edcyn
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| The Symphony of the Audiophile: How Do You Define Enjoyment in Sound? Clear, easily recognizable tone. In other words, honesty to what I hear in music played live either by me or others. Soundstaging and 3D that can fool me into thinking the artists are there. Enough slam to be convincing in my modestly sized room. | |
| What's the point of reviewing? Call me either a sucker or a fool, but for my past couple purchases I’ve just relied on mail-ordering from a couple of SoCal stores where I bought quality stuff before I moved to the oh-so-lovely-but-high-end-bereft wilderness. I must say, though,... | |
| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades Yeah, I snuck my wife's Linn Sondek/Basic into my system when she left town for a while to attend school, but in the main I've just had a Sota Sapphire since I left the Direct Drive World sometime in the previous century. Yeah, the Linn gave me mo... | |
| Sound and music For me at least, there ain’t nothin’ like experiencing music through my own ears. As much as I enjoy playing my musical instruments, I simply wouldn’t do it if I couldn’t hear 'em. It’s a sensual, not an intellectual experience. In keeping with th... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... Give the Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra a try if you are looking for performances of Classical Era and Late Baroque Era repertoire, especially Mozart and Haydn. The fidelity of their recordings ranges from very good to dow... | |
| What happened to all the highend stereo shops As Mick Jagger implores in the film Gimme Shelter, "Cool out!" (I hope I'm right in this film reference). Cobbling together and listening to high fidelity systems should be fun and fulfilling, if perhaps a bit tough on the wallet, house mates &am... | |
| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... I've no doubt mentioned this sometime in the distant past on this site, but just in case I gotta say that Andre Watts is my favorite Liszt interpreter. His Columbia Masterworks LP hasn't got the greatest sound but his un-mannered, just-tell-us-the... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, streamed on Idagio. | |
| Magico's M9 I wring my hands. I wring my ears. Or is that my ears ring? | |
| What's the point of reviewing? You read a review. The reviewer makes a convincing case as to whether the component under review might be something that'll match your taste, give your system new life and altogether enhance your listening pleasure. The component is within your bu... | |
| Re-Discover my Direct to Disks I thought I had a bunch of Direct-to-Disk records but I must've sold them all sometime in the past. The only one I apparently have at this time is Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops doing Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccios recorded at Bo... | |
| EverSolo Streamer Enjoy yourself! And if you want to visit a fine classical streaming site that, though it doesn't go hi-res, still delivers excellent sound quality, try Idagio. It doesn't hurt that Idagio offers up a truly dazzling array of selections. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Byrds -- Sweetheart of the Rodeo. LP. Bought the first day it hit the stores. Saw 'em at the Troubadour either just before or just after the LP was released. | |
| Cambridge Audio EDGE Electronics I haven't come in contact with any Cambridge Edge products but I enjoy my more modestly-priced Cambridge CXN streamer-dac very much. Fine tonality, something extra-important for this Classical Music guy. Not as startlingly 3D as my errr...unreliab... | |
| How Long Is Too Long? Yeah, I wasn't as kindly as I could've been when, talking about Quicksilver tube reliability in another thread, I complained about the unreliability of the tubes used in my Quicksilver Mono Amps. I have to say, though, that at that time Quicksilve... |