phomchick
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| Anyone else attend the California Audio Show in Oakland? I think I must have missed the Old Forge room. I thought the best sound was in the Bicasti room on the Tidal speakers. I also liked the open baffle PureAudioProject speakers.I was in the Martin Logan room for a bit. They had the biggest room, the ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Grand Piano is very hard to record and reproduce, so I’m always looking for recordings that do a good job. Eureka! This recording is the best I’ve ever heard. And bonus points for it being Prokovief. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079JCLZ6G/ref=cm_sw_... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Concerto for 2 Pianos, H. 292, Bohuslav Martinu | |
| Using a RCA-only preamp with an XLR-only power amp See Henry Engineering Matchbox II | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Because really few systems + rooms can truly handle properly a full-scale symphony orchestra in flat-out hue and cry, listening to chamber music in the home is often an all-round more satisfying experience. This is true. But I've recently been ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? John Adams: Common Tones in Simple Time. | |
| What equipment have you bought this year so far ? Harbeth P3ESR mini-monitor speakers. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Mahler Symphonies are my passion. And today is Mahler’s birthday. Listen to your favorite Mahler Symphony recording to celebrate. I’m going to have a Mahlerthon and listen to all ten symphonies. | |
| Your favourite music movie? Finally! Someone who knows something about film music. The overwhelming majority of responses to this thread sadly prove the movie executives correct in their move from professional movie composers to pop music. Alexander Nevsky is one of the best... | |
| Your favourite music movie? None of these are music movies, but they are all movies with top notch scores.Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)Psycho (Bernard Herrmann)Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann) Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud (Miles Davis) Lawrence Of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) | |
| What equipment have you bought this year so far ? Pass Labs XA.25 Class A Amplifier. | |
| Your reference system? The Infinity IRS V system at PS Audio is definitely a reference system. (if you haven’t heard it, take a trip to Boulder so you can listen to it.)But at home I need to make do with what I have, which is:JRiver Media Center running a room correctio... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Taïra, Yoshihisa; Hiérophonie V. One of the very first high dynamic range digital recordings | |
| List your System Ingredients: Listed most to least expensive, by list price or price paid And the point of this?Not sure you will find any meaningfultrends here.If folks had all provided $ or percentages you certainly could have teased out data and trends. But they didn’t.It would have been interesting to see which components the most ... | |
| Reading List for Speaker Enthusiasts Excellent post. Sigfried Linkwitz contributed more to audio as a hobbyist than any number of commercial audio companies.I hope his website is archived somewhere. |