gregm
Responses from gregm
| best ribbon tweeter in small size You might want to check the small HiVi (RT1-II) -- which is a planar/magnet affair. I've never tried it. If you could go the extra cm, the Raven 1 would be an obvious choice, and it's a "real" ribbon drive unit.What mid are you looking at, to mate... | |
| Has anyone heard Piega speakers? With all due respect, a pair of small Green Mountains ($~800, easy to drive & correct sounding) might satisfy you as office speakers... and then some. There are many other choicesThe nova Utopia are the present culmination of Mr J Mahul's (i.e... | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA Iasi's recs are definitive IMO. So I MUST waste server space in seconding the Mitropoulos/Oistrakh - /Rostro for the violin & cello. How rare to discover s/one familiar with these versions!The Mravinski/Lenigrad 10 is also undisputable.Another... | |
| Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; recommendations.... There's a rogue version of Celibidache with his Munich Orch. I only heard it once on one of the ubiquitous "buyme-phone" labels. IMO, it's not recommended for Celi fanatics...Stick to Beecham. OTOH, if we were talking about a different view of Moz... | |
| Experience using Spectral without MIT or preamp "the president of Spectral is good friends with the president of MIT, so maybe that explains it" Only partly. Experiment, if you must, with care & VERY low volume.The Spectral is a wide-bandwidth design and will thereby accept input signals in... | |
| Room Treatments added, with negative effects.. Outlier -- that's a good system you have there. Try placing the speakers 60 degrees apart (from listening position) at a position where the Virgo toe-in is b/ween 70-72 degrees (i.e. speakers parallel, facing you, is 90d).That's (allegedly) the Vi... | |
| Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; recommendations.... For a very recent and interesting performance try Minkowski. I heard it & was very impressed (don't remember the particulars, sorry).Otherwise, Sir T Beecham/ French Radio Tel. Orch is legendary (EMI, 1957/8) and P. Monteux/Paris S O from the ... | |
| Solid state design options... Very interesting and well put, Bombay! (The EE in you manifested himself, thankfully:))Engineering a constant current device is a bit tricky, (albeit nice for speakers) especially when we go over the sacrosant 2,83V level. Astonishingly, it seems ... | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA Hi Kubla - try the Borodin Quartet/ S Richter (on EMI) for the Shostakovich Quartets. It's still the best ref, IMO. | |
| Is there a future for Redbook players? I beg to disagree. There is NO future planned (i.e. in the corporate business /marketing plans) for redbook ONLY players.As to players ALSO playing redbook, no doubt. And they'll be getting better & better, and cheaper & cheaper.So, if fin... | |
| Audio Diversity - What is it? It's a fascinating subject. For starters let me give my opinion on reproduction: music reproduction is a representation of an original -- NEVER the original. In the same way that a portrait is NOT the original, likewise, blind (i.e. non video) mus... | |
| What Lacquers have been used on cables with succes Abex, please keep up the updates. THey are VERY informative & valuable. You realise of course that what you're doing is obviously a God sent "light at the end of the expensive wire tunnel" to all those who, like myself, are too lazy to take up... | |
| pass lab x-350 vs krell ksa 300s? As per Nrchy. Plus, if classical music, more likely Pass. If not, Krell, definitely. | |
| Best Speakers for Symphonic Line electronics Bombay I hadn't noticed you got a CAT for your RG4's! That's a magical combo -- K.S. MUST have used SL to voice his pre... Good show and, please, forget "upgrades"!!In re, speakers, my most exalting experience with dynamic speakers, was with a pai... | |
| Used Morch DP-6 or modified Origin Live Silver? Good luck & maybe we can look forward to a review of "my new analogue rig playing Mahler 8". Cheers |