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| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions @jdougs I've had a full on passion for Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto ever since I was about ten years old and my dad gave me a William Kappell/Antal Dorati mono LP of it in an attempt to get me to pay more attention to the piano in the living ro... | |
| Rose colored memories Maybe I harbor a bit of nostalgia for my Quicksilver Mono Amps, but all told I now get the best audio quality I've ever gotten. | |
| Why are so many people spending so much money to build “perfect” streaming system? Let a thousand flowers bloom. And if you're a listener who just likes to listen to your first-day-it-came-out LP of Led Zeppelin II, so be it. I got a "Whole Lotta Love" for ya. | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? Laura Nyro Mirella Freni Kate Bush Janis Joplin Joan Sutherland Call the thread police! I've gone two steps too far! | |
| SACD players that will consistantly read the SACD layer of a hybrid disk? I hope I'm not cursing it but my Sony has never failed. By contrast my Marantz got less and less reliable as time passed and eventually gave up the ghost . | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions Mozart's Symphony #29. Genial, happy, and loaded with tunes. | |
| Classical music newbie needs your suggestions Mahler's First and Fourth Symphonies. Tunes. Drama. Worlds so real you find yourself walking around in them. Planet Earth in music. And yeah, Bernstein is a pretty good bet. Chopin's Piano Etudes played by Maurizio Pollini. Things don't get much ... | |
| A light-hearted essay on loving music vs the audiophilia obsession Thanks hilde45 for providing a link to the article. In any case, yeah, it's a common trope that audiophiles are more interested in chasing quality of sound than quality of performance, but that's a pretty unforgiving perspective. In any case, I ai... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? @paulrandall -- I'm the guy who couldn't find much classical on Tidal. If you are having no trouble finding what you want, though, hey, great. All I can guess is that maybe they added all the classical after I gave up the ghost on 'em.. | |
| What's the oddest thing in your music collection? @jnovak My daddy said "Son you're gonna drive me to drinkin...'" | |
| Why are so many people spending so much money to build “perfect” streaming system? About a half hour ago I felt the urge to hear Beethoven's Second Symphony. True, I have a handful of performances on my LP and CD shelves, but I decided to try a performance I've never heard before. I went to Idagio and impulsively cued up a per... | |
| Why are so many people spending so much money to build “perfect” streaming system? Right now I'm in a state of audio bliss...listening to an Idagio stream of Mozart's opera "Abduction from the Seraglio." Three dimensional soundstage. Clean & undistorted. Lovely tone. For an eminently fair monthly fee. And yeah, it ain't even... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? All's fair in love, war and listening. Do what your ears tell you to. And if you eventually reassess your choice, let it happen...unless, of course the change will make you go bankrupt. | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? I had MQA via my Mytek Brooklyn Bridge. When streaming from Tidal, MQA gave me slightly sharper images and slightly more air (OK, treble). Lyrics were slightly more understandable. All told, though, when it came time for me to choose between Tidal... | |
| What are the characteristics of Hifi geared towards good reproduction of classical music? For me, accurate orchestral string tone and absence of electronic artifacts in vocals are the two most important factors for reproduction of classical music. Imaging and three dimensionality can put me on Cloud Nine, as well. Dynamics and punch ar... |