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| 12 years or 18 years? jim204 -- How could I have forgotten the Cardu? Yumm. | |
| Religious music for less than devout A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten. On Argo Records. Choir of Saint John's College, Cambridge. | |
| 12 years or 18 years? Hey guys, I currently have a Balvenie 12 year old in the liquor cabinet, too. It distresses me to say, though, that it's just the tiniest bit generic for me tastes. | |
| Silver is the appropriate color for everything but speakers. Yeah, it seems the vast majority of today's audio clientele won't take anything but black in a component. It's something that enabled me to save a nice handful of cash when I pulled the trigger on a silver Mytek BB instead of a black one. It did... | |
| Vinyl News I prefer my vinyl with pepperoni, anchovies and olives. | |
| 12 years or 18 years? Before I got derailed onto high-end Cognac & Armagnac I was into single-malts. Talisker is a heck of a good whisky, and so is Laphroaig. I remember being at a bar in Edinburgh Scotland. The wizened old Scot beside me ordered me to try a Duf... | |
| Seems like a lot of folks are putting their Primaluna amps for sale... A couple days ago I saw an ad for a reasonably priced Jadis Integrated in the my latest issue of....was it Stereophile? The mouth watered. Should I chuck my 'Luna, now several-years-old? I remembered how superb a Jadis Integrated sounded when I... | |
| 12 years or 18 years? Try Delamain Cognac, I'm too poor to buy anything more than their bargain basement Pale and Dry but it's still in the Hundred Dollar range. Utter luxury. Sweet, rich and complex, with a long, long finish. It demands to be drunk slowly. | |
| Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer You jokers have lured me into measuring the width of the shelf space occupied by the artists who most dominate my collection. Box sets get undeserved bonuses thanks to the extra width contributed by the box itself. LPs only! I ain't gonna try a... | |
| Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer I love a lot of composers, musicians and genres, but the ones I've built sizable collections of include Bowie, The Byrds, The Doors, Dylan, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Bartok, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Genesis, Tchaikovsky, Fritz... | |
| The Forest for the Trees I can manage mediocre music (for at least a little while) if the reproduction is good enough and if the music is good enough I can stand a pretty terrible recording, but when it's a great recording of great music I'm on top of the world. I gotta ... | |
| Long distance move - Trust moving company unpack My big move was fraught with paranoia over my various precious components. I packed the components myself, lavishing enough care to drive my wife to distraction. The SOTA turntable, of course, was by far the trickiest. It weighs a ton. Lots of spr... | |
| Pangea Distributing -- anyone else having trouble reaching them? I had a problem with a Pangea interconnect and I wound up leaving a message on Audio Advisor's voice mail. A few days later, a replacement magically arrived. I'm still waiting for the mailer that will allow me to return the defective one, but I ... | |
| Questions about music on YouTube The audio I get listening to YouTubes through the hi-fi is usually more than good enough. And it's certainly better than what I get from my drecky laptop. | |
| It happened again tonight Mick Ronson's guitar solo in the outro of Bowie's Moonage Daydream. The final phrases in pianist Andre Watts' first recording of Liszt's La Campanella. Neither recording is exactly the tops in high fidelity but the madness the two bring to bear ... |