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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Vivaldi, Viola D'Amore Concertos, Rolla/LisztFerencChO, Barsony -va, Hungaraton SLPX 12162 (Hungaraton made some beautiful recordings during the analog days, this is certainly one of them)Holst, Hymn of Jesus/The Perfect Fool/Egdon Heath, Boult/LP... | |
| where to find Pachelbel"s canon? Agree with Rcprince's recommendation of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra performance on Reference Recordings. Also well recorded is the Boughton/English Chamber Orchestra recording on Nimbus NI 7019, which might be another option. It is coupled wi... | |
| Merlin Owners - Opinions? Tomyran, increasing resolution in speaker designs is, for me, a welcome evolution. But as you point out, it is a two-edged, if not multi-edged, dilemna because increasing the resolution of the speaker puts huge pressure on all the rest of the syst... | |
| Sorry - a couple more newbie analog questions Tooter, I agree with Slate1: there are no stupid questions. I'm glad to see you asking!Your concern about about changing records on the fly is appropriate, and I think Slate1 is spot on in his reply to you. They key factor is whether you can gentl... | |
| Merlin speaker /Amplifier combinations? Woops, sorry to be off topic. | |
| Merlin speaker /Amplifier combinations? Bluebull, there was a thread on this topic here recently if you missed it, with Bobby P. offering his thoughts:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?cspkr&1096195545. | |
| Preamp Recommendations Lamm, Ayre K-1x, BAT 31SE Hmmm... I guess Speakerdude will not be a useful partner in any further discussion. But then, I'm still working to decide how useful that last little diatribe was. It's kind of hard to get any more transparent to the sound of the amp than not havi... | |
| Preamp Recommendations Lamm, Ayre K-1x, BAT 31SE Artg, if you are interested in a high quality tube linestage with remote, I encourage you to add the Aesthetix Calypso to your short list to consider. It offers many of the sonic virtues of its more expensive sibling, the Aesthetix Callisto, with ... | |
| ARC vs Atma-Sphere and ARC vs VTL Amplifiers Atma-Sphere MA-2s and Eidolons: Given Tuboo's experience with MA-2s and Genesis (thanks for sharing this), I thought I should offer some additional comment on my experience with MA-2s and Avalon Eidolons. The Eidolons are also 4 ohm nominal speake... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening to organ music this early evening: just finished a wonderful Pontefract engineered recording on Harmonia Mundi of Rene Saorgin performing Bach's Toccata & Fugue in d minor on a lovely Silbermann organ, Harmonia Mundi HM 1214. And now... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Zaikesman, I've enjoyed your descriptions and comments. Thanks for sharing those!. | |
| Phono Stage for Conrad-Johnson CAV50 Congratulations, Smileshopper. The important thing is always: how does the equipment sound to you? Is it meeting your sonic priorities in what it does? All of this gear is different, each piece has its own strengths and weaknesses, and all of it i... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Last night, continuing the Kenneth Wilkinson track of outstanding recordings :Sibelius, Sym 2, Barbirolli/RPO, Chesky CR 3 (wonderful performance by Barbirolli, one of the best performances of this work, originally from the Readers Digest series r... | |
| pre-amp for original Marantz Model 9 mono amps? Tubeperson, I'll offer a perspective on your last question based on my experience as a previous long term owner of Marantz 9s (20+ years). As much as I loved those amplifiers (particularly when run in triode), imo, they can be competitive with the... | |
| Does this mean I need Pre Amp w/ AtmaSpheres? Yes, that was "the" Ralph Karsten offering comments to your question. One additional thought: the Atma-Sphere MA-1 would certainly be an adequate power match to the Hawks, but you say they're out of your price range. Have you considered buying a u... |