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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Schumann, Cello Concerto - Janos Starker/Skrowaczewski/LSO, Mercury SR 90347 (Speakers Corner reissue. A wonderful recording of a great performance. Speakers Corner delivers yet again with a sonic wonder of a reissue. Don't miss it.). | |
| While listening to my system my Rhea blew up Your description is like a tube failing catastophically and taking out something with it.. | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Would it be beneficial to go all tubes or keep the solid state preamp and monoblocks ?????There's no absolute answer to this, I'm afraid. For my listening priorities, all tubes is the path I've followed and will continue to follow. But there are t... | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Radrog, I use the Io with a .36mv output moving coil cartridge, use the stock tubes, and don't experience any material tube noise from my listening seat at my normal listening volumes. But keep in mind, the Io generates 80db of gain entirely throu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Vol. 1 - Columbia CL 851 (wonderful music making from 1925 and 1927!) Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 - Kletzki/PhilharmoniaO, Pollini -pf, EMI ASD 370 (Testament reissue - superb) Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown; Lightf... | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Hmmm, let me put it this way... A friend just replaced three tweaked out KPEs with an Aesthetix Rhea and the improvement in his system was dramatic. The Aesthetix Rhea devestates the Krell and the Aesthetix Io Signature plays in the league above t... | |
| If you had 10k to spend on tube amp????? For what speakers? Amps and speakers should always be considered in combination with one another. Nonetheless, my short list would include: Atma-Sphere OTLs (the MA-2s will drive most speakers but a used pair will be over your limit, the MA-1s req... | |
| Which is your fav Beethoven String Qt version? Tatrai, Vegh and Berg (for the late quartets). | |
| Aethetix IO Signature Question Radrog, I use the Aesthetix Io Signature with dual power supplies. In the usual parlance of "musical" versus "analytical," I would say that the Io is in the "musical" camp as far as devices of this caliber are capable of being classified. The Io h... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture of Heath - Pure Pleasure reissue, great music making Alison Krauss/Live - MFSL 3-281 Lennox Berkeley: Divertimento - Lyrita SRCS 74 Beethoven: Kruetzer Sonata, Heifitz RCA LSC 2577 (Cisco reissue)Lars-Erik Lar... | |
| Where are you today? Have always stayed with tubes here - preamp and power amp. I've never found the correct rendering of the timbre and harmonic overtones of acoustic instruments any other way. From what I keep hearing in other systems, I don't expect to change from ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? More chamber music tonight starting with Franz Berwald's "String Quarter in g" played by the Chilingirian Quartet on CRD 1061. The CRD label (England) is well worth searching out for those who enjoy chamber music. Most of the recordings are by the... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Music of William Alwyn, twentieth century English composer:Rhapsody for Pf QtStr Qt 3Str Trio (1962)> the Quartet of London, on Chandos ABRD 1153 - yes it's a digital recording, but it sounds great"Naiades," Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and HarpDiv... | |
| Recommendations on the music of Astor Piazzolla Slipknot,Fone released at least a couple LPs of Piazzolla's music with Accardo:PIAZZOLLA/ADIOS NONINO 45rpm 200g 2LPASTOR PIAZZOLLA - OBLIVION, LP-002 (out of print)The Kronos Quartet perform "Four for Tango" on Nonesuch 79181.. | |
| Monoblocks to consider? The Atma-Sphere MA-1 monoblocks are a great match with the Merlin speakers. I listened to Sbank's system many times when he had the Bernings and then after he switched to the Atma-Sphere. The Bernings were a nice match and are excellent amplifiers... |