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| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? The only Sony "uber-" SACD player I heard was WAY too long ago: SCD-1 (at a dealer); and that was enough. Sony knew how to design around its format, and you literally had to drag me out of the listening room. The sound was so good for DSD I forg... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Well, you have the Greatest name possible so you should get the best in music as well. Let me know good or bad . Happy New Year ! @jim5559 - this warmed my heart like none other in any forum. :-) Happy New Year to you as well; and I will let ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jim5559 Well another DG,DG469-052-2 Shaham.Meyer.and Jian Wang, Chung is best I know. Another good one is DelosCD303, Chamber Music Northwest. If you can find one . Missed your post (and holidays have been hectic, as usual); just found b... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? @mikem Got it; thanks for the feedback! I'll be on the lookout for these. | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? Daedalus Athena V2's @mikem , these are intriguing; never heard (of) them. Did you audition first before settling? And if so, linking this to the OP - what made you choose them? Curiosity's got me now... 😀 | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? Following this discussion: curious as to a transition (back) to SS as I'm enjoying wallowing around in tube warmth ATM. | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? It is not perfect, but if you learn how to read those graphs, you can learn a lot about how it will interact with your room. I understand how to read them, but was agreeing with @vinylvalet ’s statement that we should not decide on speakers sol... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? BTW, I respectably disagree with buying speakers based solely on measurements. Agree here too; frequency response and other measurements are typically done in a controlled, maybe anechoic, environment. They will measure much more differently in ... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? As much as I love car talk, staying OT: I know the sound I like and as soon as I heard Vandersteen’s I stopped looking. I love the immediacy of 'Steens. First introduced with a Model 3A (non-Sig), I found them only intriguing until the dealer... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? How close the speakers are at portraying the live event, whether it be a chamber ensemble, symphony orchestra, intimate jazz performance, or an outdoor rock concert. No speaker that I've run into can replicate that spectrum perfectly - there are ... | |
| Evaluating your speakers That's the SPL test, wait till he tells you about the endurance test. Same thing for 24 hours. The problem is the PD negotiator may not hold out the whole 24 hours. They might rush the joint, then the record will skip for sure. ROFL - I'm dyin... | |
| SS Preamp with Tube Amps? Don't se it often. Why? People are less afraid of low power cheap preamp tubes than high power expensive amp tubes. This was the issue holding me back from taking the plunge into tube amplification - just pain scared of the arrays of power tubes: cost, biasing, mainte... | |
| Evaluating your speakers The method I learned, crank em up until the neighbors complain. If by the time the police come the speakers are still working they pass. Haha; nice one! | |
| hearing loss and speaker selection @batman1 I’ve been looking at Focals for a shift from my Dunlavys due to the former's signature emphasis in the upper frequencies (what I’ve been told). Did you move to Focal from more neutral speakers? As much as I love my Dunlavys, as my hear... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I just picked up DGs 1988 issue of Messiaen's quartet (Barenboim, et. al.) and it's incredible. Any other recommended recordings of this piece? I need a couple of more interpretations! |