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Responses from schubert
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? Hearing is not just a matter of ears, you brain remembers and fills in the gaps.Hence famous conductors in the 80's and beyond ,who can't hear 5k on an audiology machine, have no problem correcting a violinist playing in his highest register.What ... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Courant,nothing wrong with Foster and yes he does occupy a significant place in music as it relates to American cultural history.However, comparing him to H. Schutz, perhaps second only to Bach as a composer of religious music, is like comparing a... | |
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? I'm pushing 80 and bought myself a new Van Alstine Sunergy 450 for Xmas. Picked it up at AVA "factory" myself, drives my Maggies great, a good match with the Audio Analogue Bellini pre I got on here.Now I'm thinking of a new tube pre-hmmmmm . | |
| Specific Specs to Recommend a Bookshelf Speaker A pair of cheap NIT super zeros will do better than most,spending more is useless. | |
| Franco Serblin RIP A man with true class. RIP | |
| Small difference equating to a big difference? Analysis Plus will do that. IMHO far and away the best buys in audio, even their basic 99$ IC's are killers. | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations My pastor says two is ample unless you are playing Bach, then four are required. | |
| Volume affected by uneven lengths of spker cable?? Different lengths will load an amp differently, has zip to do with time. Might be slight harmonic differences but unlikely you will notice them unless you are chanelling Mozart. | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? No chance, last "optomistic' German was Hegel.The most optomistic american was the one who thought gun control was possible after the slaughter in CT.Or perhaps the one who thought his order of the same Bushmaster model used would be less than the... | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations IKEA tables are like Harbeth speakers, thin so they don't store energy. | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Brownsfan, I have been told by a very gifted local retired horn player (30+ years in SW German Radio Orch)who was a sub in the St. Paul CO, that lack of audience was the main factor.The SPCO wanted to start playing in the public schools gratis, bu... | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Those thinkers were stupid then, hearing recorded Classical music only makes you thrist to hear the real thing. I am a realist by nature like any good european, only americans use wretched terms like "optimist" . | |
| Speaker for modern/alt rock music The "music" is really messy and harsh, what did you expect?Buy some old Advents and be happy. | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? I am an old man, the two worst things I have seen come into being in my long life time are TV and Rock "music".The medium is indeed the message. | |
| Who Will Stand the Test of Time? Well perhaps serious music will survive in Asia, but when an ensemble as world-class as the St. Paul Chamber Orch., located in perhaps the most sophisticated area between the coasts in the USA fails for lack of an audience, I am not inclined to th... |