mahler123
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| 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 | |
| What is the best digital recording of Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Violin Concerto? I checked ArkivMusik. Two Francescatti recordings listed, both in mono.Primephonic has a pretty limited catalog. Perhaps you can download one of the Francescatti recordings if you don’t want a CD. I see that Julia Fisher and Vengerov have both ... | |
| Best CD of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano C Interesting about the Ann Arbor connection. I heard Horowitz and Ormandy/Philly do the piece in the late seventies at the May Festival, which was Horowitz second concert after a long retirement; the first was the Concert in New York from which th... | |
| What is the best digital recording of Saint-Saëns’ 3rd Violin Concerto? Is Zino Francescatti still available? | |
| Streamers with best apps? MazianPerhaps I wasn’t sufficiently clear, Tidal app SUCKS with Classical which I had thought was a major interest of yours. Every other streaming app is better | |
| Best CD of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano C I haven’t heard to many new recordings over the last 15 years or so.The first criteria should be, which cadenza? Rach wrote a short and a longer one. For me the longer, stormer one is essential, the emotional heart of the piece. The famous Horo... | |
| Streamers with best apps? I think Qobuz works well on the BluOS. For me the experience is equal to using the Qobuz stand alone app on my Android phone | |
| Time for a new a/v receiver could use some input! OPwhy are you looking at the Anthem. MRX 720 when you have a 5.1 setup? You are wasting around $500. The 520 sounds great, especially with the room correction software | |
| Streamers with best apps? From the above post by amg56“...CD’s backed up on a local hard dick (typically 2TB)...”His streamer offers more features than mine.My experience with Idagio was that it had a very limited catalog. For example, it may offer 5 versions of a Brahms ... | |
| Streamers with best apps? Finding a good streamer for Classical Music is well near impossible, imo. The best classification for classical that I have seen turns out to be itunes. I also use Bluesound OS, which looks terrible unless you compare with my latest streamer, Br... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings I know that Klemperer was dismissive of Walter and his emoting (Klemperer is reported to have described his Mahler as “too Jewish”), but when I think of an “objective “ Conductor Pierre Boulez comes to mind. Klemperer seems to have had some int... | |
| Options for converting CD rips I haven’t done much with trying to convert mp3 back to lossless, but I did experiment with one program a few years ago and couldn’t perceive any difference after doing the “conversion”. My gut feeling is once you have stored the files as mp3 the... | |
| Audioengine B1 Bluetooth - Really Surprised I had bought one at the time this thread was created and put in in a downstairs system. I listen to Classical Music but use the AE primarily for pop. When my wife and I are in the mood for some classic rock it was just so easy to pull out the ph... | |
| Best Sounding Bruckner Recordings @edgewearI just streamed the Klemperer 7&8 via Qobuz. They are very good, but I find many of the same issues that bedevil many of Klemperer’s Beethoven and Mozart recordings from the same era have, namely some rhythmic inflexibility and sor... |