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| Classical Music for Aficionados Hard to fault your choice, this is excellent Chopin. However don't miss Moravec. IMHO its the best regardless of how you like your Chopin.FWIW, in a modern recording its hard to beat Louis Lortie's Chopin on Chandos. These are my current favorite... | |
| Oldest Recordings that sound “audiophile” This post got me thinking (a rare occasion) and I dug out some of my old Mercury Living Presence recordings which I haven't listened to in many years. The first recording was the Liszt PC's recorded in Moscow. Was this a SOTA recording? I don't th... | |
| Indoor FM antenna You might try a 1/2 wave antenna. I use one effectively (in my attic). You might be able to use one in your music room but you probably can’t hide it. You can use it vertically as an omni or horizontially pointed at the station you listen to mostl... | |
| Oldest Recordings that sound “audiophile” Professor Johnson's Astounding Sound Show recorded in the late 50's is just that, an amazing sound show. I can bring the house down with the cut of African Drum(ing). Amazing what could be done back then. | |
| Help with Hum issues. IC’s (short for interconnects) are what you refer to as ’wires’. There are low quality ones (thin, uninsulated, and cheap - usually furnished with inexpensive audio/vidio components) and much better quality and insulated ones. This could easily be... | |
| Help with Hum issues. Have you tried using a ’cheater’ plug on the end of the preamp power cord? Some times it is good to have only one plug with the ground (on the amp cord) - the rest of the stuff benefits from that ground. It is safe, if not preferable, to use the c... | |
| Help with Hum issues. OK. Did you try what I suggested? What happened? That always works for me when I'm trying to source a problem. | |
| Help with Hum issues. Following up on my post, your speakers should be connected when you start with my suggestion. 1) First connect ONLY the amp and speakers. Turn on. No hum then on to step 2)2) Add pre-amp with no sources connected, such as your tuner, phono, etc, c... | |
| Help with Hum issues. I realize you have done a lot of stuff to find your problem, never the less if you haven't already done this I would highly recommend it. The easiest way to source a hum is to disconnect all of your sources from your amp. Turn the amp on - any hum... | |
| It was 20 years ago today... When I feel introspective it’s kind of fun to look back at what I and others were talking about, or for that matter not talking about, back when I joined in 2001 to get away from the world events of the time. I started out using Audiogon to source... | |
| How Do You Live The Audiophile Life mijostyn, for most folks I think it is probably easier, and certainly cheaper, to put together a great high end system, than to find the 'right' woman. Try getting rid of a 'wrong' woman! And no one wants to take them as trade in's. :-) | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Too bad Moravec didn't record more music for the solo piano. I have his Brahms Intermezzo Op117, #2 and OP118 , #2. This recording (Vaia 1096) was my introduction to Brahms solo piano music. Tough to follow up on this. Fortunately for other pianis... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Thanks for the reference. I haven't heard Ormandy's version in quite a few years - I disassembled my vinyl system and gifted it all, records included, to my son in law. Now I have only CD's and this is not one of them. | |
| How Do You Remove CD Booklet/Artwork? I replaced the hard plastic boxes for soft plastic envelopes. Takes up about 80% less space in a dedicated 'drawer' filing system (I have an excessive amount of CD's). The envelope has has pockets on each of it two sides,one for the disc the othe... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados jim, IMHO there is nothing wrong with how you feel about poorly recorded music. I have many, well at least quite a few, records which I bought solely because of the quality of the performance despite the poor quality of the recording. I wanted to ... |