Jason Victor Serinus

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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 27, 2020  |  2 comments
When I was 11, my father brought home the voice of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) in a three-LP box set whose faux leather cover and sepia-tinted photos I admired over and over. When he put on the Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, I exclaimed, "Daddy, I've heard that before!"

"Yeah, you broke it when you were 2," he replied.

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Streaming Salvation for the Sequestered--UPDATED OFTEN
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 25, 2020  |  19 comments
• Just underway (6pm eastern) and running through the same time tomorrow: the Music Never Sleeps NYC, a 24-hour music livestream in support of the Local 802 Musicians’ Emergency Relief Fund and the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund
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Music Matters Returns to Definitive Audio Seattle
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 15, 2020  |  86 comments
With the COVID-19–related cancelation of Munich High End and the postponement or cancelation of other national and regional audio shows, smaller, local events such as Seattle’s 15-year old Music Matters event, which returned to Definitive Audio Seattle on March 5–6, have gained importance—at least as long as they are able to avoid being shut down.
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Montreal Audiofest Reschedules for May, Previous Munich Dates
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 13, 2020  |  First Published: Mar 12, 2020  |  4 comments
In a press release issued just a few minutes ago, the organizers of the Montreal Audiofest announced plans to reschedule their postponed show for 15–17 May, the original dates of the now-canceled High End Munich show.
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AXPONA 2020 Postponed until August
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 09, 2020  |  18 comments
Monday, March 9, 2020 AXPONA, the largest audio expo in the Western hemisphere, has moved its dates at Chicago’s Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center to August 7–9.
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High-End Munich Canceled
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Jason Victor Serinus  |  Feb 28, 2020  |  17 comments
(February 28) High End 2020, aka Munich High End, has been canceled “due to the current worsening trend with respect to the spread of the novel coronavirus.”
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Métronome Technologie AQWO SACD/CD transport and D/A processor
CD Player/Transport ReviewsDigital Processor Reviews
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Feb 21, 2020  |  9 comments
In an era when polar opposites compete as absolutes, it can be a challenge to acknowledge the different and equally valid ways in which audiophiles approach musical truth. But the reality is that our perceptions of how reproduced music should sound are determined, to a large extent, by how we approach the live experience.
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Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum HD line preamplifier
Audacious AudioSolid State Preamp Reviews
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 29, 2020  |  94 comments
I thought I knew what a preamp could do. But when the Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum HD preamplifier ($40,000) arrived for review, all my expectations flew out the window.
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Recording of February 2020: Farinelli
Recording of the Month
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 17, 2020  |  24 comments
B>Cecilia Bartoli: Farinelli
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano; Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, cond.
Decca 4850214 (24/96 download). 2019. Arend Prohmann, prod. and editor; Philip Siney, eng.
Performance: *****
Sonics: ****

When I first heard mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in person some 29 years ago, at her West Coast debut in the "Cal Performances" series at Berkeley's Hertz Hall, she was just 24 years old. Along with the rest of the audience, I was astonished at her ability to ally phenomenal coloratura technique with an out-of-the-box range of expression—unheard since the prime of Maria Callas. It was clear why Decca had already signed her and released her first recording the year before, when she was just 23.

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Some Joy for the New Decade
Jason Victor Serinus
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Dec 28, 2019  |  28 comments
As the decade draws to a close, many of us choose to gather with people we love so that together we can celebrate and give thanks for our blessings. In that spirit, I offer a new hybrid SACD/Download of a perennial favorite, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Op. 125 “Choral” (BIS 2451), whose memorable finale celebrates the joy of oneness with humanity and the divine.
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