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| What Is Your Favorite Vintage Amplifier? My heart is still with the classic Marantz 9 monoblocks. I owned a pair for over 20 years that I'd had slightly updated with a few better quality parts. Operated in triode mode at 35 watts per channel, they were simply delicious. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dylan - Blond on Blond - 45 rpm reissue from MFSL. I'm impressed with the sonics of this reissue. I'd been hearing a fair number of negative comments, but in my system and to my ears this is a terrific release. Roy Gaines - I got the T-Bone Walker... | |
| Testament records reissues Svenjosh,I'll be interested in your reactions to the Testament reissues you decide to purchase. Please let us know!. | |
| Testament records reissues I have half a dozen or so Testament reissues of EMI orchestral recordings, none of the solo violin or small scale. The Testaments are reasonably good. I haven't had original EMIs against which to compare them, only early pressing Angel and Capitol... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Roy Eldridge, Rockin' Chair (Speakers Corner reissue)Schumann - Piano Trio in D - Previn/Chung/Tortelier - EMI Maconchy - String Quarter No. 5 - Allegri Sring Qt - Argo ZRG 5329Robert De Visee - Pieces for Theorbe, Lute & Guitar - Nigel North ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Prokofiev - Quintet in G Shostakovich - Piano Quintet, op57 / Melos Ensemble, L'Oiseau SOL 267Prokofiev - Love for Three Oranges | Scythian Suite / Dorati/LSO, Mercury SR 90006 (Classic Records 45rpm reissue)Lee Morgan - Volume 3 / Blue Note (Musi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Such a marvelous recording engineered by Peter McGrath!Handel Water Music - Harmondia Mundi | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Selections from this and that...Handel: Semele - Gardiner/English Baroque Solotists/EratoBerlioz: Les Troyens - Davis/Royal Opera House Orch/PhilipsTchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: Polonaise - Fiedler/BostonPops/Readers DigestBeethoven: Fidelio Overtur... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Albert, I don't have Anastasis. Thanks for the recommendation. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Albert,What I'm hearing is blacker background, a bit more definition in the leading edge of transients, and a bit more air and space. The differences would not make be duplicate a good clean original because the original is shockingly good. But... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A bit of music thus far this morning with my listening partner:Counting Crows, August and Everything After - Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue (Can I admit to getting bored? Oh my...)Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver rei... | |
| New to classical..looking for recommendations Good post, Schubert! | |
| New to classical..looking for recommendations Tboooe,This thread may be of use to you:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1107016344&openusid&zzRushton&4&5#Rushton. | |
| Tube Mono-Block Recommendation I drive Avalon Acoustic Eidolons with the MA-2s. Power cords for the amps are Silent Source Signature cables. Speaker cables are Omega Micro Planar V, but I'd use Silent Source Music Reference speaker cables today. These are the most neutral I've ... | |
| Tube Mono-Block Recommendation Picture of Atma-Sphere MA-2 underside:http://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/pics/atmasphere_2.jpgThis image posted in an article by Marc Mickelson in The Audio Beat:http://www.theaudiobeat.com/visits/tab_summer_audio_adventure.htm |