jim204
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| Useful Idiots @unsound and uberwaltzThanks Guys yes I have lusted over one of those bikes for years and have always had classic Brittish bikes . Can you imagine my absolute joy when my wife and daughter asked me to come to the garage on the morning of my retir... | |
| Useful Idiots Escape from reallity - a ride on my 1949 Vincent Black Shadow although it would be nice to not have so much traffic on the road nowadays. | |
| To get best sound quality, roon or lumion app? I am using Roon in DSD upsampling as I find it integrates well with my PS Audio Direct Stream Dac . I think probably because it gives thd Dac less work to do . I have to admit the sound now is to die for and I have never heard another PC based mus... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes I did the same and came to the same conclusion so I dropped Qobuz. I find Idagio to be more open despite the fact that they only stream CD quality. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jeremy - Thanks for your info on the Richter CD's but as I don't buy any CD's nowadays I shall wait till it comes out on Idagio and sample it there. While on the subject of pianists can I recommend one to you , his name is Ivan Bessonov and we are... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Jeremy I have just read your post about Arrau and Bach.Having famously said he deferred to the harpsichordists when it came to playing him he unfortunately relented and recorded some Bach before he died. Well it is sad to see ones h... | |
| To get best sound quality, roon or lumion app? Although I cannot speak on the Lumin App I can tell you that Roon is certainly the cleanest most transparent music player I have used. It blows away all the incarnations of J River for sure. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Len you really suprise me about Arrau . I was led to believe from his autobiography form Josef Horowitz thet he revered Fischer-Deskau more than any other vocalist . I am quite perturbed therefore thet you should have heard that from... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @jcazador Jeremy I enjoyed those links you posted of Arrau they were very informative and gave us an insight to his sound which was wonderfull. I was really amazed how a man of 80 could keep his techniquein such good shape. I think I have... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @schubert Len I can really put you onto an "Art of The Dance" in Heinrich Schiff doing The Cello Sonatas of JS they are absoloutely joyfull and the first one is a delight from start to finish. No he doesn't have the polished perfection of Foun... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes guys it is very dangerous for anyone to be compared to Horowitz but I am saying that given time maybe he will become as good maybe. here I think he is testing the water and the last number although not in my field is a pastiche on pices by Lis... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Len and RV I have just discovered a new young pianist who dare I say plays like Horowitz in the 50s and guess what the name of his album is Homage to Horowitz. His name is Nikolai Tokarev and he is on Idagio and it's a mixture of pieces with a ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears I will definitely concede that one, I quite forgot about him. | |
| JCAT Femto USB Card @c_avila1 I have to say that anyone will notice a difference if they are using a wired network to stream music and I do agree that an LPS is mandatory. I use both cards with one and can really recomend them as they have made an incredible diffe... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV I also have listened to the Zimmerman recording and truth be told I did enjoy it. There was a saying in the sxties when I was first interested in collecting recordings that you could dress Bach up in anything and he would still be enjoyable... |