phomchick
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| Stillpoints - snake oil? Of course they are snake oil. Transistors and ICs are not microphonic, and the laser in a CD player is servo-controlled to read accurately (not to mention that the encoding of the data stream on a CD includes error correction). There is some logi... | |
| My 1976 Recordings I’m glad you appreciate them. It’s better more than one person can listen to them. | |
| Recommendations for a few high SQ classical CDs I have Saint-Saen's 3rd on Telarc, Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra. I'll listen to it tonight and see how it sounds.That is a very good recording with a smashing crescendo at the end. Enjoy. | |
| How do you move HEAVY speakers with sharp spikes without lifting? Tip speaker on sidemovereturn to vertical. | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century Robert Greenberg, music historian and educator, has a course: The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works. His choices from the 21st century are:Debussy— “The Sunken Cathedral”Debussy— Préludes, Book OneAlbéniz—IberiaRavel—Valses nobles et sentimentalesScria... | |
| Recommendations for a few high SQ classical CDs The San Francisco Symphony runs their own music label which is always of very high quality for both the performance and the recording. They have all of Mahler’s Symphonies (including the 4th). They also have the Beethoven 9th. If you get these on ... | |
| Audio Reviewers & The Music They Use In Their Reviews Rock music is super processed compressed mostly electronic sound. It has no objective reality that can be used to judge whether a reproduction system is faithfully reproducing the original. It’s like trying to judge an audio system while listening... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Use fine sand and tamp it down well.Why? Deadens vibration and adds mass.Lead has no advantages (and some setbacks). And... it can be toxic.I also suggest decoupling the speakers from the stands. Sorbothane works, but you can even use four big ... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances, performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Donald Johanos, as recorded by Vox in 1967 with a two microphone set up.In 1970 every HiFi shop in the country had a copy of the LP to use for demos... | |
| Room treatment and speaker placement???? @shadowcat2016 it would be interesting and helpful to hear in detail what you did to your room and how you went about it. | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century I always loved Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.21901. You got in under the wire. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Film and the BBs: Trycicle. | |
| The Best Piano Works of the 20th Century I was looking for pieces for solo piano, but I wasn’t clear. Regardless, there are some great suggestions here. Nancarrow is an excellent suggestion. I’ll add Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? San Francisco Symphony, Mason Bates, Alternative Energy. Really well recorded, and just plain fun. | |
| Filling speaker Stands? @geoffkait Yes, I said I used sand, but I also said I used expanding foam (Gaps and Cracks Insulating Foam Sealant) to seal the tubes and keep the sand where I wanted it.To add another data point, when Infinity built the IRS V speakers, they fille... |