newbee
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| Most achingly-beautiful music You can't buy too much music! But FWIW, how embarrassing can it be to be browsing thru a record store and see something thats really appealing, buy it and when you get home find out you have a copy. Been there, done that! :-) | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Drubin, HMC901292 "Faure/Messe De Requiem".The other version by Herreweghe with larger orchestral forces is HMC901771. This includes an excellent Franck Symphony in B minor. Both are scaled down from the typical performances and are very enjoyable... | |
| Most achingly-beautiful music Faure's Requiem, in the original version, by Herreweghe on Harmonia Mundi. This is one of the most intimate, serenely beautiful, and works in the catalog (that I have ever heard). Sounds nothing(!) like the fully orchestrated version, or even Herr... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Fishboat, You may not be an MSE but that doesn't dull your skills at setting forth a very easily read and understood explanation of your views on the subject. Thank you. | |
| how did this happen? Sounds like you passed some DC from your phono stage thru your amp to your speakers. Not to sound grim but when this last happened to me (for different reasons) I not only fried the speakers I took out some resistors etc in a SS amp which wasn't p... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Lugnut, I've not paid any attention to the arguments about cyro'ing. But your post caused me to be more curious since I generally respect your points of view. As I'm from the uneducated class I don't have to worry about my education trapping me. :... | |
| pls recommend some "entry level" tube amp options? Another vote for the Primaluna. With your speakers,I might also suggest that you consider saving $250 and getting the Prologue 1 which uses EL34 tubes (which cost about 50% less than KT88's or 6550's). I have this amp - it sounds great. Its full v... | |
| What's your latest "Discovery" Jazz Singer, relatively new on recordings, Rene Marie. I started out with Live at Jazz Standard on MaxJazz. She has 3 other albums on MaxJazz since 2000. She's the real thing! No pop singer, jazz wantabee crossover. Very highly recommended. Great ... | |
| Is it advisable to have an all tube system? Well, I suppose that if you are using tubes to provide a tonal cure to a problem with other components or set up and keep buying stuff that errs substantially on the warm side of the spectrum, it could be a problem. But, if you are trying to get t... | |
| Who needs spellcheck? LOL. Purseanaly I don't need no stinkin spelchekka, what I needs is a gramma chekka! | |
| Headphones versus speakers Depends what's important to you. If your emphasis is on clarity of detail I couldn't agree with you more. I loved my Stax earphones for exactly that reason. However, if you want to have a replication of a live sonic experience in actual space, wit... | |
| Maybe a dumb question about preamps Well, here's a dumb question as well. What are you going to connect to this amp? Does it have an attenuator? | |
| Jungson or DK Design: good with Quad 989's? Atkinsonrr, FWIW, preceeding your post there have been a succession of posts by folks who had never posted on Audiogon who yearned to tell the folks here about how great an amp the DK is. Just nice generous folks who looked up the site and volunte... | |
| Jungson or DK Design: good with Quad 989's? Onhwy61, I agree with you if you are using the term dynamics to mean "resolution". When I speak of a lack of dynamics with the Quads, what I'm referring to is a sense of compression, not its ability to differentiate between the gradiations between... | |
| Jungson or DK Design: good with Quad 989's? IMHO, if you really want more dynamics than you can get out of a D400 you need to get new speakers, not new electronics. Lack of dynamics is inherrent in the design of the quads.Now, if you really value midrange presense and body, as you say you d... |