jdaniel13
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| Advice on restarting vinyl playback after 30 years I had the VPI Scoutmaster and Dyna 20X cart, it really revealed the magic right off, but it took that rather painful purchase of the Dyna XX2 to get the last 1/3 of records sounding moderately fleshed-out. | |
| Bach: Six Suites Unaccompanied For Cello Kirschbaum on Virgin is my sleeper favorite. LIthe, dancelike and poetic. | |
| Looking to get back into Vinyl. It may depend upon how much free time and curiosity you have, but perhaps starting with something trashy and moving up might be fascinating and educational, here's my story:I started at "mid-fi" with a VPI Scoutmaster and Dyna 20x. Loved it but wa... | |
| Piano on vinyl - the best Thanks, I've tried everything and now look to SACD/CDs of piano works. My system is Vandersteen 3a Sigs, VPI Scout 9" arm and Dyna XX2, weighted at a little over 2.2 grams. I've experimented with many different speaker placements, but have stuck t... | |
| Piano on vinyl - the best While I love vinyl, I've had such a hard time with piano. Does anyone else occasionally encounter a loss of crystalline clarity in certain passages? Not distortion or inner groove damage, but just a "smearing" or slight lack of focus? | |
| Piano on vinyl - the best Perhaps my most impressive piano recording (and mastering) on vinyl would be Paul Jacob's Debussy cycle on Nonesuch. Other than that, I've been pretty disappointed with solo piano on vinyl--inner groove distortion on used Lp's and/or mis-tracking.... | |
| Japanese Vinyl Pressing No doubt (from my own experience) that pressings are superior, but to me the sound is subtly more dull. Generally-speaking, t's not just Japanese (re) pressings, but Philips pressings of Columbia (Szell, Walter, Stravinsky) or German pressings of ... | |
| Japanese Vinyl Pressing Hmm. Disagree in that some Japanese pressings don't have the "boogie factor" (such as King Analog or some of the early Japanese Columbia pressings of Stravinsky for instance. Half-speed mastered? Second Generations tapes? OTOH--as mentioned in a p... | |
| Great MONO recordings I got out some mono Jazz today after this thread. Two that have absolutely gorgeous "buttery" but immediate sound is "Miles" on early yellow label Riverside and "Monk's Music". The originals really have a special sound. | |
| Great MONO recordings Thanks Almarg, IMHO Toscanini's Saint Saens Organ Symphony is my favorite of them all, sonics notwithstanding. (Though sonics far from horrible!) The fleet Scherzo is for once captivating, (Paray gets the Scherzo right, too) and the finale has jus... | |
| Great MONO recordings As far as *stunning* sounding mono goes, generally-speaking, Westminster Lp's of Chamber music can sound almost palpable. Surfaces can be noisy though. Orchestral music on Westminster or elsewhere...I can't say it's "about the sound." It's about p... | |
| Great MONO recordings I don't know if Classical is your thing, (let alone opera!) but Furtwangler's Tristan und Isolde is my most cherished Mono set. I own the poor-man's pressing, last of the tube, or valve-cut: His Master's Voice black label on 5 Lp's. The six Lp set... | |
| Lp's you'd like to see remastered The entire Ravel/Vox Box set remastered at 45rpm, or Bernstein's DGG Mahler 2nd, which sells for $300+ on Ebay. It's the best Mahler 2nd of all. | |
| Best recordings of Debussy piano music...... Have to "fifth" Paul Jacobs on Nonesuch, not only for recording, (and wonderful Lp's mastered at Masterdisk), but also for the performances--wonderful gleam and glint, but no skimping on Debussy's (somewhat under-acknowledged) "romanticism." Gorge... | |
| For Fans of Bruno Walter's "Indian Summer" I'm in the Northern California area if you're driving through! |