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| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... Rushton - yes, I have the Rossini on Fone, it is very good - incredible snap and dynamics. Currently, my favorite Fone recordings are Salvatore Accordo with the Paganini album and the Fritz Kreisler album.And yes, I am lucky to have a great collec... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... To this otherwise excellent compendium, I would add fone from Italy. Their vinyl recordings are of acoustic instruments and feature Salvatore Accardo and other great artists. The recording engineer and producer is Giulio Cesare Ricci. Many of the ... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... Great list, I would add the Signoricci Vinyl series from fone in Italy. Recorded by Giulio Cesare Ricci. Many are in a "Club of the 496" - they only print 496 copies. So they are expensive and sound great. I would also add King Super Analogue for ... | |
| Coupling cap upgrade for Cary CAD-805C help Would suggest the you contact Cary for advice on this. Also recommend the Cardas Teflon coupling caps. Replace the power supply 0.01uF bypass caps with the Jensen. | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse Lewm -- follow up; direct quote from the Aesthetix Io manual (from the Aesthetix web site):The phono stage contains three main amplification sections and an output buffer section. The first section is a high gain, low noise, zero feedback single e... | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse Lewm - to be more precise, the Io is fully balanced after the input stage. Using RCA or XLR gets the same output, the rest of the amplification is fully balanced. The one advantage of a balanced input would be common mode noise rejection, assuming... | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse O_holter -- I initially tried the Purist Audio Design cables for the Io from Albert Porter. They were extremely high quality, well made and very very quiet (well shielded). They were simply out of my price range at that time. I contacted Audience,... | |
| Aesthetix IO Eclipse I started with the Io 13 years ago. It had the volume control which is ideal for my setup. Several years later, I upgraded it to the MkII and added the second power supply. Several years after that I upgraded to the Signature version. About 1 1/2 ... | |
| Shielded phono cables Try the Nordost. I have had good experience with them doing well shielding noise. | |
| Suggestion for Liszt Look for the Claudio Arrau box set of Liszt piano music on Philips. He makes soulful music out of Liszt. Ashkenazy did a great recording of the Etudes on London label, also reissued on King Super Analog. I also agree with the Cziffra recommendatio... | |
| Best Processor around 1500.00 I've had the Cary 11a installed and performing flawlessly since Thanksgiving week. No HDMI issues. It is connected to Toshiba A-30, XA2 (muxed through Oppo HDMI switch) and a Pioneer DP-95FD. It drives my Samsung projector.The Dolby TrueHD and dts... | |
| Best Processor around 1500.00 I would recommend the Cary Cinema 11a, it has 2 HDMI inputs and does all the high-def audio decoding (dts Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD). It sounds great, they just started shipping a couple weeks ago. So, no need to replace it, just start out wit... | |
| Walker Vortex Vacuum Wand for VPI Ditto Rushton's experience. Have been using the new Walker Audio Vortex Vacuum Tube this past weekend with my VPI. It took a little time to get it adjusted just right. The results are very good - just as Walker promised.No scratches on the LPs. No... | |
| Cary 306 SACD Professional No problems with the drawer. I must admit, it would not have occurred to me to press the skip or any other button numerous times. That's just not my listening style. I usually put on a disc on listen to either a couple tracks or the whole disc. | |
| Cary 306 SACD Professional Have had the new Cary 306 SACD Professional Version player in the system for a couple weeks now. It has several hundred hours break-in, allowing the sound to fully develop.The new 306 Pro improves on the 306-SACD in several ways. The player has be... |