rsgottlieb
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| Whats playing on your system today? Mahler 7th symphony, Barenboim cond. Great performance. Gives it much more coherence than other versions I've heard. Also Bruno Walter cond. Bruckner 9th. very mellow. For a bonus, a mix I made of adagios from Beethoven string quartets. God bless ... | |
| Most coherent low volume speaker with very fast bass under 10k used? I've had great pleasure from my Monitor Audio PL100 II. Those are 6k new. If you go up the list to the slender floor standers you'll find speakers you could get well under 10k used. I find the Monitor remarkable, and much better -FOR MY TASTE-- t... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k LAST WORD: Well, that's it. On the advice of folks here I updated my cd source and my integrated amp. And the speakers arrived today: Monitor Audio PL 100 II. And the whole system at about 60% less than regular price, since I got all the pieces on... | |
| Best pressing of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? Joshua Bell. Great excitement. I heard him live a few years ago and even though he's probably performed it 200 times, it was still filled with energy. | |
| Request advice-need "brighter" speakers than Totem Hawks i listened to Totem Element fire recently and found them sweet but kind of laid back and dull. Not to my taste, certainly for $6k.I have Monitor Audio Gold 50, which have a remarkable treble, and fit the bright, fast, light mold. You also might li... | |
| List of albums that will still be popular 50 years from now... Early James TaylorEva Cassidy, SongbirdCat StevensEarly Simon and Garfunkel and in case people are not all on anti-depressants...Leonard Cohen. | |
| Your Go to CD to Impress Depends on the person: for a Baptist minister friend I played the Messiah; for a young guy who wanted soothing strings, a Mozart string quartet; for someone who liked it lively, Armik, the neo-flamenco guitarist;for classical nuts like me, either ... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k UPDATE: I've taken the advice received here and started with improving my amp. Dealing with audiogon makes it financially possible. Just today got my Sony AE1, which is not very old, for 1/2 price. And you guys were right, makes a big difference. ... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k Kalili thanks for advice. I have taken the comments about electronics to heart and just yesterday bought on Audiogon a Sony integrated amp (regular price 2k, got it for 1/2 that). So in a week I'll see how the GX-50s sound with a real amp, rathe... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k Kalili thanks for advice. I have taken the comments about electronics to heart and just yesterday bought on Audiogon a Sony integrated amp (regular price 2k, got it for 1/2 that). So in a week I'll see how the GX-50s sound with a real amp, rather ... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k UPDATE! Having completed my new car business I'm back in the hunt.. At a lovely local dealer listened to Sonus Guarneri Evolution (24K, but as demos 12K) Focal Electra 1008: $4000/pr (N/I stands).Focal Sopra One: ($9,000, includes stands; The S... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k I'm really grateful for all the input, advice, and good wishes What a great bunch on this site. Seems I have to get a new car before new speakers (old one has 170k miles so it's cool). But will check in whenever I listen to something, and eventual... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k Great and helpful comments. Thanks to all. I'd just add that in my limited audiophile experience I've bought two sets of speakers for 2 different rooms. Both of the sets I bought (BW CM9 and Monitor Audio GX-50) I liked much more than the 1/2 doze... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k My thanks to everyone for great suggestions. So many fine speakers, so little time...!I still wonder if people are buying speakers without hearing them, since while I live in a big city (Boston) there are an awful lot of well reviewed speakers tha... | |
| Standmount speakers 4k-8k I'll see if any of these are around where I live. There are so many brands, and so few are available within, say, 40 miles--either people only buy the brands near where they live or folks are buying without listening! |