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thanks Jimdownloading some now 
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Keola Beamer is among the most sentimental Hawaiian guitarists.  His most well known recordings are very prepared, e.g., Honolulu City Lights. My personal taste favors the more improvisational style, and my favorite today is Led Kaapani.  I also l... 
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Jim et alhere is Keola Beamer playing prototype "Beamer" model that Grimes named after himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEjLt9X9zY&list=PLUuz7DoKnenUt7o22xU4X7XP6kAcTRlUAhttp://www.grimesguitars.com/the-beamer-steel-string/ 
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Beautiful guitars made here:http://www.grimesguitars.com/ 
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Your Martin D19 is a surprise, as it is steel string.  And I thought you classical guitarists always played nylon string!I have a Martin 00028, which I love, best sounding guitar I have ever played.  Just a little smaller than your Martin  D. 
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Jimplease describe your guitars and lutesi play an old Guild F30 flat top steel string, have others, fancier, but the Guild plays so easy I seldom play any otheri play simple stuff, dylan, beatles, fingerstyle (no pick)got a piano last year, an ol... 
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jimwhat instrument(s) do you play?  guessing: piano 
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Vera DulovaShe was the queen of harp in Russia, famous at Bolshoi.  Exquisite."Russian Performing School", Mozart, Donizetti, Saint-Saens, Ravel, Pascalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Dulova 
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thanks Jim I had not even considered SSD, interesting that you say they have better sound quality. I see Samsung makes a 4TB internal SSD that sells on Amazon for $450.  And external SSD 4TB's start at  $719.  But presumably you do not need to bu... 
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thanks Jim, thanks Schubertjust a word about hard drivesthey definitely do self destruct in timelast month, mine did.fortunately, i had made a copy onto another hard drivethat is kept unpluggedso i lost very little, only the most recent additions ... 
Help needed with PC/DAC
3 years later, just wanted to explain that my problem was solved by installing a $10 POWERED USB hub between computer and dac. 
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Pardon me, this could be considered off topic.I use a computer based sound system, with music on an external hard drive, going from computer to dac to preamps and amps.The sound quality was recently greatly enhanced by a very inexpensive simple ad... 
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Schubert et alI love Schubert, and the recordings you mention, i.e., Volodos, Richter, Cooper, also Arrau and Brendel.  To my ear, Cooper sounds very like Brendel, with whom she studied, and I mean this as a compliment.  Missing from this discussi... 
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Richter’s Schubert Sonatas review:https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-6844/ 
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eiOO1I have a collection of Richter playing Schubert Sonatas, part of BBC Legendsseries.  And another Richter Schubert collection that includes two sonatas and the Huttenbrenner Variations.  I think these must be different recordings than the ones...