twoleftears
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| new Eva Cassidy "Somewhere" Listened to "Somewhere" last night, and agree with much of what has been said in this thread so far. The people who compiled this were certainly scouring the archives. Still, it is Eva C. I don't think the song choices showed off her vocal talents... | |
| So whats your favorite music themed movie? As no one else seems to be supporting it, I'm going to give another vote (remember: vote early, vote often) to "Death in Venice". | |
| Mendelssohn string quintets Jhold--thanks in turn for the recommendation. As for M'sohn chamber music, I only have a disc of the quartets, and one of the--yes, great--Octet. So this will come in nicely. | |
| So whats your favorite music themed movie? I forgot Death In Venice: fabulous film, superlative music. | |
| So whats your favorite music themed movie? Wot? No one mentioned yet "Tous les matins du monde"!Or, come to that, High Fidelity? | |
| An Audiophile's journey However you can make a speaker pretty much independent of amplification by making it "active". You mean like ATCs and PMCs? | |
| Any Audiophile recording of The Planets? Avoid: John Eliot Gardner on DG. | |
| The eternal quandary From an epistemological point of view, the whole field of audio reproduction is fraught with a myriad of problems. Actually, it's a miracle that we can agree about anything! From the recording venue, the position of the microphones in the hall, th... | |
| An Audiophile's journey RWW--this is an old, tired topic that doesn't need to be rehearsed again here. And SNS has set the record straight.My earlier post was meant as a comment on the vicissitudes of audio enthusiasms, not as a comment on the intrinsic merits (though ma... | |
| The latest flavour of the month speaker Will the Spectron III (right now, panegyrics everywhere) go the way of the Bel Canto, or will it survive and thrive? What do you think? | |
| An Audiophile's journey My take on the popularity of SETs was that it was driven, at least in part, by the first several years of digital recording (whether that recording ended up on LP or CD is beside the point). The first several years of DDD were atrocious: digititis... | |
| The eternal quandary John Atkinson and others have demonstrated that a high percentage of "popular" recordings issued nowadays are highly compressed. This is the work of the mixing/mastering engineer, and this is how that person wanted them to sound and to be released... | |
| The eternal quandary Mike--I totally agree, but as you say, it's a mental trick that may be easier for some of us than others. Even if one starts out a session in mental mode #2, something can happen that jolts you out of it. That's the experience that started this th... | |
| 2 channel cd player xlr $2000-&3000 used or.... At the risk of sounding like a broken record (er, sorry): Bryston BCD-1. XLR outs, right in your price range, superlative sound... | |
| What's too hot? operating temp Bryston amp God to the Bryston owners' site on AudioCircle. There have been threads on precisely this topic. |