jim204
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| Does the Quality of the USB cable matter? Hey Ozzy have you seen that PS Audio has new firmware for their Directstream DAC called Snowmass . If you haven't already got it I urge you to get it as it brings the player to another level. I find that the levels of detail have improved and a de... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes that's a good idea , I'll try that at the weekend and let you know how I get on. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV if you do that you will i promise hear far more, just imagine as you know the frisson from a harpsicord or hearing overtones from the orchestra that are cut off by the brick wall filters in CD players. I have listened to master tapes made by th... | |
| CD Player /Built in Headphone Amp I have always found the add on option of a headphone amp in either a CD player or an ordinary amp to be rather inferior to a stand alone head amp. The HD 700 are really quite decent phones and even some quite modest head amps will be far better fr... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Hi RV I looked at IDAGIO on your recomendation but is it right that it is only CD quality ? If that really is the case I think I shall just stick to Qobuz as I can get up to 24/192 on it. You say it is really meager for classical lovers but what c... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I think of the recordings available that O'Conor does it best for me as I find O'rourke drags the nocturnes out too much. O'connor also imbibesmore life to them and I also find the Terlarc recording to be more imediate and detailed. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados John Field was a very interesting composer the precurser to the Chopin Nocturne and wrote some very nice piano concertos also but you already know that but what you don't know is way way back in the seventies my friend and I used to play Field Noc... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados @twoleftearsNo as far as I'm concerned your Radu Lupu recording is very safe I would rather that they both sat side by side because Radu Lupu when on form is trully magical in introspective works like the late Brahms piano music. I was at an Edinb... | |
| U.K. used audio dealers? https://www.analogueseduction.net/ex-demonstration-and-previously-owned-equipment.htmlHi Woofer why don’t you try this place if they don’t have the kind of gear you are looking for then perhaps they can point you in the direction of someone who ca... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have the Sony boxed set of the Horowitz celebration CDs and at least once a week something from it is listened to. That Scarlatti disc of his is legendary and no wonder the playing is superhuman and if you look at him playing there is hardly a f... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV i have seen Pletnev live quite a few times the latest being in The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh a couple of years ago. An all Rachmaninov program and it was wonderfull. I think that pianists who graduate from the piano to the podium learn such an ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I'm so sorry you guy's didn't like the playing on Levit's new disc as I really did like it. You know that it was a tribute to his best friend who had died and maybe that explains some of the hesitant playing. I'm also sure you know that the Brahm'... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Has anyone heard the new disc from Arkady Volodos of the late Brahms works. Beautiful playing and recording.My favourite Trifonov discs are Liszt Transcendental Etudes and Paganinni Etudes. Stunning playing and very mature playing also from one so... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados RV how are you finding IDAGIO compared to others , do you get Quobuz yet I get it over here in Scotland and I.m loving it as I find it to be the best for classical music here as the rest and for them quite rightly so concentrait onRock and Pop. Ea... | |
| PS Audio DS Jr vs. SR I have heard both and can safely say that Sr. is definitely worth waiting for. I did and I am loving mine and once it has broken in it is a stunning machine. |