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| What Are Your Reference Discs? or Specific Reference Tracks I may have missed something, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned any chamber music recordings. I often listen to chamber music, and many systems which are really great on "big music" don't quite let you hear the wood in a pizzicato passage of ... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Bob Dylan, Olympic Stadium, Detroit, 1978. On stage with an electric guitar backed by a female chorus dressed in glitter. Dylan: "like a rollin' stone"Chorus: "ooo - ooo - ooo"(The late and lamented Olympic stadium - a horrible place for a concer... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tristan und Isolde, Furtwängler, Flagstad, Thebom, Suthaus. Recording from 52, later pressing. | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic Not to belabor the point, but Primephonic also seems to have many Walkure; in fact, scanning the app open beside me, it seems they have plenty of Rings. | |
| Qobuz vs idagio vs primaphonic One data point: Primephonic has the entire Bonynge/LSO Rigoletto with Milnes, Pavarotti, and Sutherland, also the entire Serafin/ la Scala set. I didn’t check track for track, but it also looks like they have the entireLevine-Met recording. (Maybe... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Primephonic+1. Not long ago they were running a half-price sale. One problem with Primephonic though, is that you are constrained to their app or a web interface. Can’t use my Innuos Zenith. One is similarly constrained with Idagio.Larryi, +1 on t... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Yep, the Times and the New Yorker are still here, although less well-written than they used to be; and what's the point of the New Yorker if not the writing. Ross is an exception. (I don't live in NYC, btw. I'm an upstater, and we, being comple... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Sorry, Mike, I should have been more clear. Alex Ross has a blog, therestisnoise.com. He writes for the New Yorker and his columns are quite good (even when I disagree). You might find him in his columns, as I do, too interested in the newest m... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music Thee things:1. I think it is a mistake to identify great orchestras, great performers, and just buy their stuff. The good people did lots of good stuff, also lots of dogs, and that path overly concentrates you on the mainstream canon. Furthermor... | |
| Vinyl headache from hell!!! I too have a morch tonearm. Lovely when correctly set up, but what a pain to get there. Those @#$%^ weights... | |
| what are some of best tonearms you own or experience with. I have a Morch UP4. Sounds fine, but what a pain to set up. I dream about those elliptical weights and wake up in a cold sweat. | |
| My hearing deficits are becoming clear... I've had the top-model over-the-ear oticon's for a year. The before and after with music is like taking off a shirt draped over my speakers. More detail, more clarity,... Of course, you lose the opportunity to offer "sorry, I didn't hear you" a... | |
| How old are you? So many of us are over 50. And I’m guessing that a plurality of us are male. So what about hearing loss. How has that affected equipment choice? Bettter gear because you need it, or you can relax because you can’t hear the high-end differences? | |
| Scheu/Eurolab turntable question Thanks! | |
| Upgrades that met/exceeded your expectations and those that felt short Did the Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum upgrade, from a 1 to effectively a 3. A whole new amp. More depth and detail. And the phono-stage upgrade was particularly worth it. I've taken my phono preamp offline. |