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| End Game Turntable suggestions Definitely listen to the Rega Planar 10 but with the top of the line Aphelion cartridge and not the Apheta which I found somewhat harsh and unforgiving of less than perfect recordings. When I tested the Planar 10 and Planar 8 I ended up going for ... | |
| Hi-Fi and the Folly of Perfection @danoroo You open a whole other can of interesting worms. I think there is definitely a degree to which we listen with our eyes. Listen to a set-up where the hi fi rack is perfectly centered between the speakers as opposed to one where it's not an... | |
| The revolution has begun! Congratulations, this is the most bewildering thread I have come across in a long time. | |
| Why are there so many wooden box speakers out there? I'm the first person to agree that savvy marketing and the canny wooing of the right review journals can have an enormous and sometimes deleterious effect on consumer choice; that people more often than not want what they're told to want whether i... | |
| Break In Failed The best advice is Sean Connery's in The Untouchables: Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen. Or in this case listen (and enjoy). | |
| Types of Audiophiles @erik_squires I hope you don't think that my definition could ever be thought to apply to anyone on this forum . . . | |
| Types of Audiophiles The Hans Christian Andersen One whose system is built at the recommendation, and in the hope of the approbation, of others. Named in honour of the author of "The Emperor's New Clothes" | |
| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded In terms of British folk-rock the greatest, and at the same time most uncelebrated, band is Five Hand Reel. | |
| Is blasphemous Music ok? I think the Wheeler Walker Jr song is more cringe-making than blasphemous. I like my blasphemy to have a little more wit and edge to it. There are a few artists I would happily consign to hell though. (Inserts photo of Justin Bieber) | |
| Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding I'd agree that Graceland (1986) is a wonderful album, but when those self-appointed afficionados start telling you what a ground-breaking appropriation/discovery of Township rhythms it represents, have them listen to Malcolm McLaren's Duck Rock (1... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? Now I'm going to have to dig out my treasured first pressing of Rheingold-a-go-go: The Ronettes Rock Wagner. | |
| Martha Argerich - Best of The Box Sets Not a box-set, but the vinyl version of her first Chopin recital from 1965 is available on Warner Classics: definitely get that! | |
| Any Mark Knopfler fans out there? I saw Knopfler on a double bill with Bob Dylan a few years back in Bournemouth, UK. Dylan played the first half of the concert, Knopfler the second, then they both came together at the end to play "All Along the Watchtower." The second half was by... | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? For Wagner: Joseph Keilberth For Mahler: Bruno Walther And for just about everything he touched: Thomas Beecham There's a story told by a well-known conductor who was rehearsing the BPO in Bruckner and just could not get them to sound the way h... | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? In the lead by a long mile: Ella Fitzgerald singing Every time we say goodbye (1) Ella Fitzgerald Ev'ry time we say goodbye (with lyrics) - YouTube Honourable seconds: Emmylou Harris, Boulder to Birmingham Tom Waits, (Looking for) the Heart o... |