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| Integrated with switchable voltage Just now is advertised an Aronov 930 tube interated for around 600. That is an integrated tube amplifier, which easy to convert back and forth. I could email you the datails how to do, if you interested. | |
| Your favorite J.S. Bach St. Matthew Passion, Gardiner is my long standing favourite, nowadays, however, I listen more the St. Johannes Passion, Harnancourt. | |
| Tube or solid state amp or amps? So many unknown variables around, but I think, at the end it is very important what type of music you typically listen. If modern rock, pop, blues - electronic music - than solid state perhaps a good option, if classical music: tubes are somewhat ... | |
| CD Players – life of laser My levinson 39 laser died after 5 years of fairly intensive use. According to the local service, this is not a unusual thing. Of course, there are may audiophile user, who plays music once a week a few hours. For them, laser-life could be 10 plus ... | |
| MY BEST DEAL My 1st best deal was to buy a second hand wilson benesch act one for abour 3000 usd. The second was to change the ML 331 poweramp to an Aronov tube integrated. Not only I got better sound at cheap, but allowed to sell all my fancy cords and cables... | |
| Speakers for NAIM amp/preamp Naim with Proac is a wonderful combination. | |
| Your favorite classical composers/works? May I add a few not so popular or well known musicians/lps/cds, which are immensely beautiful.Teleman, metodische sonatas, sony seon, a wonderful vollection of recorder/violin sonatas performed by the Boston Museum Trio and Frans Bruggen. Such a b... | |
| Mark Levinson No.383 matches Proac Res.2.5? Proac is very fine musical, and warm speaker. ML is a rather cold gear. I would not mix the two. They work against each other. Of course, it may good, but once you replace the ML with a NAIM, EAR or any fairly good tube amplifier you would likel z... | |
| Which integrated: Nait 5i, Panache or Shanling? I like the Naim Nait 5, it is a very good amplifier. However, I dont have the slightest idea how it would work with your speakers. None the less, as much I heard BW, I dont think that is an ideal speaker for classical. I would also look for a proa... | |
| Your favorite classical composers/works? Recently, I have seen a very interesting version of Monterverdi The Coronation of Poppea in Budapest, Hungary where I am living. This is one of the first operas ever written in 1643. This version was staged by Iván Fischer, the principal conductor... | |
| Phono amp recommendations Ear 834p has a very nice, naturally sounding soundprint. | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music I have just heard the V. Symphony of Shostakovitch, played by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Pinchas Steinbert. Oh what a tragically painful music on dictatorship and terror and pain felt by people. Unfortunately, the CD version I h... | |
| persoanlity and speaker preference The funny thing, that I also think that there is a linkage between one's personality and the characteristics of the soundprint of his or her system. Warm friendly people typically like warm, inviting, smooth, rounded sound - and their system do so... | |
| cables recommendation Alpha Goertz veracity MI2 a wonderful cable, cheap, and offers enough for most systems. | |
| Your favorite classical composers/works? Classical music has been always the music of the elite, be political, economic or cultural. Once, in the renessaince and barokk period, when the composed music became a genre own its own, was primarily the music for royal families and for their co... |