful though it can be). A great deal of this music calls for dynamics from ppppp to ffff and for music like that, one ... more | |
Yesterday 04:23 pm
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| "With loudspeakers still a technology of the dark ages (circa 1930)All playback systems have limitations ,even your mysterious un named system." - Agreed although some have far greater limitations than others. "Also Picking out any small sets of measurement paramaters which may or may not be relevant to prove your point is Rediculous and smacks ... more | |
Yesterday 04:13 pm
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| Sony link here: http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/dsd/dsd.pdf (page 3). Also: http://www.cdfreaks.com/reviews/The-SuperAudio-CD-SACD-explained/The-SACD-solution-DSD.html Your opinion of my technical credibility may be zero; I would just note that many people (including those of the calibre of Erdo Groot) agree with my thinking in general ... more | |
Yesterday 03:47 pm
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| Look, we disagree whether or not one should seek to replicate the venue experience as closely as possible; I say "yes", you don't. If you were to say "yes", you would hopefully recognise that some instruments (for example organs) are almost always heard from above due to the positioning of their pipes in the churches/cathedrals/halls wrt to a ... more | |