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| Classical music thread welcoming your suggestions and why... John Ogdon is a powerful pianist...Master of expression way more than a mere perfect virtuoso... Anybody can verify with his Busoni recording or with his Sorabji Clavicem ballisticus unrivalled rendition... This short Liszt piece reveal why : h... | |
| Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers? All reviewers focus on the gear pieces... To create audiophile experience we must learn basic acoustic... Not buying acoustic panels, i means really experimenting... There is no other way... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! Death does not exist and music is better in Heaven where Bach direct most non improvised works... It is Chet Baker who direct the improvising singing section with Monteverdi... They work well together i dont even know why... š | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! Here is a negative review of the K340 by a well known and competent reviewer Tyll Hertzens : https://www.stereophile.com/content/two-vintage-akg-headphones-k240-sextett-and-k340-electrostatic-dynamic Ā Is he right? No, not at all... But what ... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! No BEWARE...There were not to my taste right out of the box... It take me 6 months and 6 modification to like them ... It is not an easy to figure out headphone... But at 100 bucks pick them and sell me them after... If you look for a microsco... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! i regret my roomĀ loss...š Because so good headphone are , and the K340 is really good,Ā it is easier and more confortable to SEE music in a room... Especially for those who own average well known other headphones... š I will listen to Grimani ... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! You are completely right about the importance of acoustic over even gear choice as the road to audiophile experience... Thanks for the articles... š Ā @mahgister Is the OP an acoustician specialized in small room That is a GREAT question.... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Pick the right one... The more purely jazz one are the best for me... I kept only 10... but they are Magical... Ā @mahgisterĀ I havenāt listened to Sadao Watanabe in a long while. Ā Thanks for jogging my brain. Iāll play an album or two toda... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! I never asked for advices people here for my room passive and active controls... (Is the OP an acoustician specialized in small room ? š) Why? Because small room acoustic is more complex than even great Hall acoustic... No general RECIPE will ... | |
| Who to trust when buying vintage ss ? No way i could have reach Hi-Fi at low cost ( 700 bucks with reparations and dac included few years ago ) with new products on the market... Then i would have bought in all probabilities under 10,000 dollars of the wrong stuff...Especially the he... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I like so much Paul Desmond with Jim Hall ... Or Sadao Watanabe some of his pure jazz albums... Like Chet Baker they dont show off, they dont play the saxophone, they speaks and sing with it... Any great musician if it show off , even if it is ... | |
| Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers? When you are in awe with your own system , you dont need entertainment, you listen music for the first time in your life , nobody has ever experienced it save me ? i dont read audio review anymore except sometimes one recommended here , by curios... | |
| Who to trust when buying vintage ss ? No Modern amplifier are able to give me the many functionalities and flexibility and quality i was buying with an old Sansui AU 7700...NONE.... At almost any price...Look at the manual owner to verify... I like it so much i bought a more refined ... | |
| People Who Affest Electronics I remember vey well the first encyclopedia i read... I had 10 years old... We were poor and i bought it myself screaming at my mother who give me the one book one after the other each 15 days... Half of all i read in it is now false officially o... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... You are completely right... It is the only serious potential problem with headphone... Alas! i cannot go back to a dedicated room... I take great care of the DB level... But the temptation to forgot it is always there , especially with the AKG ... |