bkeske
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| Victory at Sea - original LPs Vs Remastered LP or CD To me, it all depends. At times the original pressing is better than a ‘remaster’ or ‘reissue’, and sometimes not. I certainly would not discount a reissue if the price is right vs a high cost original. There are times when collectors drive up the... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Slatkin conducts Vaughan Williams Symphony 3 & 4. Philharmonia Orchestra. RCA Red Seal. 1993CD | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Emerson String Quartet - Anton Webern : Works for String Quartet, String Trio. Deutsche Grammophon 1995CD | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Gunzenhauser conducts Prokofiev Symphonies #1 & 5. Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. NAXOS 1989 GermanyCD | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Grieg Serenades. Orchestre de Chambre Ferenc Liszt conducted by Janos Rolla. Harmonia Mundi 1991 GermanyCD | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Butterfield Blues Band - Sometimes I Feel Like Smiling. Elektra 1971 | |
| What/who do you listen to that you feel is a bit of an unknown? @roberjerman Tom Rapp/ Pears Before Swine - late Sixties psychedelic rock! "Balaclava"!Oh man, I thought I was the only one ;-) I think I have all their albums on vinyl, and at least one Tom Rapp single album. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? George Harrison - All Things Must Pass. Apple 1970 | |
| Vandersteen Model 1 Driver Failure: Worth Fixing? Depends on which model of 1’s you have. I have a set of 1’s from probably the late 90’s/early 20’s. I only paid about $325 for them shipped in really great condition. It won’t take much to spend as much as their worth on repairs. You might try Mil... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Zubin Mehta and Pinchas Zukerman with the Los Angeles Philharmonic - Bruch violin concerto #1, Lalo Symphony Espangnole. Columbia Master Works, originally 1979, but this seems to be a reissue.really nice recording and performance | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Partita for Double String Orchestra. London Philharmonic. Angel 1976 (actually a quadraphonic recording 😮). | |
| Sub Not Waking Up Actually YPAO is notorious for setting the sub level via LFE too low regardless of the gain setting at the sub, which as I said, thus I always adjusted it manually when using LFE with my receiver. Albeit I don’t do that anymore. But yes, as I also... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw I missed your posting brother.Aw, thanks man. Missed you guys too, but not as bad as missing my system 😁and it was only a couple of days..... | |
| Will a $700 turntable outperform a CD player? Many turntables will outperform a CD player if natural SQ is desired. That’s all folks. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Just got back from being out of town the last day and half, and, finally, getting to play some music...Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields : selections by Wagner, Faure, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Dvorak, & Boccherini. Angel 1980Good... |