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What are your TWO favorite Symphonic Recordings?
Learsfool,Overture Hall in Madison has great acoustics, what is your hall like? 
Has anyone heard the new Rega RP10?
I want to listen to music, not get a new kit assembly hobby. 
What a Songstress Julie London
She was also a very fine person , beloved by all who met or worked with her.Also gave large amounts of money to Child Charities, just a lovely human being. 
Jazz for aficionados
She really did, I've read dozens of her friends and colleagues and saying this.Also, they all said she was as nice a person as they ever met and it was not the usual false praise of the dead.She also gave great amount of money to Child Charaties, ... 
Budget $3000-3500 new or used
Jmcgrogan, I agree ,wise advice, but there are two speaker brands I will buy unheard . Rega and Silverline. 
Seeking some guidance on Sinatra
Listen to Bennett instead. 
What a Songstress Julie London
The greatest american female ballad singer.She could go upbeat just as well, but her producers seldom let her. 
Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll
Its aimed at you crotch, not your mind or soul, unless you're evil of course. 
Best cheap speaker cables............again
DNM just get out of the way on any kind of music, I have 2 prs and they are good in any system or any room.Best bang for the buck there is and I've tried them all. 
Anyone else using the VonSchweikert vr35 speakers?
Van Alstine Synergy 450 . 
KEF LS50
Larrybou, I agree totally , for many years KEF was my fave brand . No more, much of their Chinese stuff is horrible. LS 50 being a prime example for the reason you described. 
Jazz for aficionados
I hear you on Julie London Foster 9, beyond doubt the best american female ballad singer.But she had little confidence in her own talent and sang what her producers put in front of her.The few recordings she made of real upbeat hard-core jazz song... 
Budget $3000-3500 new or used
Listen carefully to how the slight, but audible smearing of mass strings , makes brass overemphasized .Of course could be just my ears, but others have heard it too.All that matters in any case is if you're happy. 
Need "warm" interconnects advice
ZU Gede are just that but seldom come up on here. 
What are your TWO favorite Symphonic Recordings?
Thanks, Frog . I've been to at least 1K, probally closer to 2k, classical concerts, NEVER heard anyone playing anythingwith the ease Helseth plays the Trumpet.Well, perhaps Claudio Arrau,I heard him several times in Berlin, seemed like he just loo...