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The Diner / Re: What are you currently rea...

Last post by Mandryka - Today at 01:36:19 AM

I liked Daniel Deronda more than Middlemarch.

I got bored by all the Zionism stuff, and so abandoned it. But it started well, maybe I should go back to it and try again.

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The Diner / Re: How is the weather?

Last post by 71 dB - Today at 01:30:22 AM

After the very long winter we are finally having warmer weather this week. +12°C (54°F) in Helsinki.

Finnish bedrock is among the most stable in the World and I have personally never experienced an earthquake in my life. Some areas of Finland experience small tremors sometimes, but they are very weak and harmless. 3.0 on Richter scale is massive in Finland!

In Kuusamo, one of the most seismically active areas in Finland (700 km from Helsinki) has been an earthquake of magnitude 2.0. Yes, earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 on Richter scale are news in Finland.

In English: https://yle.fi/a/74-20086619

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The Diner / Re: Non-Classical Music Listen...

Last post by 71 dB - Today at 01:08:30 AM

I can emphatize with you, but hold a less pessimistic view. Nostalgia darkens the present. Maybe you should read Nietzsche, who looks far into the future.

For me nostalgia makes the present more tolerable, less dark. We are perhaps going back to the middle ages undoing enlightenment and choosing barbarism over humanism, but at least there was a time when man went to the Moon and humankind had a vision for better future. The future we envisioned decades ago is here, but it sucks for the most part. At least it is a massive disappointment for me. I have previously been ignoring the past too much. I always looked into the future with high hopes. Doing so I have been lost, because the past shaped me and made me what I am. Life has tought me some lessons and now I have much more realistic expectations for the future. Future has stopped looking better than the past. I have even started to fear the future. I doubt Nietzsche, who died in 1900 and knew nothing about the World today, would change my mind.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: Musical depictions of the ...

Last post by Luke - May 01, 2024, 11:33:23 PM

I went there for the book too; it;'s a lot more local than Orkney! This is Maggi Hambling's Britten-homage sculpture Scallop on Aldeburgh beach.

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Que - May 01, 2024, 11:22:56 PM

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Irons - May 01, 2024, 11:09:14 PM

Violin Sonata: Grace Williams.



A strong piece with plenty to say.

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Composer Discussion / Re: Jewish Composers

Last post by Roy Bland - May 01, 2024, 10:47:25 PM

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by andolink - May 01, 2024, 10:29:50 PM

Delightful music by lesser known contemporaries of Haydn and Mozart. Perfomances and sound are both superb - -

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The Diner / Re: Non-Classical Music Listen...

Last post by AnotherSpin - May 01, 2024, 09:29:59 PM

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The Diner / Re: What audio system do you h...

Last post by AnotherSpin - May 01, 2024, 09:27:47 PM

What??? No!! I would never do such a thing.

     My AVR, like almost all modern ones, handles DSD just fine through HDMI. So does my PC through my USB Dac.

Since my systems could play dsd/dff always, I never did such conversion as a rule, for tests only. However, I have known people who had to do it, either out of necessity or convenience.