gileon
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| Best piano version of Moonlight Sonata? For the best Moonlight sonata, I'd recommend Emil Gilels on DG. Simply perfect. Radu Lupu also made an interesting Moonlight sonata recording on London's Weekend Classics label, marred only by the somewhat understated 3rd movement. | |
| Best midrange on SS amp ? Assuming, of course, that your speakers have relatively high impedance and sensitivity, Pass Aleph 3 or 30. Nothing else comes close. | |
| What Is The Best 2 Channel CD Vivaldi Recording? Fabio Biondi 4 seasons on Opus 111 label. | |
| Mozart Piano Concertos 20 & 21 For 21, my favorite is Dinu Lippati on EMI. Sonics are pretty bad, but the performance is incandescent. If you insist on better sound, Annie Fishcer on Hungarton or EMI is almost as good and would be my recommendation for #20. The Hungarton is a b... | |
| Bat VK-51se vs. Atma-sphere MP-1 Mk II I've had my BAT preamp for almost 4 years now and have never experienced a single glitch. I probably average about 4 hours of listening, everyday, and have yet to even replace any tubes.As for sound quality, I thought it was a huge step up from my... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice VedricThat RCA Living Stereo CD of Heifetz playing Beethoven and Mendelssohn Violin Concerti is a great recording of a great performance. Some people dislike Heifetz's Mendelssohn (too fast), but I love the way he rips into the notes and yet infus... | |
| Speaker upgrade itch Opinions 2500$used Personally, I think the weakest link in your system is your preamp. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Rogue gear, and own the 88 amp myself. But I was not much impressed with the 66 preamp. If you like the tube warmth, I would recommend t... | |
| Speaker Upgrade? For 2k, I'd look at Spendor SP-2/3s. Plays music better than just about anything. | |
| Favorite Performances of Russian Compositions I find William Kapell's recording of Prokofiev's 3rd PC on RCA to be pretty "definitive." As for Moussorgsky's Picture at an Exhibition, I usually reach for Sviatoslav Richter's live Sofia recording on Philips. All the coughing from the audience c... | |
| Recommendation - Complete Beethoven Sonatas Mixed review of Schnabel's? The only thing you could quibble with would be the sound quality. If you get the Pearl set, the piano tone is rather well preserved along with all the hiss =)Performance wise, Schnabel's set stands head and shoulder abo... | |
| Which preamp? Audible Illusions Rogue Audio ARC Well, don't mean to sound like a broken record, but since you own a McCormack amp, I'd consider getting an Audible Illusions unit (M3A if you have phono, L-1 otherwise). Mates very well. | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Well, to get back on topic, my favorite Beethoven symphony is the 8th. I've heard it described as a wallflower of a symphony sandwiched between 2 monumental giants, and I was of the same opinion until I heard Scherchen/LPO. If you can find it, giv... | |
| upgrading from McCormack DNA-1 to.....? Well, if you want the perspective of a previous McCormack amp owner, I'd say a tube preamp is mandatory, especially an Audible Illusions preamp. I've never heard the Y-S preamp, so can't comment on how that'd mate with McCormack.Also, the McCormac... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Maybe it's just me, but I've never heard large Thiel speakers (and this includes 2.3) that sounded anywhere near as coherent and musical, especially in the midrange, as the 1.5. Listening to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's live recording of Chopin... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? Thiel 1.5. Haven't heard the 1.6 so can't speak for them. |