mahler123
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| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. I listened to Chailly, on Qobuz in Mahler 5, and then played the SACD version of Haitink in the same work, and the Decca recording is definitely more etched, the Haitink kind of soft in comparison (btw, my first encounter with this work was Haitin... | |
| Help me pick one of four music servers/streamersreqi I have the Melco N100 with the 2TB HD. I love it. I bought mine for much less than what you quoted from a dealer here on Agon (PM me if you want the details) at the outset of the Pandemic. I subsequently added the extra 3TB HD, the E100. My DA... | |
| Alternative to Audirvana and Audrivana Studio -- how to stream wirelessly? What is your source? Does the Hegel do AirPlay or Chromecast, or even Bluetooth? | |
| High end multiroom streaming Yamaha? Doesn’t quite have the snob appeal of a company like Naim but I’ve seen it get high marks from HT reviews. I found Bluesound problematic with multi room. With updates, one unit would tend to get hung up, then fry itself trying to catch ... | |
| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. Thanks edgewear, those are illuminating comments about Phillips and the Concert Hall. It makes me want to investigate the Chailly Decca recordings, of which I think the only one in my collection is Mahler 3 on SACD. I always thought that recordi... | |
| Diminishing returns? I agree that DACs seem to improve as one ascends the price scale, to a larger degree than amplifiers. The OP, back in 2020, asked about a Quad Arteria vs a Hegel Mohican. My experience is that as ones from 2K to 3K in digital audio, the differen... | |
| HDCD The RR discs seem to play on my Universal Players (Oppo and Pioneer), and also on my Melco Ripper/Transport. | |
| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. The Phillips label of course has been subsumed into a larger label under the Decca banner. When Haitink and Phillips were in their heyday, with seemingly a new release every few weeks, I was a cash poor student and those lps were the most expensiv... | |
| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. The one weakness in his recorded output was the Beethoven Symphonies, which was weird because he was so excellent in the Piano Concertos, with Arrau, Brendel, and Perahia. His Concertgebou Mahler and Bruckner grow in stature with each rehearing, ... | |
| Node 2i and $1k DAC or Cambridge CXN V2? I have the older Node and the Cambridge. I think the DAC in the Cambridge is very good. The newer Node improved its DAC but I think you probably have the older version, if I understand your post. The Cambridge has Chromecast which blows away Bl... | |
| Member Make Zero Sense Tubebuffer I wasn’t worried that you were singling me out….just trying to be funny about making consecutive posts. It was a slow day at work! | |
| Member Make Zero Sense Sometimes I don't impart of all of the wisdom that I mean to dispense in a single post, or I get sidetracked by a tangential issue, hit send, and then realize I never answered the main query of the OP. Other times my wife is trying to talk to me ... | |
| How Do You Learn? Well, sorry mc, i must of missed your previous threads. At any rate, I think there must be some differences between how people learn a motor skill and how they assimilate music. Many people will lose previously acquired motor skills (my 93 year ... | |
| Monitors with Built In Center Channels https://allhomecinema.com/review-your-sony-tv-as-a-center-speaker-gimmick-or-really-usable/?id=17969.... I posted it in another thread...but I think this may be the solution | |
| Center channel https://allhomecinema.com/review-your-sony-tv-as-a-center-speaker-gimmick-or-really-usable/?id=17969...I'm intereted in this. It makes sense to use the monitor itself as the center channel. |