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| Do You Remember Your First CD Player? Mine was a Philips CD104, 14-bit resolution and 4x oversampling. I bought it in 1985 only because the vinyl being sold by the majors at that time was rubbish - thin, light, and riddled with dust-attracting static. But despite the cheapness and poo... | |
| Love it, or Hate it ? (wood trim) I once owned an A&R Cambridge (now Arcam) A60 integrated amp (30w) which had an all-wood casing. Mine was in rimu, a fine native wood of New Zealand. I loved that amp as far as sight and sound were concerned, and it was only the need for more ... | |
| Moving from mid-fi to hi-fi -- Imaging questions You don't need super high-end speakers to hear the atrocities perpetrated by some recording engineers (or insisted upon by ignorant musicians). The piano keyboard as wide as a symphony orchestra, the timpani covering the entire back wall, a single... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Mahler: Ich bin der Welt: from Ruckert SongsMahler: Der Abschied: from Das Lied von der ErdeMahler: Adagietto: from Symphony No. 5Rachmaninov: 18th variation from Paganini VariationsKorngold: Marietta's song: from Die tote StadtThe renditions of t... |