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Whats playing on your system today?
Grieg, Piano Concerto in A MinorGrant Johannesen , Pianist,  Utah Symphony   Maurice Abravanel, Conductor  
So just how much vinyl do YOU own?
Well, I have made many moves in my life and right now have about 600 LP’s. If I had all the ones I had to leave about 7,000 . 95% Classical .And, as has be said, there is NO sub for LP’s !That said, one can stream with a laptop in the nursing home . 
The best music in 2019
Same one who has been for about 300 years , J.S. Bach ! 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Well ,   you have  better taste than me jcazador. There are 3 people in music I just plain don't like . First and foremost , Wagner, followed by Miles Davis and Liszt .But I will try to listen to the Biret if it doesn't cost me any money .Thank you . 
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To the Czechs and Slovaks Rudolf Firkusny is THE man for Janacek’s piano works and I wouldn’t argue with them.There is something right about smaller forces for many composers , their music was written for same . My local St.Paul CO is world class... 
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There is a great recording of Janacek's  First and Second  Qts . on IDAGIO by a Qt. I had never heard of , Quartetto Energie Nove  ,  members of the Swiss Orchestra for the Italian area out of Lugago .There must be twenty recordings of his Qts . o... 
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Thanks , jim . I have a Beyer A 20 amp, built like a brick, as all Beyer gear is , that drives my DT 990 600 ohm easily . By my bed so I can have a Leos Janacek Qt . lull me to sleep . The "On an Overgrown Path" album on idagio is outstanding . Pe... 
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Its on my laptop and least it stays on eating cookies .My go to Beyer DT 990 Pro is too much for the laptop so I just ordered 2.5mm connects for my senns and bought some Audioquest Nighthawk phones which are low impedence and might work better wit... 
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I'm using a Audioquest  Red Dragonfly  which has great reviews and has always been very good  for me . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Try encoded . 
Classical Music for Aficionados
Aye, Scot W’a Hare is a battle cry , as a pacifist I’m agan it, but as an old squady the war horse in me paws the ground . Flower of Scotland is a better choice . I knew that are parts of Arbroath in it .The US system in general is a bunch of slav... 
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jim I’ll check the Corries , never heard them .Zenith of my Scottish music was I got to eat dinner across from Andy Steward after a solo concert in Cornwall , Ontario . Was a very nice and humble guy , we discussed how rotten it was that a Scottis... 
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Well , you have a better command of the English tongue than any person I ever met who did not .I have a strong hunch you daughter did so well because she is your daughter.I asked because I was accepted as an undergrad at Glasgow after being  a squ... 
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I do the same with a pr. of Totem Signature 1 stand mounts and a Gallo cylindrical sub which is both fast and unobtrusive .The best thing I did was put the speakers on Target stands with Herbie’s fat dots under them and 40 lbs of a mix of lead and... 
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And how laddy , I had that and loved It , victim of my many moves .All those decades behind us and Previn still has the very best recordings of many of the best British composers ! Perfect example of a conductor and an orchestra both at their zeni...