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| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings Edge I am not enough of a Wagnerian to have an opinion. I prefer my RW as bleeding chunks. I prefer Solti in The Ring because he keeps me interested | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings Thanks Lefty, I might look for a current issue of TAS in a magazine store and read it. I canceled my TAS subscription in disgust over their shameless shilling for MQA | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording Curentzis isn’t entertaining, like that flashy woman you meet a bar, but would be hard to take as a regular partner. I enjoyed the Kiril Petrenko who really takes a bit of a conservative view, but again I’ll state a preference for Bychkov in term... | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording Curentzis isn’t entertaining, like that flashy woman you meet a bar, but would be hard to take as a regular partner. I enjoyed the Kiril Petrenko who really takes a bit of a conservative view, but again I’ll state a preference for Bychkov in term... | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? Yeah, their Fourth is a keeper. Started listening to their Sixth today but haven’t formed an opinion yet | |
| Streamers with best apps? My Roon experience was limited. I tried the free trial but on day 2 my vintage MacAiir froze and was dangerously overheating. I have several thousand CDs in my collection and I think the computer was overtaxed. At any rate the one day that I di... | |
| What is the best sounding Mahler symphony cycle? Jim 204 I assume that you mean Ivan Fischer and Budapest. I like their Fourthand I’ve been comparing it with the Blu Ray of Ivan Fischer leading the Concertgebouw. They are very similar | |
| Is a stereo system a tougher sale to young people? Casting Pearls before Swine? | |
| Best Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony Recording An old favorite—Monteux/Bostonof the newer Bychkov/Czech PO | |
| What are your most favorite violin concerti? Beethoven. Oistrakh/Cluytens on EMIMozart 5-I like Andrew Manze cycle the best.Bach-Rachel Podger on Channel Classic Mendelsohn-take your pick here-I will go with Perlman or Michael Rabin.Brahms-Leonid Kogan/Monteux and the Boston.SOBruch-Francesc... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings Lefty I ordered the Karajan Blu Ray. Best price I had seen and had an Amazon gift card to use up. Thanks for the link.Camille- the reviews on the VPO haven’t been very favorable. And some of the recordings clearly don’t appeal. Ozawa in the Fi... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i vs Upscale streamers Apple Music plays at 256 bps. I assume that the Bluesound component has a tab for it as they have a tab for every streaming service. It probably sounds just fine. The bigger question is how a lossless recording would sound. | |
| Upgrading a CD/SACD player with integral DAC I’ve mentioned before that I use a Bryston DAC3 that has 4 HDMI inputs. The OP doesn’t have SACDS, but would like to have the capability to play . I have lots of SACD and output the DSD layer of SACD over HDMI from an Oppo 105 and a Sony 9000 SA... | |
| MQA and classical music I did a Tidal trial and sampled Classical pieces. I was limited to my Bluesound Node2 for MQA, as my better DACs did not have MQA capability. I couldn’t notice any difference. Perhaps a better DAC would revealed something slight improvement for... | |
| Time for a new a/v receiver could use some input! I went “down” in power from a 130 watt AVR to 100 watts with the 520 and didn’t notice any issue. And with room correction and enhanced DAC the sound was a huge upgrade from my previous Onkyo AVR |