bkeske

Responses from bkeske

To venture back into vinyl or not,...that is the question.
Also noticed an older Thorens TD146 listed here for $599, but accepting offers. No cart though. Still, a solid basic table. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@boxer12 So sorry to hear man. I lost a brother, it’s no fun, to say the least, but from personal experience, very hard for a mother.Hang in there, and my deepest condolences to you and your family. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Know that feeling @big_greg Welcome home. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Szell conducts Haydn. Box set - Six London Symphonies. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1973 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
A daily learning curve. Between LP’s of the Hindemith set, I slid my fingers to the bottom edge of the SOTA, and realized the sub-assembly was sitting just slightly below the exterior plinth in the arm side, flush on the opposite side. Why all of ... 
Very humble beginnings............and yours?
Similar to Corelli, my very first ‘music box’ of any kind, that I could call my own, was a crystal radio set my father bought me when I was pretty young. Remember him teaching me about it, stringing the line antenna to a tree in the front yard, an... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Paul Hindemith - 7 Chamber Music works. Concerto Amsterdam. 3 LP set. Telefunken 1969Exquisite. 
Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned?
That would have to be my current Vandersteen 2CE Sig 1’s I purchased for $600. I just spent $3,750 on my new turntable rig, So it almost seem like they were free In comparison 😁 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Allegri String Quartet. Britten - String Quartets No. 1 & 2. London 1976 
Is there a logical successor to the mighty Sennheiser HD414/424?
Those were great headphones Uber. I had a set of the 424’s. Bought some newer Sennheiser’s (which I never really use), and although pretty good, went searching for that old set to compare, and could not find them anywhere. Unfortunately. I may hav... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Wasted 4 hours of my life taking half the lawn tractor to pieces just so I could refit the main drive belt.@uberwaltz Oh the joys of having a postal stamp size yard 😁I remember those days growing up with 2 acres to mow. I got to know the John Deer... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Guarneri Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman. Beethoven Quintet in C & Mendelssohn Quintet in B-flat. RCA Red Seal 1979 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
+1@slaw 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ahmad Jamal - Rossiter Road. Atlantic 1986 
What are you streaming tonight?
Watching The Berlin Philharmonic live via Digital Concert Hall. Today; Berg’s Concerto for violin and orchestra with Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Dvorak’s Symphony #5