mahler123
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| My favorite classical recordings One thing that interests me is how my tastes have changed. For example my first exposure to the Mozart Symphonies were the recordings of Klemperer and Walter. Having revisited this recently, having primarily listed to HIPP versions for the last ... | |
| Oppo Blu-Ray Players in 2023 I prefer my CDs to the same disc being streamed through a service. The two Oppo players that the OP mentioned were later bested by the 103/105, and then the 203/205, but that doesn’t mean that they still won’t provide pleasure. The OP doesn’t me... | |
| My favorite classical recordings Been listening and collecting for decades, so this is an impossible task. I just retired and having a lot of fun pullinhi lot of fun pulling CDs of the shelves that haven’t been played for years. I’ll suggest a current favorite: Aldo Ciccolini... | |
| Magnetar @asin which model did you purchase? | |
| Grateful Dead Dave's Pick's Volume 48 ......time to put a fork in this ! I don’t listen to the Dead, but as a veteran classical music collector, I’ve long had to deal with the question asked by others as to why I had multiple recordings of the same work. Reading this thread makes me realize this isn’t unique to my gen... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? I don’t mean to pick on the OP or engage in Audio Heresy, but it’s interesting that he has been listening to a compromised source, namely Spotify Free, and enjoying it. It isn’t until others have been pointing out how compromised his source is tha... | |
| Was 1971 the high point of popular music? I was born in 1958. That is an impressive list that the OP compiled. Music was very important to me and I definitely felt a few years later as if popular music had lost itself, and I drifted into Classical | |
| Fiber Internet So I didn’t have to chang IP address,but I am not noticing any particular improvement in streaming | |
| Add I2s to Oppo players? My BrystonDAC3 has HDMI inputs and I output the Oppo 105 DSD from SACD into it | |
| Is there such a thing as a good medium priced music streamer? I really like the Cambridge Audio CXN 60, so much so that I bought a second unit for a second system. It is unclear to me if the OP requires a DAC, but it has a decent DAC. It will directly stream Tidal , but for Amazon it has AirPlay, Chromecas... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Cool. And to answer your question, I’ve seen much less civil Internet forums than Audiogon. As bad as it sometimes gets here, we sound like a bunch of EU Diplomats compared to the general on line tone | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? OP Thank you for not all capping your thread title. It lowers the temperature right off the bat | |
| Mahler 8th Symphony It’s the one Mahler Symphony that I play infrequently. Solti/Chicago for the thrills. This work doesn’t respond to subtlety | |
| There is none out there...... @whart +1 Streamers are networking computers. There are plenty of IT people around that can hardwire your home for a few hundred bucks. They don’t have to know a thing about audio, just how to set up a network. The cost is trivial in the co... | |
| What does one need to know about playing old 78 rpm records? When my father died 25 years ago his 78 collection looked Mouthwatering . There was Toscanini conducting Ravels Bolero, Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra accompanying Rachmaninov in his Piano Concertos, and many others. My Garrard tt had a ... |