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Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
Frogman, I am eternally in your debt."Miladi" was one of the pieces I had read about but never heard.The version I found locally was by Ensemble Walter Boeykens on Harmonia Mundi . Both the group and work are of the highest order, reminding me of ... 
JBL 4425 or Yamaha NS-1000 ? pls vote
Hard to imagine anyone preferring the JBL's over NS1000 . 
Computer based system. Need advice on DAC.
Thestyx, have any idea if the UD-301 can handle Symphonic Crescendos ? To my ear a lot of DACS can't . 
The Band: S/T and/or Music from the Big Pink
I my be hallucinating, I often do, but to my ears Nat King Cole never got recorded anywhere near as well as Sinatra on Capitol, which to me was a Class A Felony . 
Is Vinyl Worth It
I like CD better but my brain begs to differ. 
Audioengine B1 Bluetooth - Really Surprised
A lot of people in this world would like to have shoes and a decent meal but can't afford it. 
How do you respond to this question?
My analogue brain seems to prefer sine-waves over dit-dots . 
Turntable placement
Had exactly the same thing happen Wolf.I am firmly with all the Brit companies who preach the low mass gospel. 
Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
Frogman, re Janacek, on hope you've played him or looked at scores.I keep trying to spread the gospel on Leos but folk find him too "dissonant" .I hear him as the epitome of that old-time Czech tonality , as far as my amateur ear can tell he write... 
Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
The other make changes and develop themes.Schubert comes at you from 20 directions at once and they are all related . 
Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
Think about it Tubegroover, Schubert had written more now acknowledged masterworks by his death at 31 than Beethoven or almost any other composer had by that age.No less a figure than Brahms, who may well have been the most learned of all composer... 
You know you're an audiophile if--
Syntax, from what I've seen, your post is both absolutely true and succinct ! 
Top Ten Tuners of all Time??
I owned about fifty in last 40 years.Best was Sanyo T-35 ,only piece of gear I ever gave a burial . No joke . 
Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
I thought surely someone would of mentioned it by now, but as nobody has, I'll mention a work that belongs in all collections .Carl Nielsen's Op. 43 Wind Quintet , up there in Mozart winds league with modernistic melody structure .Vienna Quintet o... 
Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc
Well. IMO the daddy of them all from a modern composer, is String Qt. # 2, Intimate Letters" by the great Czech Leos Janacek .