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| Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice Fantastic documentary. Had a chance to see her live at Baker Center in Athens. Had to say no. Sucks being a poor student. Regret that decision to this day. | |
| Best tubes for Modwright Oppo UDP-205 and why? ...(6922, 5AR4, GZ34, 5R4GYS 5U4, 5V4) I have a ModWright Hapz-1ES which uses the same 6922 tube output. I'm using sophia aqua 274B in the PS 9.0. Huge improvement over everything else I've used. more meat on the bones, air, you name it. Surprising improvement from a rectifier. I... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I've been in Cleveland twice in the last decade for Cleveland Orchestra concerts. Both times I was amazed at how many young people there were. Seemed like 40-50% looked to be in their 30s or 40s. Elsewhere, mostly late 60's and older. | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? @rvpiano, I will list the symphonies in order with my preferred conductor. NSP = no strong preference. 3 (Haitink), ,1(Abaddo), 6(Bernstein), 4(Solti), 2 (NSP), 5(Jansons), 8(Wit), 9(NSP), Das Lied(Zinman), 7(Zinman), 10(Zinman). | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? I have the Jansons 5. I am not a fan of 5, and don't listen much. The Jansons is my favorite of those I own. It is a beautiful recording and adequate performance I suppose, but take that with a grain of salt since 5 is near the bottom of my Mah... | |
| Tube Amps With Good Bass Qualities @luisma31, I've stuck with the SED winged C power tubes. I haven't seen anything likely to be better for any kind of reasonable cost. I've done a good bit of tube rolling on the 6SN7s, using a few NOS RCA, Sylvania, and GE tubes, as well as a fe... | |
| Tube Amps With Good Bass Qualities Another vote for Atman-Sphere. I have the M-60s with the upgraded power supply driving speakers that are basically 10 Ohms (minimum is about 8, I think), and the bass is deep and articulate. I couldn't be happier. But as has been well articula... | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording Curentzis-- ditto what mahler123 said. It is more of an audiophile showpiece than an insightful piece of art. A pretty woman with no depth. | |
| Who else here is frugal? There was a time when I was quite frugal. Now, my approach is pretty close to that articulated by @almarg. I'm not afraid to spend some bucks, but I am very careful and usually do so after a good bit of research and thinking about the purchase ... | |
| Hornshoppe "the Truth" preamp - any opinions? The CSL with the Franks can be very good when paired with a very high efficiency speaker. I really enjoyed them paired with my 94dB efficient Coincident Triumph Extreme II monitors, especially with the Elrog 300B tubes which unfortunately don't h... | |
| Hornshoppe "the Truth" preamp - any opinions? Bill, thanks for your careful A/B of my Coincident CSL with your Truth. A couple of comments for those trying to decide between these two fine choices. In my system, I am not currently hearing any ground loop issues. The Coincident is drivin... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings My first Bruckner was Barenboim/Chicago #4, followed by HvK #9, followed by Jochum/Dresden 6 and 8, all on vinyl. It was the Jochum that pulled me in on Bruckner. Barenboim put me to sleep and HvK had me looking over my shoulder in fear. I reall... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings @mahler123, What an insightful comment regarding Jochum's use of rubato! Also interesting is your reaction to it. Your comments resulted in me spending most of the day thinking about, but not listening to, Bruckner. I agree completely with y... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings @mahler123, I hear what you are saying with respect to Bruckner suffering from bad recordings. I too, can listen to Toscanini recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, etc all day long.I'm going to go out on a very long limb here, and no doubt loos... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I'm looking for a recommendation for Benjamin Britten Op. 28 A ceremony of Carols. We heard a couple of the carols last night at church and my wife fell in love with them. Me too. What are your favorite recordings? |