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Responses from schubert
| Classical Music for Aficionados Subjective indeed rvpiano.To me Brahms is the greatest Symphonist since Mozart . I listen to at least 1 Brahms symphony a day, every day and never tire of them .In symphonic realm only others I can say that about are Mozart and Sibelius . | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here There are a pr of Thiel 2’s on local Craigslist , look good , wants 250$, is that a good deal ? | |
| Jazz for aficionados rok2id, I disremember the musician I heard say it(Andre Previn ?)but I never forgot it ." Rock and Roll, the Hamburger that ate the World " . | |
| Why are so many people trying to sell Harbeths? Re; Harbeth price .US dollar has lost over 25% against Euro in last year and that’s the "official " rate than about 5 banks in the world get .My neighbor just got back from France, said she got 70 cents Euro for a buck both with AmEx and Visa at A... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I was taken by the performance of Adam Fisher and the Dusseldorf Symphony . Fisher handled the over-emotionality and variants that bother me in Mahler very well and it was a live performance from the Dusseldorf Tonhalle which has very good acousti... | |
| Diana Krall Gordon's little trinket is silly and Diana is fair at best . | |
| Diana Krall Everybody Creates , it's human nature .You're right about the not easy part though . | |
| Diana Krall Amen 1 extreme ! Truer words were never spoken, at least in audio circles . | |
| Where do I start-amp or speakers ? I have a rich friend, a very rich friend , who started with a ten K system and over a years time in about 20K increments moved to a 100 K system .The 1K speakers he started were never changed because he liked how they looked .They had no problem s... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I had 101’s as well .Also 105, 103.2 , 104, and various Q series with Tweeter in the middle , My all time favorite was 104ab .Also had a huge pair of Brit IMF’s with fab transmission line base that used the most musicaldriver line up in history , ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I have 4 of the last 5 you mentioned kef lover (-the Archduke).The Bloch/Hanson/ Mercury is my favorite but all 4 are winners .P.S. I used KEF's for over 20 years . One of the composers I have appreciated more and more in my old age is Ravel , and... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview I have no idea if it is so but I've read several times that all those Beatles songs claimed to be written by them were not written by them . | |
| Nordost Odin or Valhalla 2 If it wasn't dying there would be no wait list . | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Oh, on a closing note, my candidate for most unappreciated and underplayed Master of the last century is Paul Hindemith . | |
| Spotify goes public. What will it mean for music lovers? Not much |