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| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Schubert and all,Not sure what is going on but I have posted several times and the posts are not appearing.A couple of points here. First of all Schubert, hearing recorded classical music makes one want to hear more of it. Not necessarily live. In... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Schubert, The subject of orchestras failing or in deep trouble has been discussed previously. I am not familiar with the situation in St. Paul. Is the failure due to lack of audience or scaled back donations from deep pocketed patrons? In any case... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Frogman,2 things. 1. Good read2. How is it possible that none of us put Benjamin Britten on the list? I am rather ashamed of myself for such an egregious oversight. | |
| When did you know you're different? One day, almost exactly 40 years ago, I walked uptown and went into the College bookstore. I bought the 9 symphonies of Beethoven, the Mahler 9th, and the Bach Johannes Passion for a total of $16. Though I did not know it at the time, that was the... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Jmcgrogan2, My worst fear is that the movie Idiocracy is a forward looking documentary, in which case you may very well be right. Schutz, Bach, Bach, Stamitz, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler, Shostakovich, Madonna, Bieber, Swi... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Shostakovich, Ligeti, Penderecki, Part, Adams, maybe even Elliot Carter and Jennifer Higdon will stand the test of time. People want to perpetuate this myth that Beethoven and Mozart were the "Beatles of their time." In actual fact, much of Beetho... | |
| Magnepan 3.7 and Nuforce Reference 18 Cats are not an audiophiles best friend. That would be dogs. Even with declawing, cats still try to claw, not realizing they don't have claws. I would worry about that with the ribbons. They are pretty fragile. The old ADS speakers with the metal ... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Waxwaves and Audiolabyrinth, the electrical work is on the agenda as soon as my son gets his stuff out of the basement.Its just so weird with these power cables. There seemed to be no particular rhyme or reason to which cable worked best with a pa... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Onhwy61, I certainly didn't take your thread as being critical. It was a very good question. Beleive me, no one could have been more suprised than me that these power cords made such a dramatic difference. The third AirSine arrived last night and ... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Onhwy61. You are correct in pointing out a seeming dichotomy. I recognized the dichotomy at the time I experienced it. I thought it was important for that dichotomy to be described as a part of my experience. In answer to your questions, when I re... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Zenblaster, That is a really good question, and I asked myself that same question as I compared the cords. Read my answer to Charles1dad above, then let me add the following. I bought the two new cords for my monoblock Cary amps. Rather than put a... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Charles1dad,Good question. Let me start by saying that I was able to borrow 4 AirSines from my friend for 2 weeks, which gave me a good bit of time to switch cords around and see what mixture of the AirSines plus my existing cords gave the best ov... | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Jymc,I bought a couple of VH audio AirSines with Furutech FI-50 plugs and IECs. Stunning resolution, and they took a bit of a nasty nasal tone out of my Cary amps that I didn't know was there until I heard the amp with AirSines. There was also jus... | |
| What's a properly lit 6SN7 tube look like? My 6SN7s glow top and bottom. | |
| Have cables become somewhat of a snake-oil topic. Detlof, this is why try before you buy is the way to go. You want to charge 1K for a set of ICs? Fine, I will think about it if you beat my 0.1K Mogamis. Bring your A game, and I will pay the money.I just spent 2.3K on two power cords. Yes, they a... |