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| What are the best monitor speakers for classical? Anything Triangle makes , though they are hard to find in USA .My hears tell me France is building speakers on a level with their food .Short of that the small Silverlines and Totems do well .Best little speaker I ever heard was Totem Dream Catch... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados gdnrbob, that’s mandatory in Finnish Schools which are # 1 in the world .Were about where we are, about# 28, 30 years ago, but music, no homework and a few other like things have made Finnish kids LOVE school , you love, you learn !Also, in Finlan... | |
| Focal No.2 Speaker System: A New Age Dawns True, Frank Van Alstine told me in 40 years he's never has a customer complain he bought too big an amp . | |
| What do you think of your Soundsmith Cartridge Even my lowly $400 Otello has more detail than any Grado, also an MI , I've heard under a grand . In Classical that is important . | |
| Jazz for aficionados jafant, Its not in any history book because it is not true , the usual reason .And no Italians were sold at the slave block at Ellis Island and families thrown to the 4 winds . To overcome that in Socializing takes about 300 years on average . | |
| Jazz for aficionados Tell it like it is 0-10 . | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Since music is an emotional instinct that sounds pretty normal to me . As I said , my technical is small but after attending over 2,000 concerts in last 50 years you get a fairly good idea what’s what .I’ll listen to anybody who plays with passion... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Thanks pryso, it sounds funny but it’s da truth or close to it anyway .Re; no musical training . In Berlin my neighbor was a player in one of the best German orchestras , the Berlin R.I.A.S . My wife was in a near mother-daughter relationship with... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Amen , gdnrbob.I once sat about 20 ft from Uchida playing Schubert at the Marlboro Festival . Her back was to me and it was not a warm day , but her shirt got soaking wet with effort on D960 B flat .At or near the top of my list for both Schub... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano, I feel you .I used to say I have the greatest 15K system in the world and it only costme 45K !geoffkait , you got that right homey , best voice I ever heard and ALWAYS done with pure class and respect for the music ! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados pryso + kef I had a "trick" I used to play on guys ,and gals, over to listen to my system .As you know , Pavarotti made a career out of" Nessum Dorma" late in life.I would play the big guys version and everyone, including me, was in awe of the... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I feel that way too kef lover.I feel genuine sorrow when I hear/read guys in their 60’s debating which heavy metal band was the greatest .I never heard a note of Classical till my late 20’s and then I heard the GREAT Swedish tenor Jussi Borling si... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Small world , I wrote mine on a German subject as well, The Weimar Republic . Slipped in a bit on the Weill/Brecht " Rise and Fall of the City ofMahagonny " .I’ve been telling folks for forty years than Haydn’s 6,7, 8 (Le matin;Le midi. Le Soir) a... | |
| Diana Krall Whether floats your boat floats you boat . I'm glad she brings you comfort as she does many others .That said , there have been many singers with little talent that have had great careers lasting well over a decade or three . | |
| Which Patricia Barber album floats yer boat? Her boat sank . |