gregm
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| 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). | |
| Am I going insane? Tweeker, give the B&W 800S (well driven) a go. You may be be surprised at the sound quality!(Of course, if you add the cost of the spekears to the cost of the amplification required to make them chirp, you go a long way; hardly a commercial pr... | |
| B&W Signature 800 vs Watt/puppy 6 B&W vs W-P/6: B&W more life-like portrayal (Wilsons: larger than life), tonality is more precise, a tad more balanced spectrum, the upper register is preferable, and more musical overall; BUT the Wilson *seem* easier to drive well than the... |