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| Favorite Symphonies Quiz @edcyn Indeed, Mahler's First Symphony may be the best 1st symphony ever written. And many scholars suspect that is because it was not his first symphony, only his first publish one. I too, love the Bruno Walter version. | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz @rvpiano1, you are correct, the request was for your choice as to the best 1st symphony, the best 2nd symphony ... the best 9th symphony, while using nine composers. I was only commenting on the irony of your complaining about having to leave out... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz Mod 10 symphony list:Symphony No. (4)0 MozartSymphony No. 1: CoplandSymphony No. 2: Hovaness (although I still like Hanson)Symphony No. 3: Saint-SaënsSymphony No. 4: BrucknerSymphony No. 5: ShostakovichSymphony No. 6: TchaikovskySymphony No. 7: Si... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz “Very hard to compose a list given this limitation. Had to repeat. Leaves a good many great symphonies out. Not really fair.”If you are unhappy about leaving composers out, why did you repeat? | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz I think I’m going to try making a list with my mod 10 numbering suggestion. It’s not going to be much different because other than Mozart, Haydn, and Hovhaness, I can’t think of many composers that will be added.And.... it just occurred to me that... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz Very few bettered Mozart. It may only be Haydn (104) and Hovhaness (67). | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz How about we keep it at nine symphonies, but open it up to the last digit only? Thus #2, #72, and #102 would all be allowed picks for #2. That gives you more symphonies to choose from, but you still have make choices to come with a list of nine. | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz Aha! Nielsen make a well-deserved appearance (but I'd pick his third). | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz "Or all of Cookie’s recordings of Tilson Thomas with the SFS"Was Cookie Marenco involved with the SF Media series of recordings with the SF Symphony? I know the recordings are/were? available on the Blue Coast Music website for purchase and downlo... | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz @jdane: I too would have picked Mahler for all positions in the list if it were allowed. But you omit Mahler’s Eighth? The night in 2009 that I spent listening to the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus perform Mahler’s Eighth was one of the most me... | |
| Pass Labs XA-25 on all the time? Turn it off:It is expensive to leave it on. Nelson Pass says turn it off. The extra heat will prematurely damage all the electrolytic capacitorsYou could always email Nelson and ask. His email is out there. | |
| $3000 stand mounted speakers? Harbeth P3ESR | |
| Wide baffle speakers are better than narrow "I’m thinking of every thing from the wide-baffle Arnie Nudell Infinity and Genesis to the Sonus Faber Stradivari here."Even Arnie learned as he gained experience. Look at the baffle for the mid/high panels of the IRS Betas. Also look at the work ... | |
| Long unbalanced RCA or long USB cable? USB cables either work, or they don’t. Analog cables, like unbalanced RCA, add more resistive and reactive loads as they get longer, thus slowly degrading the signal as length increases. Use your 15’ USB cable. | |
| Confession of a poor power cord pairing for a Pass Labs XA-25 The Pass Labs XA25 manual says if you replace the power cord, make sure it is good enough. This is Nelson's sly jab at after market power cords. |