rsgottlieb
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| Help me narrow down some speaker choices I'm delighted with Monitor Audio PL 100II--that's the bottom of the line at 6k, and it goes up to 30K in different forms. Great sound all round, very accurate, just the slightest bit of warmth, powerful bass and amazing highs. You also might look ... | |
| Downsizing Speakers in Main Listening Room - Your Feedback on Some options Monitor audio GX50 were great in a small room, sloping ceilings. Very clear and with decent amp went down fairly well. I heard Aerial 5t and was very impressed--they outshone, to my mind, the Kef reference one and the totem element fire. Very quic... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time I guess a few questions in order:Why Stravinsky or Berg or Schonberg?What about opera? Verdi and Puccini?Not a huge output, but what is there is choice: Sibelius.I'm glad I didn't see Schumann, whom I always find 'meh'. But as someone said: it's j... | |
| dynamic classical which isn't boring? sorry, only the last movement of the moonlight! | |
| dynamic classical which isn't boring? Sibelius symphony #2, especially the last movement. Beethoven Appasionata sonata for piano, first and last movementsBeethoven first and last movements, moonlight sonataBach, the fast choral movements of the b minor mass: start with ex ressurexit. ... | |
| What are you listening to right now? Schubert sonatas for violin and piano. Julia Fischer. Not his best known work, to be sure, but charming in a simple, heart-felt Schubert kind of way. | |
| Best sites to download jazz and classical? I think napster has a good classical collection. Seems better than spotify or pandora or some other things i've looked at. | |
| Ugly vs Gogeous speakers Certainly tastes differ, but I can't see why anyone would want a speaker whose looks they don't like in their place--any more than they'd like an ugly chair or picture. I personally love the understated elegance of my B/W cm9s. Rosewood and plain ... | |
| Classical fans, I need advice If you like choral: Bach B Minor Mass is sublime. so is Handel's messiah and the Mozart and Verdi requiums.If you want to feel the emotions, try Brahms--the 2 piano concertos, all four symphonies. And a personal favorite of mine: Sibelius 2nd symp... | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Really? Monitor audio sells a lot more than that--I think all their high end have 4 binding posts. | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? The level of expertise on this list is really impressive. thanks for all your insights. | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Interesting stuff. I guess the people who really should answer this would be some speaker manufacturers. Get the ones who do it and the ones who don't together and let the fur fly. thanks for your informed responses. | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Either/both | |
| If bi-amping is so great, why do some high end speakers not support it? Jordan vs. James? Mozart vs. Beethoven?lolI have no position myself. I just was curious what the experts thought. | |
| Up to $4500 burning a hole in my pocket See if you can get some version of montior audio gold or silver. Very highly rated, and really Monitor makes great speakers. I'm on my second pair, having moved up from gold to the new Platinum series. The treble just sings, there is solid base an... |