jim204
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| Classical Music for Aficionados @JC That last picture is a real find , he ollks like a young Einstein there.All joking aside that is a great photo collection wuith some real gems there, I particularly like the one with Horowitz. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados JC I have Conversations with Arrau and find it a fascinating insight from one of the greatest pianists in history and I was astonished at the photos of his hands , it actually showed him spanning an octave between thumb and forefinger. I read onc... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi JC That was a very interesting article on Pollini ,he is very fastidious, a complete opposite to Claudio Arrau who would arrive at the studio take off his jacket and sit down and play what he had to record and then go . some of the recording st... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I am sorry I haven’t posted for a while but I found I was locked out of the forum for a while ( don’t know why as I havn’t sworn at anyone lately )I am at the moment digitising my CD collection and and storing them on Hard drive, 3000 so it’l take... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftears I am so glad you have found the Bolet recording enjoyable. | |
| Doing the Power Cord Thing I wish you well in your quest because you can save a fortune making your own cables. I made one for my new Dac a couple of years ago and was very surprised at the quality of it. I then put it up against a JPS Kaptovator that I had and found that I... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? If you are into jazz you have to mention Martin Taylor I have been to many of his concerts and what he does with a guitar has to be seen to be believed you literally would think there were three guitarists playing. The guy is a pure magician, defi... | |
| Buying three hunderds 2$ classical CD in one week. Now that I am old I still love Martha Argerich but now only for her piano playing sadly , she was a real beauty when she was young but her piano playing is still incendiary. Long may she reign. Regards Jim. | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? No problem whatever , thank you , Jim. | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? @dgarretson Yes the JCat Femto did make a heck of a difference to my enjoyment of files through my PC. That said what I usually do is either rip a CD to my RAM Drive with Exact Audio Copy and sometimes I tweak it with Sony Sound Forge 12 and pla... | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? @garrard I'm way ahead of you there as my Gryphon also was a very high quality top loading device and I even used it as a transport through my PS Audio Direct Stream senior DAC and again no contest and one of my friends supplied his own, Jays A... | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? I now have a computer based system that blew away my Gryphon Mikado Signature by a very wide margin and is now my sole means of music listening. My PC is a very bespoke beast that sports every jitter busting device that I could get my hands on. It... | |
| How many are serious headphone users? I listen to headphones all the time except when I go to my pals house every Wednesday and then we listen to his two speaker setup. At home I listen to Sennheiser HD800 with the Sennheiser HDVD 800 Headphone Amp. Unless you are willing to listen to... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados For me my goto recordings of Beethoven sonatas are the Arrau Phillips Analogue Box Set from the sixties and seventies. These were recorded when Arrau still had a bit of devil in him, because his later digital series seem earthbound and stodgy by c... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Have just been listening to Van Oort's Haydn and once used to the Fortepiano it is most enjoyable and it does make one think of the relevance of Mozart's piano writing . Thanks RV. |