edcyn
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| Lets see your listening room dimensions. Try the 12' x 13.5' one. My room is fairly close to that one, dimensionally, and I've managed to achieve a very balanced, natural sound. | |
| Does Expert Music Streamer Outrun CD Player? @audiotroy -- Ah, a stable network! Putting it another way, who knows if a streaming service network will deliver the music I want when I want it? Who should I blame? Them? My phone company? Back when Primephonic still existed (when was that any... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics three-easy -- Yeah. I totally agree. This joint has begun to cease seeing the forest for the texture of the tree bark. | |
| The "variant" press? @whart -- Thanks for the peek into the deepest, darkest corners of the record industry. It's made me more aware of how many talented folks are involved in getting a piece of music into our hands. | |
| The "variant" press? You got me squinting at my copy of Excitable Boy. Did I buy it the first day it came out? I have no idea what the hand-scribbled, barely legible numbers/letters inscribed on the vinyl mean -- CE-118 PRE and GE-118 B-3 PRCW. Have I got something ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados My second impressions of Idagio -- Yeah, I'm learning how to navigate it. There's a lot more repertoire to explore. It's just a bit hidden.I was able to jack up the sound quality. Yeah, again the way to go about it is a bit hidden. Is it now quite... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados My first impressions of living with Idagio rather than Primephonic classical streaming... 1. The selection ain't quite as luxuriously, mind-bogglingly complete as the late, lamented Primephonic but there's no doubt they've got excellent taste.2. ... | |
| Favorite conductors for composers Try some Gustavo Dudamel. Anything. | |
| Favorite conductors for composers It's tough to go wrong with Leonard Bernstein with anything. Feel a hankering for those Russian ultra-romantics Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov? He's your man. Bruno Walter truly unearths the souls of Beethoven, Brahms and Gustav M... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jim204 -- I actually listened to Vikingur Ollafsson's Mozart earlier today. It seems his DG album was featured on my Qobuz home page. Yeah, he's truly excellent, and I enjoyed the heck out of his readings. But he still needs a bit more time to f... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? @dayglow -- Yeah, I saw the Berliner Philharmoniker with Abbado, too. Which is why I was unclear as to where I saw the Berliners with von Karajan. I now realize I saw the damn band twice! In any case, Abby & the Burlers weren't quite the relig... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados PRIMEPHONIC, the Classical streaming service is giving up the ghost and touting Amazon as its replacement. What do you dudes/dudettes think of classical Amazon streaming? Should I go for Idagio, the German classical streaming service instead? Yea... | |
| REALLY vintage! Hey, for that price, just buy it. It'll be a kick. An object d'art that'll be seen as a sly yet sympathetic rejoinder toward what I'm certain is your world class stereo. | |
| Does music give you longevity? @fiesta -- Yeah. But what happens when, as the needle winds its way to the dreaded inner grooves, the sibilants go from spit to splash? | |
| Does music give you longevity? Pergolesi lived to age 26. Schubert made it to, I think, 29. Mozart got to 35. Yeah different eras, different life expectancies. Still, there are a lot of variables to consider. For one, how long do you sit on that couch, bathing in all that gorg... |