gregm
Responses from gregm
| Nautilus owners upgrade to what? Purist: when referring to "a fraction" of an amplifier, surely you mean in quantity --- not in quality :)! I remember the Uno being quite revealing on top & not easy to drive in the bottom!!As to the B&W signature, I too was impressed by t... | |
| Amps get all the thunder, what about preamps? I second the CAT and add (used within the price range) YBA1, Goldmund 7, for speed & resolution. The CAT III is difficult to beat; also, in line form, a III can be modded to Ultimate status... an added bonus for those who seek an even better R... | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Sugar, I share your reservations with Sciff. There are 1991/92? Schiff/Camerata Academica of Salzburg Mozarteum /Vegh recordings of a number of concerti. Technically sound, they didn't transport me musically (I haven't heard the 21 in this version). | |
| Please help prevent mistake : Phone-Pre amp D-K: interesting dual mono. Any trouble adjusting the gain on these? Do you use right channel/right channel? Cheers! | |
| What is the advantage of ultra bandwidth? Sean, as usual, gives the concise & layman-friendly rendition of the matter. Onhw also gives good advice, I dare say. I can add that music sounded VERY different to my wife's & my ears when we switched to wide-bandwidth amplification! The ... | |
| Red dawn vs SPM I have to agree w/ Sugar & Ericbee - though less vehemently. Buy used, but certainly SPM is recommended over R-Dawn, even its newer version (judging by my, and a number of other systems). Also, strangely, SPM seems more system friendly than R-... | |
| Can you get great analog sound from analog tape? Bomarc: you're right in yr post above (doubting that tape is indistinguishable fm vinyl). I should have noted "subjectively" indistinguishable! I find that the musical "essence" is retained i.e. the intrinsic qualities of vinyl are easily percepti... | |
| i finally hit the "G" spot on my T/T Hifi, also tighten the tube/arm on yr Morch -- it sometimes slackens with time. (DON'T touch VTA now you got it right:)!) | |
| Mozart Piano Concerto 21. I strongly recommend Dinu Lipatti/Lucerne Festival Orch./Karajan (live & fascinating -- mono recording!) and...Rob. Casadesus/Columbia SO/G. Szell, both on Sony (the latter a 3cd box comprising 21-24 + 26-27 et alia). My taste also tallies wit... | |
| Regrets Quad 53s, Rogers LS3/5A, an old Jadis amp. Like Pragmatist, paying giga$ for a cdp. | |
| What companies, out of Business, did you LOVE??? Genesis made nice speakers. Folded ¬1yr ago | |
| Tube and Tube Socket Cleaning bday: DON'T use nail-files, Crocus or extremely light sandpaper will do. You can use thin pipe cleaner for the sockets! "Detergents"-wise Kontak or Cramolin have worked for me... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Goodgorl: the jbl's are excellent players, but not full-range (i.e. not intended for home use)-- or am I mistaken? | |
| Can you get great analog sound from analog tape? I must agree with the posts above. One caveat: tapes are expensive and not always easy to find. BUT, recording from vinyl with care (i.e. paying attention to wires of all sorts as Detlof notes) you would need a VERY revealing system to gauge sonic... | |
| Excellent recording of Mozart Jupiter No.41 ? For performance I second (third?) Walter/CSO, and add Bruno Walter/Vienna SO (EMI) and G. Szell/Cleveland SO (Sony). |