jim204
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| Dbx encoded discs @uberwaltz You are right I should have called it vinyl because when dbx was going around CD was not even invented yet and everyone then called vinyl either discs or records. Sorry for being so old fashioned and giving away my age. | |
| Dbx encoded discs dbx discs had to be played through playback software for the recording to play with the right dynamics. It was developed to compete with Dolby B on cassettes but it never really took off. When it was playing with the right playback level it could ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados After reading the The young Icelandic pianist Vikkingur Olaffson's favourite Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould was his perfomance at Salzburg in 1959 I have to concur. He still dosn't heed any of the repeats but it is a blistering performance all... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Cherkasky did have flashes of brilliance but he also had a lot of the waywardness of his master Josef Hoffman as they were always trying find hidden meanings in everything they played. Don't get me wrong Hoffman was peerless in Chopin but he r... | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? I remember many moons ago auditioning a CD player and when I arrived at the store I was told by the salesman that it was ready in the room to listen. I went in and sat down to listen and as there were three pairs of speakers in front of me I could... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just listening to Vikingur Olaffson on Idagio at the moment, stirring stuff indeed. The recording tone is close and sumptuous and the quallity from Deutsche Gramophon is super and as good as anyrhing I have heard. I am so glad he takes the Rameau ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados My wife says of my daughter and I is that we know what each one of us is thinking before we say it. I say that I'm glad she got my brains and her mother's looks as if the other way round she would be in qute a pickle. I am just kidding as my wife ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Thanks Len, for your (as usual) words of wisdom, they are very much appreciated. My daughter works fo The University of the West of Scotland but she has had many offers to work elsewhere . She does not want to leave Ayr and us aswe din't have any ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I'm afraid I have taken a self imposed 14 week isolation as last January I had Sepsis and Pneumonia and kidney failure at the same time. I was very lucky that I came out of Hospital but I have been left with one lung pretty duff and I already have... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Len they have had the knife in Salmond since he lost the Independence referendum . Out of all those who accused him not one of them was proved. Something stinks. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Amen Jeremy !! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Jeremy you are in good company with Claudio Arrau, He is great in almost anything. His Debussy discs are so liquid and his Liszt Transcendental Etudes are so powerful and so tender by turns and to think he was 75 years old when he committed th... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I discovered Olafsson last year through a Wigmore Hall Concert by BBC Radio 3. I am very impressed by his Bach which is exceptionally clean and the counterpoint is peerless in my opinion. I even discovered a disc of Bach on Idagio, but I have trie... | |
| Nordost flat Leifstyle cables for sub? The only thing you can do is try it and see, just make sure to try it first with the volume at zero and then slowly bring it up . If it doesn't work you'll know about it pretty soon. | |
| JCAT Femto USB Card @npdang Just reading about your experience With the HD Plex supply. If I can give you some advice it would be to ditch the cables you received from HP Plex and and replace them with better ones. I now have silver core cables f... |