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| Best Brandenburg Concerto recording CD Anyone heard the Apollo's Fire recording of the Brandenburgs? | |
| Recommended Shostakovich? The Kitajenko boxed set on Capriccio are pretty good accounts of the symphonies and are very good sounding SACDs. I also have the Barshai boxed set on Brilliant and the Mariss Jansons boxed set on EMI. All 3 sets are winners, but the Capriccio win... | |
| Schubert The Pentatone release is very good both in terms of the sonics (RB and SACD) and the performance. The "filler," esp. the notturno, is just wonderful. This one gets a lot of play at my house. | |
| Pass XA60.5's or Cary CAD 500 MB for Maggie 1.7? Keni,I think that is a sound approach (no pun intended). I spent a good long while deciding on the Cary's, then waited another good long while for a pair to show up on Agon. In the end, we listen to a whole system, so Cary/Maggie may be better for... | |
| Pass XA60.5's or Cary CAD 500 MB for Maggie 1.7? I haven't heard both amps, but I've used the Cary 500 MBs for a couple of years with my 1.6QRs. The Carys run cool. They don't put out nearly as much heat as my McCormack DNA 1 monoblocks did. I would describe the Cary/Maggie midrange as heavenly.... | |
| Looking for warm sounding speakers I think you will want to listen before you buy. The articulate bass of the ads coupled with the smooth treble is hard to find. If you can find a modern acoustic suspension type that has soft dome silk tweeter, that would be ideal. | |
| Mahler, Piano and Strings in A Minor Archive music sells the CD you are looking for by the Prazak. This work is not typical of Mahler. If you like chamber music, or simple arrangements, Mahler is not likely to be your cup of tea. | |
| Power cable for Sony SCD-XA5400ES Thanks so much guys. It't not a C7. I took the three prong off of the computer and it does work , so it looks like that is it. On closer examination, one side is marked N and the other is L, so the plug is polarized with proper polarity directed b... | |
| Classics you can't have too many recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas. Beethoven's quartets. Beethoven's Symphonies. Did I mention I like Beethoven? Then there is Bach. The Matthew and John passions. The cello sonatas. The Sonatas and Partitas for violin. | |
| Moving from the Magnepan 3.6 to the 20.1 Stickman,I have no experience with 3.6R's, but I have used Cary 500MB's with my 1.6QR's for about 1.5 yrs. I bought the amps anticipating a move up to 3.6R's, but they have been such a wonderful upgrade that I decided to put my purchase of 3.6's o... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 Ronwills,Thanks for the post and please keep us updated as the 1.7's break in. Your comments about the improved coherence are intriguing. To me, that would be the one most annoying "flaws" in the 1.6's, although they are good in this area compared... | |
| Contemporary composers. Please help. I'd like to mention Britten's string quartets. This maybe heresy, but I prefer them over Bartok's quartets. I like the Belcea Quartet's recording of these works. Also, check out Jennifer Higdon's piano trio and look for her violin concerto for whi... | |
| maggie 1.6qr Forgot to mention-- I prefer the tweeters on the outside. | |
| maggie 1.6qr I have 1.6's in a room that is practically identical to your larger 14 x 16 room. I have them set up 5 ft out with maybe a little more space on the sides. My listening chair is all the way back against the opposite wall. I have listened closer, bu... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 Mchd,I have had a pair of 1.6QR's for 11 yrs. In that time I've gone from an Adcom 5500 to a McCormack DNA 0.5 deluxe to McCormack DNA 1.0 deluxe monoblocks to Cary 500 MB's. Each step in the progression was a step forward, but I had a pretty nice... |