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| New to classical music Thanks tuberist for getting my brain into gear.lohanimal -- start with Maurizio Pollini doing Chopin’s Revolutionary Piano Etude. Things don’t get much more tempestuous. If you like it, try out a couple more of Pollini’s Chopin Etudes. Start with ... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? My wife sold her Sondek/Basik combo and a good deal of her LPs three or four years ago when she decided they were a burden. Before she got rid of the records, she transferred some of them to digital. Sometimes she has regrets!As for me, I've bee... | |
| Quicksilver Mono 120 vs. Quicksilver V4 Forgive me for waxing nostalgic but I ran a pair of Quicksilver Monos for many years (damn, I can't remember what preamps I coupled the Quickies with). At the time I lived less than five miles from Mike Sander's house, so it was no problem gettin... | |
| Your reference for "the absolute" sound? Yeah, the absolute sound is live music, or any non-reproduced/non-regurgitated sound for that matter. The crowd at the baseball game. Kids playing. The neighbor screaming outside. Sidewalk buskers. A lawnmower. You can choose between hand-po... | |
| MQA is Legit! I decided to swing for an MQA-enabled DAC because MQA was developed by Meridian -- the once-monikered Boothroyd-Stuart bunch whose powered speaker system (I can’t recall the model) sent me into fits of audio ecstasy when I auditioned it at a Paris... | |
| MQA is Legit! I am a longtime, longtime audio enthusiast who bought a Mytek Brooklyn Bridge and is now almost three days into the modern streaming, outboard DAC era(!). The only MQA I've listened to is from Tidal and I gotta say that though I prefer having the... |