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I stand corrected. Interestingly Sir Georg Solti was never appointed as the Director of Hungarian State Opera. Not exactly a fan of his Wagner…

The best private opera company these days is Glynderbourne Opera imo. They brought out all the Masonic elements in Mozart’s Die Zauberflaute the most succinctly. Have always encouraged peers in my circle to volunteer themselves as their patrons.

You left out Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, New York Metropolitan, Dresden Semperoper etc etc..Mahler was more well known as the Director of Vienna State Opera and later New York Metropolitan Opera than Hungarian State Opera imo. Someone just complained to me two...

Boy in this video is really ugly and silly-looking and sounding, and so is anyone who is in any way part of the property market. Never failed to cringe when any of these act-smart and talk-big videos appear in my feed, some even behaving like they are some media celebrities or economists. Never...

I can vaguely remember PS as one of those hanging around with the Soci Honours kids at the table outside the Soci Honours Room around 1999/2000. Same period, same faculty but different majors with YSL, Brandon Teo, Hermann Adullah and Peh Shing Huei. One can include Eugene Tan also as he was...

Blue LEDs is a Freemason invention.

That Jipson POS and ugly Iris should be locked up forever. Two real scums.

Not exactly a fan. Never a fan of HK culture. But I did find their early works interesting. One full Masonic-themed album, and another with a few Masonic pieces in 1992. Very rare for an Asian group. During my younger days, I found these lower-middle class background “boys” intellectually...

To me, their commercially successful pieces are all over-rated and artistically crabby. I bought all their albums since 1986 on the first day of release as a support. When I bought 乐与怒 in 1993, I thought 海阔天空 must be the worst piece ever written and produced. Recycled basic harmonic progression...

This is creepy. Last night I thought I heard Ka Kui crying to me as I was listening to their Masonic album. I bet none of the Beyond fans even know one of their albums is Masonic. I dun listen to their post 1987 popular and commercial stuffs.

Augustine of Hippo (St’ Augustine) was a Manichaeist before converting to Christianity. Due to the the Manichaeists’ involvement in the White Lotus Society, there is a school of thought that the word Ming of the Ming Dynasty actually alludes to Manichaeism. World history is a lot more...

Quan Zhou remains the only place outside Iran today with a Manichaeist Temple. The Manichaeists were also involved in the White Lotus Society during the last years of the Yuan. Very interesting history here.

I took out my old Richard Allan RA-8 II speakers (ie old school bass sound) to connect to a SMSL Class-D amp just now after reading this thread. Totally un-listenable. Very JBL low-fi-ish sounding with those bass as mentioned. Quickly swooped back to B&W.

Neumann active speakers are very good. But I believe they only have balanced inputs (I may be wrong). Isolation is key in taming bass. I use the highest end Isoteks. Sonos and Bose are only mid-fi. But it seems that practically every specialist doctors and surgeons I know like Bose, Sonos and...

Low budget: Audioengine A5+ Spending a bit more: B&W entry level+ a Wiim or SMSL amp with Bluetooth; or Dynaudio active speakers. Even a bit more: ATC active speakers I use all the above in my different rooms all cabled, with power conditioner, Fostex DACs plus proper isolation. Bluetooth is...

Husband 黄贯中。

天若有情天亦老，人间正道是沧桑。The title of this song is actually based on the poem written impromptu by Mao Tse Tong immediately after the success of the 百万雄狮过大江 campaign (one million PLA soldiers crossing the Yang Tze capturing Nanjing).

There are already popular Teachers for each niche of the market (the elites, the upper-middle, the middle-middle and the lower-middle class). The current running thought regardless of which niche is to get a teacher who already has a reputation of producing good result. There are $200/hour...

He is probably not as good as the countless young conductors out there in the scene in Europe and the Balkans. The Balkan scene is not easy to break into contrary to what one may believe. I did not even bother to read the whole article after seeing his name and hippie hairstyle. Did he conduct...