sevs
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| Best Soprano and or Tenor perhaps combo you have ever heard?? Live, that would be Maria Biesu (soprano) and Placido Domingo (tenor). Through my stereo, thats a tough one!! | |
| What album do you play over the holidays? Nutcracker by the Russian dude Tchaikovsky! One thing that never changes over Christmas/New Year in my household, it kinda reflects my wish of being born British with a British sense of continuity and "tradition". The one I got in my genes is so b... | |
| The most transparent speaker cable Naim Audio NACA speaker cable. Reasonable price, real pain to bend or terminate, looks ugly but, Boy!, it just disappears!! Check my system to convince yourself that being a Naim-head I am totally prejuced and then disregard this post. ;-) | |
| Best DIY silver solder? Also, check YouTube on how to solder speaker wires by NASA technician: fill the plug with solder, then wick it out, then insert tinned wire and only then Solder! I wish I had the patience to go thru the motions! | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? @dweller Thanks for the tip!! Downloaded Silver Apples onto my Pono, some real crazy stuff! If it was a CD I would have put it next to my Japanese mini-LP boxes of Cluster/Roedelius CDs. Not "droning" by my definition but definitely (like Cluster ... | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? @dweller Thank you for getting my point, I did not mean any disrespect to the posts @ this thread, was rather thinking about those over 2 billion Chinese, Indian, and Russian-speaking dudes perspective on the subject. (Well, and French of course) ... | |
| The King Of... Giorgio MoroderBee GeesDonna Summer as a QueenFrank Farian (the guy behind Boney-M puppets)Precious Wilson (Eruption) was a real Queen of Torture for my grandma who had to suffer thru my Disco years...Yello is still my thing when barbecuing and im... | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? @bdp24 I could not have said better! Exactly my point (re. this thread for >90% of the folks out there) | |
| Rega p3 and Yamaha AS1100 Exactly what I had when TT was next to the speakers! Thats how I check that my table vibration is Not OK. | |
| Do you clean your records before play, after play, or once (and then never again)? thats when I bought VPI-16.5, after reading this:http://square-2.com/wp-content/uploads/Listener_2000sm.jpg :-) | |
| 5 most recognizable voices in American music? The last time I checked the responces, they all come from the US 'goners. Would be interesting to see what the outsiders (like myself) think. Going back 30 years, living in Ukraine, I would have named Ella, Louie, Elvis, Jim Morrison, David Bowie.... | |
| Looking for best recording of The Nutracker on SACD The Nutcracker complete ballet (not Suite or Excerpts) under A. Vedernikov on PentaTone 5186091. OK but not Great...I also go for SACD if there is a choice but my Wadia 781i fails to beat CDs played on my Naim CDS3. My fav is Nutcracker under Gerg... | |
| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? @exron I always thought that the crap flowing thru "Top 30" on the radio or the recommendations nowadays for Prog Rock is my problem of being old and being "imprinted" (Konrad Lorenz term, not mine) with tunes from the 60ies and 70-ies. A few mont... | |
| Test CD s, which ones to get. Easy: any of Stereophile test CDs to check that your Left channel is Left...Then the last chapter of "Get Better Sound" and CD "The Chieftains. tears of stone". If you do not want the torture of listening to Diana Krall and Joni Mitchell while tun... | |
| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? @exron thats why I consider myself blessed by being musically illiterate: I wont be able to "see" any mistakes while listening to Bruckner under Celibidache (and being live recordings there must be many!). My take on this great thread is the same ... |