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| Reference Recordings An exception to the usual distant RR sound is a new recording of Beethoven’s 9th with Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Streaming on Idagio, the Reference immediate sound seems spectacularly suited to the piece.(Does the exception prove the rule... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I’ve discovered another great Russian pianist on Idagio: Zlada Chocheva.She’s recorded the complete piano works of Rachmaninoff and the complete Chopin Etudes plus a deliciously played compilation of piano transcriptions of orchestral works.Her di... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music I don’t think anyone has mentioned Leonard Bernstein as an educator.He was the greatest introducer of classical music to generations of music lovers.You might want to seek out his series of Young People’s Concerts on DVD as a start. Although thes... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Idagio has numerous search engines to find whatever your looking for quickly.Tremendous catalog of classical works, including, in some cases, multiple versions of the same performance.And the SQ to my ears is superior to Qobuz.Wonderful service.Fr... | |
| Please Educate Me To the OP,Why do you allow your bell to be rung?As a fellow New Yorker (albeit now a suburbanite,) I would think you’d be able to shrug this kind of dreck off.Your question is a perfectly logical one to me.Im surprised you keep coming back for mor... | |
| Modified vintage CJ preamp vs. new one It’s entirely possible that the ET 6 will sound better, but the modified PV 11 is pretty clean and definitely does not sound muddled especially as it is paired with a Benchmark AHB2 amplifier. | |
| Modified vintage CJ preamp vs. new one The ET 6 | |
| Reference Recordings As for the ‘50’s RCA and Mercury reissues on CD, I find the latter to be consistently fine sounding, but the former to be of very uneven sound quality. | |
| Reference Recordings Minimalist miking doesn’t necessarily produce poor sound staging. The classic 1950’s RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence recordings were minimally miked but had wonderful sound staging. | |
| Reference Recordings Tweak1,I’ve had the same experience. The better my system, the better they sounded.BUT, sound staging has never been a strong point, as they prefer distant microphone placement. Some like it that way.I don’t. | |
| Reference Recordings I’m not talking about the RR LPs, They’re Fantastic.I’m referring to their CDs.If you can hear soundstaging on them, you have some unusual system. | |
| Reference Recordings And yet, they’re held in such high regard.I guess by the mid-fi crowd | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I heard Nyiregyházi recordings many decades ago when he was “rediscovered”at that time. My opinion hasn’t changed. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados While there is a certain attractiveness to Nyiregyházi, I don’t find him to be in the “god” class either. He seems to be a throwback to the 19th century, with its romantic excesses. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Jim204,Yes he was!Ferocious technique and yet the power to reduce you to tears. |