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| inserting new component--predictable results? Agree with Drubin and Tvad. I experienced this particularly during a period of time in which I was fascinated with the pleasure of discovering more and greater detail in my system with each improvement. At a certain point, the quest went from plea... | |
| Are Digitally mastered LPs any better than CDs? I respectfully disagree. I have done 4 comparisons of digitally-recorded Lps that sounded better than their CD counterparts in each instance: Wergo recording of Koechlin's Persion Hours (Herbert Henck, piano); Szymanowsi's Sym No. 2 (London, Detro... | |
| Recommend Classical Piano LP's Learsfool, I recently got hold of both the US Vox early Brendel Beethoven sonatas and the Intercord/FSM version from Europe. I haven't properly cleaned or compared them yet. I got the US version from Irvmusic.com. Very nice people. I just called a... | |
| Beethoven Ninth Symphony I just got the same set Photon46 mentions and can confirm that it is a very nice set. You might want to pick it up before it disappears at that price (for SACDs from Phillips). I used to live in The Hague and listen to that orchestra...they have a... | |
| Anyone permanently convert from tubes to SS? I did tubes throughout most of the 80's but got really tired of messing with them and went with a passive pre and a Levinson ML-9 in 1989, and didn't go back to tubes until, I think, 1999. That's not "permanent," but in this hobby, 10-11 years is ... | |
| Recommend Classical Piano LP's For your specific purpose (chilling out after work), I second the Rubenstein Chopin Nocturnes with (almost) a money-back guarantee.Debussy is another excellent place to go. Anything by Arrau on Phillips (fine recordings), Paul Jacobs on Nonesuch, ... | |
| Food: What does the typical audiophile eat? As a slightly-left-of-center meat-eater, with (at the moment) 4 pairs of cone(head) speakers in my house, I seem to fall squarely into the Mr. Tennis theorem, or postulate, of speaker-type prediction regarding diet and politics.Now, I'm curious, M... | |
| How is Audio Research's Retubing Services? I had my ARC VT100 Mk III re-tubed by ARC, but they sent the tubes to the local dealer, who did the actual retubing. (And, indeed, the dealer did a very responsible job, and found a minor biasing issue, which was fixed locally with a part supplied... | |
| Which tube cd player do you like Blcube - I bought an EAR Acute CD player, having heard that it was very analog-like. I was looking for something that might present certain classical CDs in a more positive light...with less "digititis". It did a very nice job of presenting CDs wi... | |
| Which of Mozart's No.39 & 41 CD should I get? The earlier Mackerras on Telarc is a good example (to my ear) of a Telarc recording that was less satisfactory. The string sound is (to me) a bit edgy, which is annoying given that the strings are the name of the game. However, Mackerras is a good... | |
| TAS Recommended CD Tweak…. I've tried 3 different CD cleaners. The first was called Q-151, of which I have not heard in a while. The bottle says "CD Coating Oil." I did some A-B testing, and concluded that it did have a modest effect of seeming to make the sound somewhat mo... | |
| Which of Ravel's Bolero CD should I get? Horatio - Telarc presents itself as an audiophile label, but I've found their recordings to be satisfying sometimes, and not so satisfying sometimes. After you buy yourself a recording of Bolero, I would rush out and buy the Robert Shaw recording ... | |
| Man Cave or No? Living room is listening room also. Which, as you note, leads to a complicated set of compromises. But, like you, I think I'd feel funny stuck off in a back corner room alone with all my stereo gear in a big mess, even though all perfectly positio... | |
| Harbeth compact 7es3 vs. ProAc Response 2 Bcollins - I have only been listening to the Spendors for a week, so my thoughts are preliminary. And, indeed, Bob Neill has covered this comparison previously, but I don't recall if he was using the 1/2e's. In any event, the Spendors are quieter ... | |
| Harbeth compact 7es3 vs. ProAc Response 2 Brianmgrarcom - I ended up with both of these Harbeth models in part because I found it hard to judge the difference between the two without hearing them, and I really wanted to hear them (which I couldn't very easily down here in Texas). That hav... |