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| Best recoding of Mozart's Requiem FYI, that Hogwood recording is not the classic version of the Requiem completed by Mozart's student Süssmayr. The Hogwood recording is a version by Richard Maunder. So unless you are prepared for parts of movements, and entire movements not starte... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. I actually like pairing a tube preamp with a solid state amplifier. I find this combination gives me the best of both worlds; without the shortcommings of either format individually. This is especially true in more mid-priced systems.There are als... | |
| 6SL7 the same as 6SN7 ??? A VT-231/6SN7 is also a 5692 tube.A VT-229/6SL7 is also a 5691 tube | |
| MIT cables on Audio Advisor? All cables are AA are not outdated, but they do buy out a lot of close-out stock cheap from manufacturers as well. If what you bought is selling for current prices they are current stock. AA always deeply discounts the old stock they pick up cheap... | |
| BNC to RCA If you are afraid about quality of using an adapter, then take it to a tech and have the BNCs replaced with high quality OFC RCAs. | |
| BNC to RCA I've used the BNC/RCA adapters at Radio Shack. They work fine. | |
| MIT cables on Audio Advisor? Those older T2 at Audio Advisor are good cables. A good rule of thumb is the current new model MIT are one step higher than before. The currently T2 have incorporated some of the old next higher rung MIT 750 technology. The current new T3 is proba... | |
| SEPT 11? I will be performing in a program and concert at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland. It will be broadcast live on WYPR 88.1 FM starting at 7:30pm. It is free and open to the public as well (Kraushaar Auditorium). No tickets needed. | |
| Best Beethoven Symphonies? Karajan? Detlof....Weller is a popular conductor of the Beethoven Society in Vienna, so I am not the only one who likes his conducting and interpretation. | |
| Best classic pre and post amp combinations The classic Conrad Johnson Motif MC-8 FET preamp has exactly that. It has two completely separate phono inputs; one high MC, the other low MM. It has two tape loops. It has two pre-outs (for two amplifiers). It also has two regular line level inpu... | |
| Best Beethoven Symphonies? Karajan? The usual suspects above are all very very good. You won't be disapointed in any of them. My sleeper recording is the complete set recorded by Walter Weller with the City of Birmingham Orchestra on Chandos (and available from the Musical Heritage ... | |
| I wanna hear some "audio" jokes...and This Christmas, Mom decided to give me a couple of albums on compact disc. Not knowing my taste in music, she went down to the local record store and tried to buy some "blank CDs." According to her, the sales clerk "wasn't very helpful." Also Enj... | |
| What is "critical listening"? That's interesting Detlof, cause for me it is the opposite. I am much more a critical listener in music lover mode. This goes beyond the audio system and into live music.I realized other people noticed back when I lived in Rhode Island. A year whe... | |
| Least cost way to send amp to USA from Belgium? Have you considered the good old US Mail? I would choose Air Parcel Post. (Regular Parcel Post takes forever if international). | |
| Quick bi-wire question It really depends on your amp. If the two sets of terminals were made for Bi-wire then fine. (Only using one set of terminals here is fine also.) If the two terminal sets were made for two separate pairs of speakers, then I would not use both.Seco... |