rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| Classical Music for Aficionados Bimasta,Like you, I saw Richter live once, and Glenn Gould as well, at Carnegie Hall.Unfortunately, I had such bad seats in both cases, I couldn’t really hear too well, and really missed a great experience from these masters. | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition Reason i shot first is that I needed an amp quickly, as a stop gap, because my very old one broke down, and I was tired of waiting for repair.Was going stir crazy with new speakers and nothing to play them with.Really just auditioning the Benchmar... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition Flat4,What did Bob do? | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition Thanks to all for the responses. | |
| AVA Ultravalve Vacuum Tube Amplifier by Van Alstine Thank you for the involved description.I appreciate your effort! | |
| AVA Ultravalve Vacuum Tube Amplifier by Van Alstine Jsl1234,Forgive my ignorance but what is the difference between triode and pentode operation? | |
| Spotify for classical music lovers I had Qobuz for a few months. The problem I had with it was it didn’t have nearly the search engines that IDAGIO has for classical music. | |
| Recommendation for tube amp. If I had $5000 to spend I probably would look at the McIntosh amp.When it comes time to buy I’ll most likely check out the van Alstine.Good reviews (what doesn’t have good reviews?) and definitely within my budget.Anyone else have any comments abo... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Truly one of the greats! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Another controversial pianist besides Nyiregyházi, but in a completely different way, is Glenn Gould, one of my idols. Sheer genius to my mind. And a technique to match ANYONE!Just listening to his recording of the late Beethoven sonatas recorded... | |
| Any way I could have damaged my speakers? I just committed a similar misjudgment but wasn’t so lucky. I was installing new speaker cable using banana plugs but didn’t remove the spade lug already attached to one of the amplifier leads. Actually played fine until I tried removing the spade... | |
| Recommendation for tube amp. Scott, I’m intrigued by your recommendation of the van Alstine. Did you use it with the Tritons? It certainly is affordable. And they say it’s inspired by the old Dyna Stereo 70 which I owned and loved. | |
| Recommendation for tube amp. I’m using a Conrad-Johnson PV-11 preamp just recently Teflon recapped.More info re: speakers:Nominal impedance: 8 ohmsRecommended amplification: 20-650 wpc | |
| Looking for more transparency. My new Morrow speaker cables did the trick.Night and day difference from my very old Cardas cables.smoother and much more transparent! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Mahgister,Are you sure you don’t mean IVAN Moravec?A HANS Moravec is into robotics. |