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| How is your many titles in your digital collection CD: 2500SACD: 0DVD-A: 0Actually the Sterophile figures don't seem that far out of line. Figures project to 540 million CDs year vs 1.2 million SACD/DVD-A year.The audiophiles who post here makes up only top couple per cent of music buying market..... | |
| Sound Proof??? If you are going to live in apts for a while what your neighbors are hearing is mostly bass. Get a nice pair of monitor speakers and stands to use and you will be able to listen louder without bothering neighbors......learn to live without bass wh... | |
| Toslink Survey / Please Participate I was using "glass" Toslink 1-2 years ago, but have come back to digital RCA cables currently. You can get great sounding generic glass 1.5 meter toslinks for under $30 on ebay with ever higher glass strand count. Back then they seemed to sound as... | |
| Bruckner 9th... GileonI picked up a great Bruckner 2CD set recently: Horenstein/BBC Legends Symphony 8/9. Live stereo version form @1970, sound is very good and performance is both reverant and elctrifying. The 9th may be best I have ever heard overall and 8th is... | |
| Power Cord Burn-In I also do what Panny does, but only for 4-5 days.Computers are good for audio AC cord break-in, they have 100-200 watt power supply and don't tie up stereo system.Turn off sleep/hybernation power mode on computer when using to break in AC cord. | |
| Mahler's Resurrection, Gilbert Kaplan/VPO recordin AuaaronsI almost recently purhased the Tennstedt/EMI Mahler 3/4 at budget price which is supposed to be one of the best 2CD sets from complete cycle.....but held off. Been curious to hear his Mahler style.Checked my Mahler 2 collection to see if t... | |
| Green Mtn Europa vs. Von Schweikert VR1 It is hard to compare speakers that you previoulsy owned with current speaker.....you are just going from memory which can often be selective.Just to follow-up on what Songwriter said, in general terms the Europas would be great choice if you play... | |
| Green Mtn Europa vs. Von Schweikert VR1 there is a bit too much "hype" here on GMA Europas, they are very good speakers but so are other makes, one needs to put things in perspective.I own both speakers and no way does GMA Europas "blow away" VR1 in my systems, they are pretty comprable... | |
| Mahler's Resurrection, Gilbert Kaplan/VPO recordin GaudioYes the new Tilson Thomas Mahler series has gotten much praise, but they are very expensive for some reason. Don't own any currently but someday will have to pick up a couple of the better ones.JorgeThe Rattle/EMI may be best overall choice ... | |
| Mahler's Resurrection, Gilbert Kaplan/VPO recordin I am not going to pay full price for new Kaplan/DG, every review I ahve read prefers the original Kaplan/Conifer (which I do already own) These are my preferred CD versions to date:Rattle/EMIKlemperer/EMI GROTCBernstein/Sony (prefer this to newer ... | |
| Speaker Wires on Carpet This is very simple tweak to test because it can be done real time while music is playing without disconnecting anything, no need to talk in theory. On a couple ocassions with group of people present no one could hear any real difference when any ... | |
| Does Your System Sound Like the Real Thing? If you are taliking "hypothetical" live performance where everything is perfect (seating position, no crowd noise, acoustically perfect venue etc) then no stereo not as good as live.But if you are talking about "real world" live performces with al... | |
| GMA Europa owners, what amps do you use? I would like to report excellent results using all Musical Fidelity SS system......amp used is A3.2cr rated 130 watts.I also use HSU VTF3 MkII sub with Europas.I currently own several very good pairs of @$1,000 monitorsand what I like most about G... | |
| Naxos, the way to go for classical? To answer your original question I would not recommend building classical collection of "only" Naxos Cds, you must do research and mix and match labels/artists. Also some composers are not well represented in current Naxos collection.There are man... | |
| Best Sub $500 used CD Player I would seriously look at Toshiba 3950 & 4900 DVD players, they have 24/192 audio Dac and sound great for $60-80 price new at Best Buy etc, I think they are at least equal to a used older $500 CDP you can buy here. I bought one of each to play... |