rushton
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| Who Do You Credit For Getting You Into This Hobby? My closest friend in high school who introduced me to classical music. We spent a summer attending a Mozart series conducted by James DePriest at the Kennedy Center, and then wandering off to look at the local audio emporiums wondering if there wa... | |
| Tube amp with SS like bass Atma-Sphere OTL amps deliver the tightest and most articulate bass of any amps I've heard; all the positive benefits of solid state control with the ability to reproduce harmonic overtones, timbre and resolution only seen with the best tubes. Unfo... | |
| Analog experiment Congratulations, Arthur: go for the music, always!Also: thank you for your good hearted willingness to explore and then to simply say what you're hearing. I commend you for your contributions here.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Sounds like a good evening, Joe! Wish I could be listening with you. For Sunday, I've pulled out the new Everest Khatchaturian reissue from Classic, an early Leo Kottke ("6 and 12 String Guitar"), the new Skip James "Today" reissue from Pure Pleas... | |
| Analog experiment Aball, thanks for posting the results of your experiment. You've found a good place to be in your enjoyment of just a single format! One thought on your methodology, however: you might find that you begin to notice the difference between vinyl and... | |
| What new amp for my Merlins Jaydiane, You might check with member Sbank who recently changed to Atma-Sphere MA-1 amps on his Merlin VSM-MXs. I understand he's enjoying the combination.Link to Sbank's system description. | |
| Tube preamp suggestions. You would probably like the conrad-johnson preamps. Among used preamps, the c-j PV-9A, if you can find one, is extremely good with an excellent phono stage (for medium to higher output cartridges). | |
| Philadelphia, PA and surrounding area Hi, Mctgood. Thanks for your interest! I've sent you an email directly. | |
| The end of Audio Intelligent ... Paul, you created an excellent product and made it available to the audio community with courtesy and grace. The way you have closed your business evidences that same grace and character. Good luck and best wishes as you focus on those things that... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oregon, have fun in your explorations! As you find a genre you enjoy and would like additional suggestions, feel free to ask. Lots of people here will be happy to reply. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listening with friends earlier in the day (there's no better way), among other LPs:McNeely, Confederation, Sheffield Lab 9 (d-to-d) (Bluegrass played with verve and fun, no holding back just because it's being record live direct to disc as on so m... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Forgot to mention: several of the threads listed in the post above are general introductions to exploring classical music, others focus on recommendations about specific recordings to explore within a genre of classical music.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? For classical music recommendations, there are some good threads in the Audiogon archives. Here are links to some of them:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1116521882http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1073617755http:... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Oregon, glad to hear you've enjoyed some of the classical music posts. As you say "Lots to enjoy" as one explores this genre. I really like your approach of looking for music that will move you! That's what it's all about. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? You're welcome, Larry. Thanks for posting that this was useful to you!. |