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| Enjoying New CD Transport Purchase Play on! Play on! | |
| Help with Classical Music Record Labels. Wow, everybody's all over the place. So I'll add my personal take. BTW, I get enjoyable fidelity from all formats -- vinyl, CD & streaming. I've also been listening to classical music since the age of three. I'm now, ahem, in distinguished r... | |
| Need help on a new CD/SACD player When my Marantz CD/SACD player went belly up after a couple of years (I can't remember exactly why but it was probably its SACD capability), I replaced it with a Sony XA5400ES. It's now several years on, and the Sony hasn't missed a beat. And yes... | |
| Classical Top Five I do like some Wagner quite a lot, but I just can't put him among my favorites. Part of the problem for me is that his stuff just goes on too long. Eventually, a sameness creeps in. There's also a pomposity that can rub me the wrong way. Yeah, ... | |
| Predominantly Piano Music for New Family Member... Debussy -- Clair de Lune. Reflets dans l'eau. Deux Arabesques 1 & 2. Gentle, beautiful, accessible. | |
| members and their systems I'm so rich I fry up Hundred Dollar Bills and eat 'em for breakfast. Sometimes, if I'm feeling thrifty I'll lather maple syrup over them instead of my usual hundred year old cognac. | |
| Tube Amp in Snowpiercer This retired movie guy will now chime in. Set decoration makes subtle but important contributions in the creation of motion pictures and television shows. The things a character has in his/her living space goes a good way in helping us understand... | |
| Classical Top Five I rank composers and other artists strictly on subjective, not objective criteria. I don't care how influential, prolific or technically adept they might be. Do they penetrate past your intellect? Do they find and occupy the core of your being? D... | |
| If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see? Fun thread. I actually went to my share of those concerts you guys went to or wish they had. | |
| How Do You Store Your Record Collection? Recommendations Please! IKEA storage cubes are indeed an excellent & cheap way to store LPs, but I have to say that if you live in a humid climate they'll get wobbly before too long. | |
| How Do You Store Your Record Collection? Recommendations Please! I've had to go with a variety of bookshelves. I just do my best to have them as visually alike as reasonably possible. Plus, the way I figure it, if the shelves themselves are filled with records, who the heck except for you and your spouse will n... | |
| Classical Top Five @kenrus -- Yeah, one of my favorite records is a l'oiseau-lyre two LP edition of Handel's "Acis & Galatea" featuring an in-her-prime Joan Sutherland, but I mostly just can't get behind the composer. For me, his stuff just feels too specificall... | |
| Classical Top Five Try as I might, I'll always admire JS Bach more than truly love the guy. Just like Brahms, his stuff often strikes my ears as more contrived than inspired. Either didactic or cranked out for a paycheck. It doesn't help that as the King (or whoeve... | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? I'll certainly never look inside every jewel box(?) to check, but whenever I pull a CD from the shelf to play, the disc is fully laminated. It plays, too...even the more scuffed up ones. | |
| Classical Top Five Sing a lullaby to Brahms. Maybe he'll enjoy a snooze. |