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| Jazz Piano Trio / Spanish Guitar Brad Mehldau Trio, "House on Hill" and "Day Is Done"Bill Evans, "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"Oscar Peterson Trio, "We Get Requests"Keith Jarrett Trio, "Standards Vol. 1" (or the new boxed set, "Setting Standards")For guitar:On the Telarc label,... | |
| best digital cable,sonic frontier STF-1 transport; Kimber Illuminations D-60 -- available thru Audio Advisor and others, occasionally used on Audiogon, but they get snapped up quickly. | |
| Help with integrated amp purchase For 2500, you can pick up a used Naim Nait 5i integrated and Naim CD5i-2 CD player and get incredibly musical sound and great system synergy. (The new CD5i-2 is significantly better than the original CD5i.) Even if you keep your current CD source,... | |
| speaker recommendations for a 12 x 12 room? I have a room slightly smaller than yours, and have run through many speakers, and I can confirm that the big challenge is (in Duke's words) "large peaks and dips in the bass region due to speaker/room interaction." In the end, I found that sealed... | |
| Digital Purchase Advice . . .DAC or New Player Consider the Benchmark DAC-1 -- has both balanced and single-ended outputs. Many great reviews. Works well even with plain old CD players as a transport. | |
| Tube Pre/SS Amp versus SS Pre/Tube Amp It can indeed work both ways, but after going through many combinations, I came to prefer a tube pre and SS amp. The tube pre (a Conrad-Johnson) gave the nice warm tube glow, while the SS amp (McCormack) sounded great, had a better defined low end... | |
| Recommend Classical Piano LP's I don't do vinyl, but I assume you know where to look for it, so see if you can find Chopin's Nocturnes -- they should meet your end-of-the-day needs. I enjoy Artur Rubinstein's performances on RCA. | |
| Suggestions For Classical & Symphonic CDs A hauntingly beautiful violin solo -- try "The Lark Ascending" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It's available on a great CD with other gorgeous Vaughan Williams works for strings, including the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and the Fantasia on ... | |
| Suggestions For Classical & Symphonic CDs A further thought after my previous post -- for that late-night listening session, you should move beyond orchestral to chamber works. If you're feeling adventurous, try a CD by Arvo Part called "Alina" (on the ECM label) -- it takes you through s... | |
| Need your assiatnce - tube preamp recommendations You need that good old Conrad-Johnson sound. Save yourself some cash and try the PV-11L now for sale on Audiogon. I don't know the seller; I have owned a PV-11 and PV-12, and they offer sweetness and warmth without too much bloat or high end rollo... | |
| Suggestions For Classical & Symphonic CDs If you especially like massed strings, try:Tchaikovsky's Serenade for StringsDvorak's Serenade for StringsRichard Strauss, MetamorphosenAlso, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll for small orchestra.Many good recordings of the above are available.And here's a... | |
| Intergrated amp for Totem Sttaf Naim Nait 5i -- works very well with my Harbeth and Spendor speakers, might sing with your Totems too. | |
| Looking for a CD player with more life I own a Naim CD5i-2. I run it with a Nait 5i. As much as I like the CD5i-2, I'm not sure it will meet your needs--it rather fits the adjectives you use to describe your Meridian. You might go to the Naim forum and read up on the CD5X and CD2X. Tho... | |
| Looking for a CD player with more life What about the new Cambridge Audio 840C? See Robert Harley's effusive review in Absolute Sound. Google "absolute sound cambridge 840" | |
| Seeking Warm Towers - under $1500. Vandersteen is a good recommendation.But if you want really "warm" sound, look for a used pair of Vienna Acoustic Mozarts -- like buttah... |