rcprince
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| Apogee Scintilla Value? If you're happy with your Prodigies, I would stay with them. I am not a fan or hater of Apogees, but they are tough to set up, extremely hard to drive, and you don't know how good the rebuild was or where to get them repaired if something goes wr... | |
| Jadis Preamps JPS8, JPS2 and JP80 Originally they were separate, then Jadis started the ganged controls in the early 90s. Not sure what they do now. Victor Goldstein (then the Jadis importer) offered to put them in for me in my JP80 at the time, but I turned him down. It obviou... | |
| Best pressing of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? Well, remember that RCA was selling Heifetz more than the orchestra at the time, so they were a little guilty of spotlighting him, hence the "diminished" orchestra, IMHO. | |
| Looking for best recording of The Nutracker on SACD If you liked Dorati's interpretations on your reference (he doesn't conduct on all the tracks, apparently), you might like the Mercury Living Presence reissue on SACD of the piece, though he does have some fast tempi. | |
| Help, My Vandies Sizzle Older Vandys like those sounded absolutely beautiful with Quicksilver amps (I listened to that combination often at Audio Connection back even before Johnny R owned the place). They also sounded good with Rotel amps of the time, so I'd be curious... | |
| Best pressing of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? That Mutter/Karajan performance is now available on vinyl as well. | |
| Appalachian Spring That's probably the Columbia recording Rushton refers to. | |
| Appalachian Spring The RCA recording with Copland conducting was the one I grew up with, I still listen to it. I thought I saw it reissued, maybe by Analog Productions, but I don't see it anywhere so maybe it's a possible future reissue. The originals should be ou... | |
| Tube Physics Question Here's the link to VAC's take on the KT 120s: http://vac-amps.com/vacBlog/category/technical-musings/I don't see anything there about compression, though. | |
| Best pressing of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? I do like the Heifetz and the Kogan, and the reissues of those recordings are really quite good. I always liked Perlman's version that I had on a Chesky CD reissue, that must have been a Reader's Digest release on vinyl, might be worth looking fo... | |
| Best pressing of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? I certainly wouldn't start with Van Cliburn, as that's the piano concerto! I'll look through my collection to see if there's any other recording on vinyl that I like as much as the RCA Heifetz.. | |
| Tube Physics Question Kevin Hayes of VAC has also preferred the KT88s to the KT120s. I believe his thoughts on the tubes, which include a technical discussion, are in a blog on his website. | |
| I should have never .... For an amp, I'd suggest a Prima Luna integrated. For the speakers, I don't know. Not surprised by your observations, Pro Ac has always sounded forward to me, while Sonus Faber has always sounded musical and engaging. For your size room, though,... | |
| emm labs cdsa cd stuck in transport I had a problem like this twice with mine (though I didn't hear the mechanism engaging, just seemed to be frozen), had to ultimately send it back to EMM each time, but the last time they said there would be no further parts for the repair. You mi... | |
| help buying irs beta How big is your listening room? These speakers need a LOT of room to sound their best. |