jim204
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| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? This discussion is descending into farce | |
| Pieces of music that digital can't get right 4’33’’ is the most stupid thing imaginable, I feel genuinely worried for the sanity of anyone who goes to concerts or puts on vinyl or a CD to ’’listen’’to it. I once walked out of a concert because the Quartet announced they were going to play it... | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century Gotta have Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody | |
| How good is your hearing ? And how do you know ? Yes I remember the 60's and 70's audio and I couldn't wait to get away from it what with idler drive turntables and Quad amps churning out hum by the bucketload. Move onto the milenium and we now have equiptment that can resolve from grooves or pi... | |
| My experience after lost of 20k$ @Amir Why don’t you just go and crawl under your bridge for a century and we won’t hear you bleating on. Oh yes and does the bs stand for bull s##t | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? I really can't understand the hoo-ha about tubes , it is outdated technology and with some exceptions riddled with distortion. I was born in the early fifties and then everything was driven by valves and that dosen't mean tosay we all enjoyed the ... | |
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment Has nobody ever thought of getting the most ruthlessly accurate system you can and tailoring the good and bad recordings by software. I happen to have a lot of money in my home built PC and it is chock full of anti jitter software and I have Sony ... | |
| Can Streamed Music Sound Better than any other source? I would say that is a matter of opinion as one who has given up turntables and never looked back. My pal has a turntable that cost with arm and cartridge over £40.000 and at a tenth of that price I am listening to 24/96 streams that are every bit ... | |
| To power condition or not I think you have answered your own question, why don't you try both options and use your ears to tell you what's best. I envy you as I had the passive 40s a few years ago and loved them so much I bought a pair of active 100s to replace them . ATC ... | |
| Can Streamed Music Sound Better than any other source? I love my streaming so much that I haven't touched my Gryphon CD player in almost a year and yes the sound quality is just as good as CD in my opinion. I user my PC which I built for the pupose and I have lots of jitter busting progams on it to ma... | |
| Favourite Opera Recordings My favourite is Wagner’s Ring Cycle conducted by, Daniel Barenboim on Warner Classics, 14 CD’s and also on DVD. It is probably the best of the modern Ring Cycles and whilst maybe not wipe the floor with Solti’s Ring Cycle it is definitely head and... | |
| Klemperer Mahler 7 mystery? I think I see what you are trying to comune here but I tend to think that the 7th is a flawed child of Mahlers. I have yet to hear any conductor make anything of this symphony because it is so disproportionate from movement to movement and he was ... | |
| Klemperer Mahler 7 mystery? Yes the tempos that Klemperer used do tend to be quite a bit slower than the rest of his contemories like Bruno Walter and Mengelberg but if you read any of the biographies of Mahler it is no coincidence to find out that Mahler himself tended to c... | |
| Recommendations for a few high SQ classical CDs I have been listening to a superb Mahler 4th lately and it is a superb recording and a great interpretation. It is Adam Fischer conducting The Dusseldorf Symphony and I have been listening to it quite a lot of late. It is super clean and has a hug... | |
| Paul is Done although preferring classical music Paul Simon stole my heart in my young years and I still listen to him when I feel nostalgic. The one album I play most is The Paul Simon Song Book, totally acoustic just him and his guitar and he is quite a pick... |