rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| Accuracy vs. Enjoyment I think I’m raising this question because of my current setup on which good CDs are sounding wonderful, but others not so much. I had to send my vintage CJ preamp out for repair three weeks ago and have replaced it temporarily with a solid stat... | |
| Oppo exploring additional production of UDP 205 Don’t give up hope. Just got this message:”We received some of the units last week and will receive the remaining units mid-September. So you will likely receive an invitation sometime this month to purchase a unit.” | |
| Oppo exploring additional production of UDP 205 I just wrote to them, asking.Guess I’ll have to make do with the 105. Listening to a SACD on it now.Not bad at all! | |
| Oppo exploring additional production of UDP 205 That’s very sad. | |
| Recommendations for a few high SQ classical CDs I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the Mercury classical catalog.Saint-Sean’s 3rd Symphony with Paray, or Prokofiev’s 5th with Dorati on this label are magnificent performances and blockbuster sounding discs. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Learsfool,I knew I should have re-listened to the Brahms 4th before, off the top of my head, I cited the example as being a solo. Laziness! | |
| Oppo 105 D vs. DAC-transport combination. What a difference with the new power cord.Hard to exaggerate how much better the Cyrus-Gumby combo sounds than anything else I’ve tried. | |
| Oppo 105 D vs. DAC-transport combination. The coax (Morrow) kicked in finally, but it doesn’t sound as good as the optical. Maybe it has to break in more | |
| Oppo 105 D vs. DAC-transport combination. In case anyone is still following this thread, I’ll update it. I finally got a power cable from Cyrus itself, and, lo and behold, it’s a THREE pronged IEC hole instead of the two hole designed for the unit. The good news is that it works and soun... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados One of my favorite horn solos is at the beginning of the 2nd movement of Brahms’ Fourth Symphony. Haunting. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Learsfool,By any chance have you ever come across hornist, Doug Lyons.He is an extraordinary player. I once played harpsichord continuo to his flawless rendering of the trumpet part of Bach’s 2nd Brandenburg Concerto transcribed to the horn. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I know that the subject of Wagner can be a very volatile one.If one associates Wagner with Nazism it is inevitable to have a reaction. I, personally, feel that we have to dissociate the music from the man. I know music does not exist in isolation... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Learsfool,In my research I found the overwhelming evidence and opinion is that Bach, NOT Handel was the main Baroque influence.It was said that when a new edition of the Bach Gesselschaft (just being compiled at the time) came to him, he would eag... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Just a word about Wagner. His adoption of the Baroque is quite different from Brahms’. Brahms is more typical of the “fire and fury” of the late Italian Baroque influence on Bach. Wagner’s Baroque leanings are from an earlier period, a lot diffe... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados At least it wasn’t Shaw who wrote “Exit in case of Brahms.”That was Philip Hale of the Boston Globe.Brahms, about whom I wrote a dissertation, was music’s great historian among composers. Like Mozart, whose style was enhanced after his study of Ba... |