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| Comparing complete Beethoven Symphonies on SACD The 5-7 conducted by Kleiber on DG has been reissued as sacd. That is a very good, if not the best, version of thesetwo symphonies. | |
| Best bargain for speaker that can offer top sound For classical music: BW 801 S3, for example. | |
| Amps for Avantgarde A friend of mine is driving Avantgarde Trios with an Altman amp. wonderful sound. It is so cheap, that you could not loose much to try out. | |
| dedicated 70's rock system First of all active speakers, secondly: old JBL models, like 250Ti driven by old krell or levinson models. | |
| beautiful piano recordings: solo or small ensemble Just a few names of great pianists, who you could trust that they, as an average, play wonderfully: Svjatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Géza Anda, András Schiffer, Annie Fischer, Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Rubinstein, Schnabel, Malcolm Bilson, etc | |
| Ultimate Outlet vs. PS Audio P300 I have both. Ultimate outlet mostly impacts and cleans upper frequencies, making the soundprint more detailed and faster. The P300 powerplant has a different impact: it makes the sound more palpable and gives weight to instruments, increases micro... | |
| Silver IC's for tubed preamp/monoblocks Any, but I like the rscables silver ic. | |
| CD Player Recommendations 5-8k range please help I would add a PS audio P300. It would make more analogoue sounding the ML 390s, while arguably would also benefit all source analog componenst and your preamp. | |
| Handel's Messiah? McGegan is very good, Also nice Hogwood with period instruments. | |
| PRat: a DAC or transport thing? DAC and transport equally important: bad transport could make an otherwise good dac slow and mudded, while a good transport could be "slowed down" by a bad dac. Still, I think, the most important thing is the amp-loudspeaker relationship. Unfortun... | |
| Classical SACD's to die for Mahler 6th Symphony, Fischer Ivan conductor, Budapest Fesztivál Orchestra, Channel Classics,Mahler 2nd Symphony, Fischer Ivan conductor, Budapest Fesztivál Orchestra, Channel Classics, | |
| 80's System Needs Upgrade Oh, most new things are plastic consumer-luring things with fancy look, and with lot of coloration in order to able to occupy a niche in the taste-market of audiophiles. Easy to get different sound, and easy to buy all kind of auxaliry things to m... | |
| floor stander suggestions If you like the sound of your speaker, a used dynaudio contour 2.8 with esotar tweeter. Or anything else. | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions Aronov 960LSI is fairly good. You could get one around 1000 usd, and far better than the cambridge stuff. | |
| Best Power Cord for Mark Levinson 390S CD PLayer Elrod signiture2 maybe the best. |