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| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? Willem Mangelberg? I have only heard a few examples of him—Ein Heldenleben with the NYP and an Eroica with Amsterdam. The Eroica sounded like a little crystal meth may be been injected into proceedings. | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? The tempo discussions by Mahgister are interesting. I heard Ricardo Muti give a talk from the podium that must of have gone about 15 minutes before the start of a work where he essentially makes the same points. It was difficult to understand hi... | |
| Ralph Vaughn Williams His greatest music may indeed be his Non Symphonies. Lark, Tallis Fantasia, Dona, Dives and Lazarus, Greensleeves Fantasia. Let’s not forget the Tuba Concerto, undoubtedly the greatest for that instrument. I love Songs of Travel, particularly t... | |
| Who is your Favorite Historical Conductor? I had in mind Conductors who worked in the pre stereo era when I made the thread, but that is a weird cut off point, because many of the greats of previous generations worked so long that they straddled both eras. And I didn’t mean it to be compr... | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. So the Yamaha AVR is playing Qobuz and you are controlling it with the MConnect app on the iPhone. How is Qobuz getting to the receiver? Is there a Bluetooth connection? Or is it coming via Ethernet? In other words, does the Yamaha have a buil... | |
| CD Transports: anything in between? Cambridge Audio and Project and Audiolab all have well regarded transports for less than a grand | |
| How far down the Furtwangler rabbit hole did you go? My first Furtwangler exposure was 50 years ago. My sister and I were both starting to listen to Classical Music. She bought a Furtwangler recording of Beethoven’s Eroica from late WW II. It was cheap. My first exposure to B3, and with the crap... | |
| Well...I am taking the plunge into digital.. Are you directly connecting the iPhone to your amp? | |
| A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC? I am not familiar with the CD player the OP has but it sounds like a multiple disc player. Such players were made for convenience in the pre streaming days and usually the DAC in the player isn’t very good, so it’s possible the Node 2 DAC is bett... | |
| SQ or performance? I listen to a lot of historical performances along with modern (I.e. stereo). So I can’t really say SQ is the deciding factor. It is definitely important, however. Even historical performances can sound very different depending upon the restora... | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? I like the question. My bias would be to answer "No" but as my system gets better and I pull CDs off the shelf that I do not have fond memories of I hfind they are more listenable | |
| What is the Bu-ray plauyer that you are using? I use an Oppo 105, a 203, and Pioneer Universal Player (I forgot the model number just now but it was discontinued). They were and continue to be great players, all of them | |
| High quality CDs Telarc is out of Buisness. | |
| First CD player help! A Sony Universal Player would fit your budget. You can then also spin SACDs, Blu Rays, etc | |
| AKM makes the best DACs Report in Stereophile that AKM is producing chips again |