texasdave
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| Spectacular Drum Set? There is some mighty fine drumming/percussion that is spectacularly well recorded on "Tony Dagradi Trio: Live at the Columns," Turnipseed (don't laugh) Music CD. This is a jazz trio (saxophone, bass, drums/percussion) recorded live in New Orleans ... | |
| Any Audiophile recording of The Planets? My first choice (I've got several versions) is the one by Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on Decca/London. An excellent performance and superb sound (recorded in St. Eustache by the great John Dunkerley). Trust me, you wo... | |
| Favorite Movie Soundtrack Gone With the Wind, the classic film score by Max Steiner, performed by Charles Gerhardt conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra in RCA's Classic Film Scores series. A great score, a great performance, and great sound (engineered by the leg... | |
| Instruments of the Orchestra Many thanks for the responses. Yes, I know Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and have had his recording of it for many years; it's fine but is not what I'm looking for here. Thanks for the Naxos suggestion, Rush; I should have known ... | |
| Spectacular Drum Set? Many thanks for all the good leads. | |
| What power is required to drive Paradigm 100's I have a pair of Paradigm Studio 100's and also a Denon 3803 A/V receiver. I find the Denon 3803 fine for home theater but sonically just not good enough for serious listening to music. And let me add that I'm a Denon fan: I've got two Denon DCD-1... | |
| Purist Audio System Enhancer CD I had the wind knocked out of me when I learned that the price of this single CD is $150! Good Lord! | |
| The best CD Player for the money Everyone has his opinion on this subject, and what is affordable to one is not to another. I'd like to recommend the very affordable Denon "Audiophile Series" DCD-1650AR, original MSRP $1,000-$1,200, but good used ones are available for half of th... | |
| Suggestions for CD burner Suggest you check out the Sony ES RCD-W2000ES (MSRP $600). I've had one for the past year, have used it extensively, and am very pleased with it. It is very flexible, easy to use, and makes copies of extremely high audio quality. | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? "Old and In the Way," a classic live bluegrass concert by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements, and John Kahn, at the Boarding House, San Francisco, Oct. 8, 1973. | |
| Dahlquist DQ-20 Fan club Rant Opalchip, re WAF, suggest shipping the wife off to her Mom for a few days and presenting her with a fait accompli when she returns. Need to get those tweeters as close together as you can, to preserve your good imaging/soundstaging qualities. At l... | |
| Dahlquist DQ-20 Fan club Rant Opalchip, why don't you let us know how your experiment with stacked DQ20's works out, once you get them dialed in? | |
| favorite SOPRANO? Yes, Kiri Te Kanawa should have been on my short list of most beautiful soprano voices, and here's a stunning, offbeat track of hers that most opera buffs don't know about. In 1974, when she was in her youthful prime, not yet an internationally fa... | |
| McIntosh XRT30, 29 & 28 Drseid, Many thanks for your very helpful and informative post. It is much appreciated. | |
| Upgrade from Spendor BC-1: need ideas Your question intrigues me and I'd like to propose one possible solution. Let me begin by saying that I'm a retired university professor who's been an audiophile for 40 years and was a silent partner in a high-end audio business for five years (fr... |