larryi
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| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc I like the three string quartets by the Spanish composer Arriaga who did not make it out of his teens. I believe he was 16 years old when he wrote them. | |
| Sonos to Amp - is simplicity better? My dealer loves Sonos as a source component, but, always uses a better DAC feeding into a preamp. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc Schubert,Janacek #2 IS a terrific modern piece, and # 1 (Kreutzer) is worth mentioning too.For modern American I would add Carter's Quartet #3 and Ives #2. For another "modern" composer, but, composing more in a late romantic style, Schoenberg's "... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? For nice, pleasant sound, Magnum made/makes great tuners. In terms of looks, nothing beats the Day Sequerra tuners with the panoramic oscilloscope display. But, for sheer RF tuning capability, decent sound and incredible build quality, to me, the ... | |
| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? Yes, I agree that given the limited and fixed supply of ancient horn compression drivers they are not a realistic option for most people. It is also unfortunate that the good replicas and good modern alternatives are also quite pricey, with a few ... | |
| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? All speakers should use the appropriate magnets (if they use magnets at all), whether Alnico or other material. The woofer and the midrange of my speakers DO use Alnico. The woofer, which is modern could have been made with alternative magnetic ma... | |
| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? There are not that many "modern" horn drivers that even come close to comparing with some very old designs, apart from some attempts at exactly replicating those old horn drivers (the Japanese G.I.P. drivers, for example). Those modern, non-replic... | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc YES, the Villa-Lobos quartets are beautiful and there are a lot of them. Brilliant had a really nice and cheap box set for the complete quartets. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc Lots of good suggestions above. I am in agreement that the Schubert D. 956 Quintet is one of the truly great works in the chamber genre (the second movement is devastatingly sad and beautiful).All of the Beethoven quartets, particularly the "late"... | |
| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? Johnk,I am so MUCH in agreement with you here. There are a number of very old drivers that can be used in modern systems that are, in some respects, unmatched by anything new. Some of these are limited in application because of practical concerns ... | |
| Help - new house - new setup? If it is feasible, you should hold off selling any subwoofer until after you have set up the new speakers, broken them in, and tried different room arrangments. It might be the case that you could still use the subwoofer. Often, a subwoofer helps ... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? That sounds like good news to me. I don't care how I get to "happy." Delusion works fine. | |
| Help - new house - new setup? First things first. No matter how nice the speaker placement in your previous home was, it is entirely irrelevant to what will work in the new place. You need to experiment quite a bit with speaker and listening chair placement. This could be rand... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. It may be the case that "automatic" really means "fixed." There are some manufacturers that don't think that any sort of precise setting of loading is important and so they go with a reasonable fixed value, typically somewhere around 125-150 ohms ... |